Emily Lewis is a teacher at Gwinear school in Cornwall and Fran Rickwood is the Eco-Coordinator at Okehampton primary school in Devon. Both are signed up on the Ashden South West LESS CO2 schools programme designed to support 16 schools from Devon and Cornwall to make practical changes to reduce their energy consumption over the course of a year.
In a short interview, they both shared their experience of the journey so far.
Emily starts by explaining what has been unique about the support of the LESS CO2 programme and describes the progress they have already made:
Fran talks about the challenge of making changes in a large primary school and shares her tips for a school starting out from a similar place.
Finally, Emily shares her top tip for engaging students:
