I took up rowing back in Sep 09 and have loved the training - but it’s great to compete! I’m in the no. 3 seat (which for those initiated is 3rd from left as you are looking at photo) with woolly hat and grimace on face.

Hamish

It was a great experience - very different from teaching teenagers. My daughter had helped me make a battery from an old shoe box, with a little 6V battery and light. The children rubbed their hands and put them into the “molecules” to light the bulb - all very excited when it lit up.

One of the children asked why don’t we use solar more?, especially if it saves the planet from being dug up! How incisive children can be..

Signscape leads the way for Zero Power

Staff and students at Gordano School recently joined together in a united gesture to see if they could cope without the use of electricity for one day. Their Zero Power Day was structured around using as little electricity as possible, other than that which they generated themselves. The aims of the day were to highlight the impact that modern technologies have on the day to day running of a modern school and to see how much energy and money they could save by being more thoughtful about the power they use.

Various guests from local businesses and industry were invited in to demonstrate how their approaches and products were helping to create a more sustainable environment. Hamish Paterson and Jeremy Reeves were asked by the head of Design and Technology at Gordano if they would spend the day there, demonstrating how their Ecovision system of illuminated signs works. Hamish and Jeremy explained to students from Yr8 right up to A level how the PV cells generate the power for the signs and how the Infra Red detectors provide a more automated approach. Students learnt how the electricity is stored and then released only when it is needed.

The visit provided an interesting, alternative approach for students who got to see how what they study in the classroom is used in a real commercial context. Plans are being developed for another similar exercise in 2010 when Gordano hope to strengthen the links they have made with Signscape and other local companies.

Paul Wison

This was an article written by Paul Wilson of Gordano College (North Somerset) after Jeremy and I spent a day with students looking at alternative energy supplies. We had a great day - with some great ideas and questions coming from the students.

Thanks for everyone’s support this year - including our suppliers.

We are closing down Christmas Eve around lunchtime and will be back on January 4th 2010.  We wish you all a great Christmas and look forward to a more prosperous 2010 -from Hamish, Sue, Jeremy and all the Signscape team.

We have just produced a new Papyrus price list (contact sales for information) and we have just sold some of our solar powered units to Australia and New Zealand! In addition to all that we have some really exciting developments for next year that are now well under way - will keep you posted.

Speak to you soon..

Now she knows everything that her daddy does each day at work, she would like to come and visit the customers as well and would be happy to carry out the same help there. I explained that I show our customers the products or talk about projects - her retort - ”they can look on your website, then you can be home to read me a story”

Sophie only came in for about an hour and a half, before I dropped her to a friends house, but is now telling anyone that will listen “businessing is easy”. My wife wants to know as well….mmm.

RAL 9006 silver, RAL 9016 white, RAL 5002 blue

RAL 3020 red, RAL 6005 Green & RAL 9005 black

The following sizes are available: AO, A1, A2 & A3

For more information, please contact our sales office - we should be able to turn this new standard range around within 5 working days of receiving an order - let us know if we can be of help.

3-way Fingerpost

During our recent Open Days, it gave us a good excuse to take some photographs of our signs in and around the premises. We’ve updated our signs outside, by creating a “sign village” showing different types of signs, including Infocurve, Lynester Noticeboards, Post & Panel, BigBox, EcoVision Post & Panel and our Fingerposts (as above photograph).  You can see some of the others on our Flickr Gallery

We also hosted a very successful meeting for one of our customers who were able to utilise the premises for their meeting and receive product training at the same time.

If you would like to use our facilities to host a meeting, or see some of the examples of work we can manufacture and supply, please feel free to pop down.