Sunshine from Newquay to San Pedro de Lloc

St Columb Minor Primary School near Newquay is taking their renewable energy programme across the globe. The school is committed to an International Curriculum so therefore has thought about how it can take its message to its global partners. An exciting addition to learning will be through a new link to a school called Escuela IE 80374  José Sevilla Escajadillo (JSE) in the small coastal town of  San Pedro de Lloc situated half way between the cities of Trujillo and Chiclayo in the north of Peru.

With income from generating renewable energy from the sun and matched by Plug into the Sun a budget has been put aside to install solar facilities in JSE to kick start the linking activities and have a focus of development in teaching and learning between the schools. JSE will be building solar powered showers, using solar cookers for their hot food and have a selection of teaching materials and resources developed for their classrooms.

These will be facilities that the whole community of San Pedro will be able to benefit and learn to adapt their lives to climate change. The Catholic University in Lima will be providing the expertise to local trade’s people who will build the facilities with locally supplied materials allowing further installations to be made throughout San Pedro.

This is going to give both sets of students from St Columb and San Pedro a brilliant programme to be involved in. Whole communities not just school students must be learning how to adapt to climate change, both in reducing footprints and responding to changes.