Transform Schools

Transform Grand Prix

The first ever ‘I Love my environment Grand Prix’ took place in summer 2008, at Darley Moor Race Circuit, near Ashbourne, in Derbyshire.

This national celebration event brought together 10 primary and eight secondary schools from Transform Schools across the country to compete against each other in electric kit cars, hoping to be crowned 2008 champions!

Those schools competing in the 2008 Grand Prix were awarded the electric kit cars as prizes in the Spring Term competition of ‘I Love My Environment’; a Transform Schools national initiative, supported by Balfour Beatty WorkPlace. The initiative aims to encourage pupils, through incentives, to improve their school environment by finding ways to tackle problems such as graffiti, litter and deliberate damage. It is also a curriculum resource which can help schools achieve national sustainability targets.

The event was run by Greenpower, who specialise in providing electric kit car racing for schools and who were established to promote engineering and technology as careers.

Feedback from the event was extremely positive and we look forward to reporting back from the 2009 event!