Join us for a week of online learning and fun as we celebrate all things energy! The week will take place from Monday 24th March – Friday the 28th and we are encouraging all primary and secondary schools currently working on any of our themes to take part – even if your school has already been awarded the Green Flag for Energy, participation will count as a maintenance action for this theme.
Each day, new activities will be released here on the Festival of Energy webpage for classes to enjoy. There will be daily live interactive webinars aimed at senior primary school students (but all welcome!) at 11:00am and there will be a Secondary School only Careers talk on Thursday at 1pm. We will finish the week on Friday with a dedicated Irish language day.
Check back for brand new resources including primary craft-along video tutorials, a quiz, and more!
Join us for as many Festival of Energy activities as you like, at times convenient to you, throughout the week. All the activities will count towards awareness raising actions for your Green Flag, and you can share your Festival of Energy activities with us on social media by tagging @GreenSchoolsIre, @EirGrid and using #FestivalOfEnergy, to be in with a chance of winning spot prizes for your class!
We can’t wait for you to join us for our ‘Festival of Energy’!
The full timetable
Monday 24th , 11am: Eirgrid our Energy Theme sponsor telling us all about the Irish Energy Grid and their projects
Tuesday 25th, 11am: A brief history of Energy with Rob Nelson the Green Schools Energy Theme co-ordinator
Wednesday 26th, 11am: Dawn Keegan from Capital Power tells us about Solar Power
Thursday 27th, 11am: Marcos Byrne from Wind Energy Ireland tells us all about Wind Energy
Thursday, 27th 1pm: Eirgrid careers in Energy Talk (for Secondary School Students)
Friday 28th, 11am: Green Schools Irish Language Officer tells us all about Energy through the Irish language.
Welcome to our very first Festival of Energy!
Monday
Let’s get started!
Today we have two new resources for you : the Vampire Hunt and the Energy Pledge lightbulb activity… see video below for step by step instructions!
And we will be hearing about Ireland’s Energy grid today from Eirgrid- why not check out their Smartgrid Dashboard to learn more?
Tuesday
Today Rob will give us all a little history of energy.
Enjoy the Static Jump video and resource!