Potato power wins pupils top prize
Published Date:
29 April 2008
Pupils at a village school will be spending a week in the West Country after scooping first prize for their work on environmentally-friendly energy.
Pilling St John's CE Primary School are the first ever winners of the Green School Awards for their project on global warming. The children used potatoes to power clocks and sold locally-grown produce at farmers markets.
The 24 youngsters and their teachers will spend five days at the Magdalen Project in Chard, Somerset, exploring the countryside and learning about the prehistoric past along Dorset's Jurassic Coast.
The Green School Awards, run by the Young Peoples Trust for the Environment (YPTE) and supported by TOTAL, threw down the challenge to primary school pupils across the UK to come up with the best project to show off their knowledge of sustainability.
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29 April 2008 7:12 AM
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