Local School Green Homes Ideas Scoop Prize
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PHOTOCALL Thursday 12th June 11.30hrs at Drumlanrig Castle, Thornhill, Dumfries, DG3 4AG
SCHOOL children across the Borders and Dumfries and Galloway have been getting creative as entries piled in for a colourful competition to help their school go green.
Property experts Buccleuch John Sale New Homes have been asking budding artists at primary schools across the south to design a poster showing an environmentally friendly home of the future.
Buccleuch John Sale are delighted to announce today, Thursday 12 June 2008, the winner of this competition which attracted entries from 16 schools including small rural ones like Caddonfoot to large Dumfries primary’s like Calside.
Laura Milliken a Primary 5 pupil from Calside Primary School in Dumfries is the Green Key Homes competition winner.
Laura has won a bang up to date lap top computer and design package for her classmates and school and a great short break holiday for her to enjoy with her family at Centre Parcs.
Laura also won a great day at Drumlanrig Castle for herself and her classmates.
The prizes will be presented to Laura and her school at Drumlanrig Castle at 11.30hrs on Thursday 12 June 2008.
Flora Howie the Head Teacher at Calside Primary said “The children thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the ECO House competition. It helped to raise their awareness of green issues and gave them the opportunity to develop their creative ideas. I feel it inspired their imagination and I am really proud of their efforts. As a school we are delighted that Laura has actually won.”
New Homes sales manager Anne Mitchell based in Galashiels said she was overwhelmed by the number of children and schools which had taken part in the competition. The Buccleuch John Sale office was flooded with entries.
She said: “No one can underestimate the part we all have to play in helping shape our environmental future and what better place to start than with the next generation.
“Buccleuch John Sale New Homes are helping do their bit for the environment by planting trees to help offset carbon emissions in every new home we sell but we want to do more.
“We want to encourage youngsters to play a part too and it is clear from this competition that our children really do care about the environment and think hard about what we all can do to help it.”
Anne said that “Laura has a great imagination and showed some real innovation in sketching out her ideas for a green home of the future. She even had a device that harnesses the power of snoring to warm the electric blanket.”
“Perhaps Laura has a future as an architect?”
Mercat Cross the property development company based in Edinburgh and currently building in the Scottish Borders have also been closely involved with the competition and have been prize sponsors. All the schools that entered the competition will be getting an Owl Powermeter to help them monitor electricity use in their classroom. These have been sponsored by Mercat Cross and supplied at cost by Home Energy Savings (www.homeenergysaving.co.uk).
A Director for Mercat Cross said that “he was delighted to support this competition and were impressed with the childrens’ fantastic ideas and vision. The company has an exciting and innovative approach with every development they undertake and environmental considerations are at the core of their planning and design decisions.
Hazel Davies, marketing manager for Cruden Homes (east), who provided the photoshop design software prize says: “We’re delighted to have been sponsors of this great competition and help provide the participating classes with their Owl Powermeter.
“Like Buccleuch John Sale, Cruden Homes is always looking for ways to be more environmentally friendly and the ‘Green Key Homes’ competition is a fantastic way to get children involved in a very topical issue.
In addition each school will be getting a native tree sapling from Alba Tress for their school grounds.
Anne for Buccleuch John Sale said that “this has been a great competition for raising environmental awareness in the home. A very big thank you to all the schools that entered.”
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For more information:
on the photocall contact Richard Williamson Buccleuch Group 07712 001 091
At Buccleuch John Sale we know that more people are becoming concerned about their impact on the environment and we are taking these concerns seriously currently undergoing a major review of our "green credentials" as we know that it matters to many of our customers. We aim to be the UK's first carbon neutral estate agency and chartered surveying business.
Our New Homes division has introduced our unique "Green Key Homes" scheme. For every home we sell we guarantee to make a contribution to help offset your carbon emissions for one year.
Buccleuch John Sale, with offices in Peebles, Kelso, Galashiels and Dumfries, offers clients a broad spectrum of property services from agricultural and residential buying and selling and lettings to architectural services and commercial leases. This long established Borders brand has a national presence through the Buccleuch network. Buccleuch John Sale, with offices in Peebles, Kelso, Galashiels and Dumfries, offers clients a broad spectrum of property services from agricultural and residential buying and selling and lettings to architectural services and commercial leases. This long established Borders brand has a national presence through the Buccleuch network.
Mercat Cross (Tel 0131 226 6510) is a property development company based in Edinburgh, currently building in the Scottish Borders.
The company has an exciting and innovative approach with every development they undertake and environmental considerations are at the core of their planning and design decisions. From the selection of building materials to the construction of greener waste and water solutions for their homes, they appreciate that being environmentally aware and sympathetic in their approach impacts directly on peoples lives and on their pockets - for example their water and waste solutions at Whitsomehill mean a significant reduction to Council Tax for their home owners.
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