Local Schools

Schools education programme

In 2003, npower renewables teamed up with energy education experts CREATE to provide schools in Rhyl and Prestatyn with the opportunity to find out more about the North Hoyle project and the wider environmental picture of which it forms a part.

Under this initiative, pupils from some 20 primary and secondary schools have been taking part in workshops designed to help young people understand the impact of climate change, and the contribution renewable energy generation and energy efficiency can make in combating it.

At the schools workshops, the children have been learning how they can ‘do their bit’ to help secure a sustainable future by being energy efficient both at home and in their school.

Sandy Carter from CREATE says "this schools project has been well received by both pupils and teachers. For the young people, as "our adults of tomorrow", they have been involved in discussing real life issues which directly affect them and their next generation. For the teachers, they have found that the three themes of climate change, energy efficiency and renewable energy have helped them meet some of the National Curriculum criteria in subjects such as Science, Geography, Citizenship and Education for Sustainable Development".

Schools drawing competition

Pupils at junior schools in Rhyl and Prestatyn were invited to take part in an art competition run by npower renewables to have one of the thirty wind turbines at the North Hoyle Offshore Wind Farm named after them.

Children were invited to draw or paint a picture of the new offshore wind farm and to write a short piece about what they thought of this new way of creating clean, green electricity.

The winning children were invited to a prize giving ceremony at Rhyl Town Hall with their teachers and families. Each winner received a certificate showing the location of the wind turbine that has been named after them, as well as a model turbine and a goody bag.