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St Peter’s School Budleigh, Salterton
AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM TRANSFORMS THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT PIed Piper & MIDEA TO THE RESCUE Midea and Pied Piper responded to this national news report by supplying and installing an air conditioning system completely free of charge. The system heats a classroom...
Case Study – Rural Devon Primary School
Project: Rural Devon Primary School Hardware: Midea Installed by Pied Piper Educational Resources Reporting Period: 13/01/2021 - 13/01/2023A small Devon school was selected to empirically monitor the cost-savings and environmental benefits that can be achieved through...
Academic Studies:
The impact of temperature on learning
There is a mountain of research in the area of the effects of temperature on learning, which all points to the same inescapable conclusion. There are some typical papers and news items below:
NASUWT STATEMENT
Excessive classroom temperatures are not only uncomfortable, but they are also a health and safety hazard, as excessive heat can aggravate existing medical conditions. Excessive heat in classrooms has also been shown in many studies to impact on pupils’ learning, with a 1°C increase in temperatures linked to a 2% decline in learning. The effects of extreme temperatures are even more striking when considering that each additional school day with a temperature in the 30s (°C) reduces pupil achievement by one sixth of a percent of a year’s worth of learning. Disadvantaged pupils also suffer up to three times the impact of excessive temperatures than other pupils.
“Thermal comfort”
Health & Safety executive (GOv.uk)
“Workplace Representatives Bulletin – Excessive Temperatures in the Workplace”
NASUWT- July 2024
“The School Year Is Getting Hotter. How Does Heat Affect Student Learning and Well-Being?”
Education Week – September 2022
“Overall effects of temperature steps in hot summer on students’ subjective perception, physiological response and learning performance ”
UCL- October 2020
“How Extreme Heat Affects Learning”
Stanford University – October 2020
“The Heat is On: Educators, Students Forced to Deal With Sweltering Classrooms”
NEA TOday – July 2018
“The effects of heat on student exam scores: Do high temperatures impact performance?”
FE News – November 2018
“Heat and Learning – HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series, HKS Working Paper No. RWP18-014”
Harvard (Kennedy School) – May 2018
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