A School powered by a wind turbine received an environmental award at a ceremony yesterday.
Cassop Primary School, County Durham, which won the World Wide Fund for Nature and Junior Education Challenge 2000 Gold Award, gets its electricity from a 50kw turbine installed last year, which also puts surplus power into the National Grid.
The school puts great emphasis on environmental education and has projects including a small nature reserve, a community recycling scheme, seed collections and litter picks.
It has received a cheque for £2,000, which to be spent developing its work, and headteacher Jim McManners won a Kenya environmental holiday.
The fund's head of education, Peter Martin, said: "We want to tell people about their success to help inspire other schools to take up the challenge.''
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