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Below are the ten finalist schools who have a chance to win £20,000 for their school!

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The Green SOS Finalist teams will now begin their adventure to help them develop their Green SOS project by attending:

The Green SOS Buzz Day in October to help them develop their communication, media and community engagement skills and knowledge

The first ever Green Outward Bound® Course for one week in November in the Lake District to help them develop their personal skills and leadership skills. At the same time they'll be exploring the wild outdoors and will be living with minimum environmental impact while building the

ir knowledge of climate change and living sustainably.
Check out the Outward Bound video here - www.npower.com/GreenSOS

Acklam Grange School, Specialist College of Mathematics and Computing - Acklam, Middlesbrough.

Supporting Teachers:

Jane Darbyshire (Deputy Head of Year 7), Sue Crane (Teacher), George Gardner (Teacher)

Green-agers:

Isabelle, Megan, Bethany, Leonie, Laura, Laura, Kate, Sophie, Katie, Chelsea.

We thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie and we love Carbon and Footprint!! We do hope that your Secret Agents and The Plan are enough to secure your hopes for Conservation Area! The Gang- Green poster is superb. Judging by your energy and enthusiasm this project should be a great success.

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Gang-Green. Conversation area. Topic: Eco garden/Outdoor.

Beauchamps High School - Wickford, Essex.

Supporting Teachers:

Kathryn Evans (Geography Second in Dept) and Paul Mower (Head of Year 7 and KS3)

Green-agers:

Josh, Abigail, Tommy, Jacot, Page, Daniel, Matthew, Caroline, Kirsty, Max.

The scene showing the front entrance of the park with the graffiti and the memorial plaques gave us goosebumps! Clearly a really worthwhile project which will benefit the local community. We liked the scientists testing the pH of the river to show it is polluted. Well done on your interviews of the local public.

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Environmental SOS. Topic: Park clean-up

Cantell Maths and Computing College  - Southampton, Hampshire.

Supporting Teachers:

Mr M Hewitt (Assistant Head) and Mrs C Brown (Class teacher)

Green-agers:

Yasmin, Jonathan, Jennie, Binay, Jake, Megan, Scott, Lewis, Daniel, Maddi.

Good topic - energy efficiency is a critical part of addressing global warming. Like you we are very interested to find out how much energy the students are using and on what – and how they will then reduce it! Monty Monitor and Billy Willy Waster were lovely – we bet they weren’t easy to film!

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Cantell Can Save - Monitors. Topic: Switch off.

Hellesdon High School - Norwich, Norfolk.

Supporting Teachers:

Miss Lovick (Learning Mentor) and Mr Rogers (Teaching Assistant)

Green-agers:

Keenan, Jack, Lewis, Raphael, Jay, Hannah, Ben, Gabriella, Lauren, Joseph.

10 out of 10 for enthusiasm. The talk show idea was a great way of putting your message across - good debate. We liked your ideas about how to tackle the plastic bag problem – we are interested to see how you get on with your Top 10 tips and advice for local shops.

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The Plastic Bag Project - Leaflet and dispenser. Topic: Plastic bag

The Henry Cort Community College - Fareham, Hampshire.

Supporting Teachers:

Sarah Kopitsa (Head of Geography) and Pippa Moore (Geography Teacher)

Green-agers:

Lloyd, Sam, Zach, Ndanji, Jack, Anna, Sarah, Isabelle, Emma Georgia

Well done on persuading us that your school needs recycling and composting bins. We thought you had carried out good research and interviews. You now have the task of making sure the recycling bins are used by all! Do you think you can make the school so aware that they change their behaviours at home too?

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Recycling at Henry Cort. Topic: Recycling

Hillcrest School, A Specialist Maths and Computing College  - Birmingham, West Midlands.

Supporting Teachers:

Miss C E Punchard (Head of Geography) and Miss J Davies (Science Teacher)

Green-agers:

Hannah, Jae-Eun, Sophie, Greta, Olivia, Jade, Laura, Georgia, Danielle, Charlotte.

We think this is a very well thought through project. We are confident your green-house will be a success. We liked the fact that the whole of Year 8 will be involved and that several subjects such as food technology and science will refer to the project. Good luck!

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Lean Green Gardeners - Greenhouse. Topic: Home grown.

The Hollins Technology College - Acccrington, Lancashire.

Supporting Teachers:

Liz Furey (RE/C2 Teacher) and Nagina Bibi (Geography Teacher)

Green-agers:

Liam, Luke, Laura, Ashleigh, Molly, Brooke, Lorna, Shauna, Naomi, Chelsea.

Great video – your bored faces convinced us you really do need that outdoor classroom. Super artwork too. Your human HELP sign set to music is genius! We get the message – you definitely need a pond! We are looking forward to seeing all the fruit, vegetables and flowers.

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"HELP" Learning Environment. Topic: Eco garden/ Outdoor classroom

Sacred Heart RC School - Redcar and Cleveland .

Supporting Teachers:

Miss Laura Daly (Geography Teacher) and Mrs J O'Donnell (Head of Geography)

Green-agers:

Natalia, Stephan, Safiah, Printha, Skye, Ruby, Ryan, Rory, Josh, Marcus.

We picked this project because we really want to see how you get on with a project to get more students to walk or cycle to school. This project will get everyone in the community involved in helping the environment (and get the students healthier too!). We are keen to see how the pupils will achieve the scheme and how successful it is.

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More buses plus walk/ ride to school. Topic: Traffic

St Albans High School for Girls - St Albans, Hertfordshire.

Supporting Teachers:

Stephen Ramsbottom (HOD) and Sally Gillman (Geography Teacher)

Green-agers:

Abigail, Kaya, Catherine, Alex, Harriet, Arabella, Danielle, Georgia, Pippa, Alison.

This video clearly explains why the students want to decrease their school’s food miles. Good research about food production and air miles! We love the news style – good acting SAHS! Your enthusiasm shows us that you are passionate about helping to save the environment.

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Food glorious food. Topic: Home grown produce.

Wymondham High School  - Wymondham, Norfolk.

Supporting Teachers:

Lisa Freaney (Geography Teacher) and Claire-Marie O'Hare (Drama Teacher))

Green-agers:

Annabel, Laura, Leah, Rebecca, George, Zoe, Danielle, Rachael, Rhiannon, Eleanor.

You have put across very clearly the litter problem and your aims and ideas for addressing it. Litter is a huge problem in the UK. An effective anti-littering campaign would be a great case study for all schools. We will be watching with interest!

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Save Our School from Litter. Topic: Litter.

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