Editor's Note: By Sarah Mott from Henry Cort Community College.  Sarah is one of the top 100 ‘green-agers' selected to take part in npower's Climate Cops programme and receive coaching from an array of green experts. The latest instalment of the £20 million programme kicked off last week in London with the npower ‘Green SOS Academy' a first of its kind workshop, specially created to help motivate 11 to 13 year old eco-aware students to turn their passion for the environment into positive action.

Chosen from hundreds of school entries, the 100 stand-out finalists are crusading to make changes in their local communities, including transforming recycling programmes, introducing outdoor classrooms and enforcing car-sharing schemes for drop-off parents.  

What an exciting day it was to find out that we had made the top 10 of the npower Climate Cops Green SOS competition!  We were all so thrilled that we were going to meet Piers Morgan and Konnie Huq and also we were going to have a day off school to meet them in person in London on the buzz day! All the hard work we did on the video we sent was all worth it!

We have named ourselves the Henry-Cort Recycling Green-agers, and we plan to improve recycling in our school.  We want to improve by providing bins all over the school, even outside and make posters advising people to recycle and how it will help our planet a lot.

We had so much fun at the npower Green SOS Academy! It was very hectic at first, getting up at 5:00am and getting to school for 6:30am. We arrived at the Globe Theatre at 10:00am and we were shown to our table. At that time people were coming out one by one telling us how we could help our environment and how all these workshops will help us make our final film.

When the first workshop started, we all had to introduce ourselves to our coach, Tim. But we all thought that the interviewing was the best workshop because none of us wanted to be interviewed and we were all laughing at each other.

Another great part of the day was when we all split up into groups of 3-4 and we all received a map and we had to work together to try and influence people into using their bikes. We were coming up with excellent ideas and all shared them at the end.

At 12:30 we were informed it was lunchtime and that when we finished there was a quiz to complete and there were two prizes to be won! Everyone was rushing around to all the posters trying to find the answers; it was all so competitive and funny at the same time and Anna Morey from our school won one of the prizes!

Also we each received a book called ‘Teach Your Granny to Text and Other Ways to Help the World' from Eugenie Harvey who works for a company called ‘We Are What We Do', and she was explaining that if you have a passion for something and work hard for it, you can make a difference!

When the day came to an end, everyone was very disappointed because we were all having so much fun and the time had gone so quickly. Everyone wanted autographs in their new notepads we had received and there was a big crowd around Konnie! Everyone felt so proud when we received our HD camera and £1,000 cheque, we all had big smiles on our faces thinking, we really do deserve this. At 4:00pm we got back on the bus and we started to make our way home. All of us were just thinking about the Outward Bound course in Lake District in November and how much fun we will all have and all the friends we will make!

We all have our fingers crossed, and are hoping that we will do very well in the final!