Eyam Primary School celebrates the installation of its solar panels

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00:00Welcome to Eve Church of England Primary School. We'd like to especially thank

00:05Gonzalo Ahmed who visited the school previously after trekking to the South

00:09Pole as part of raising the profile of climate challenge. We are the head pupils

00:14and our role is to help visitors understand what makes the school a special place to learn.

00:19Thank you for joining us today to celebrate our achievements. We are proud to be able to use the

00:26sun and solar energy to help generate electricity for our school. I'm the citizen leader Eve. We hope that by our actions we can set an

00:35example to others that small schools can be an agent of change for the climate

00:39and the sustainability of the planet. I am the eco lead at school. We are an eco

00:45school and have achieved the Green Flag Award. This means we focus on

00:49biodiversity, energy, the school grounds, waste, water, marine sustainability,

00:56transport, well-being and global citizenship. This year as well as

01:00learning about energy we are celebrating the importance of bees and how they

01:05pollinate our fruit and vegetables and we are wanting to reduce single-use

01:09plastic throughout promoting non-wrapped snacks. Solar photovoltaic systems or

01:15solar panels allow schools to generate their own electricity using sunlight as a power source.

01:21When the sun shines onto a solar panel, energy from the sunlight is absorbed by

01:27the PV cells in the panel. This energy creates electrical charges that cause

01:32electricity to flow. Thank you very much.