Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis gave students at Ansford School the green seal of approval on their "No Power Day" before the end of term.

The day without any power started at 8.30am prompt when all power within the school was ceremonially switched off.

Lessons followed a more creative theme than normal and lots of activities took place outdoors. The quad was a buzz of activity with withy weaving, spinning and lots of other crafts.

Michael Eavis presented the school with the national Green Flag Award, which gives the school eco status for its work on reducing its carbon footprint and for its environmental work.

He was present to watch the unfurling of the green flag and to see the school chickens freed into their new home in the school quad. They will be looked after by two students in Year 7.

Hot water for the essential staff tea and coffee was boiled in the quad over a charcoal burner, and baked potatoes and burgers were cooked over a charcoal barbecue.

Students learned a valuable lesson – not to take the power we use for granted, to be careful in what power we use and reduce our consumption as much as possible in order to best preserve the world's resources.