{"id":3862,"date":"2025-06-12T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/?p=3862"},"modified":"2025-06-12T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:47:43","slug":"p1-beekeepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/2025\/06\/12\/p1-beekeepers\/","title":{"rendered":"P1 Beekeepers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/839\/2025\/06\/12142106\/bees.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3863\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/2025\/06\/12\/p1-beekeepers\/bees\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/839\/2025\/06\/12142106\/bees.png\" data-orig-size=\"188,171\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bees\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/839\/2025\/06\/12142106\/bees.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/839\/2025\/06\/12142106\/bees.png\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3863\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/839\/2025\/06\/12142106\/bees.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/839\/2025\/06\/12142114\/bumble-bee.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3864\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/2025\/06\/12\/p1-beekeepers\/bumble-bee\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/839\/2025\/06\/12142114\/bumble-bee.png\" data-orig-size=\"152,167\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bumble bee\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/839\/2025\/06\/12142114\/bumble-bee.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/839\/2025\/06\/12142114\/bumble-bee.png\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3864\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/839\/2025\/06\/12142114\/bumble-bee.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>P1 Beekeepers<\/p>\n<p>What an exciting day Primary 1 had seeing the bees brought to them by the Beekeepers\u00a0 Mr. Shaw and Mr. McAnespie who delivered a talk that the children found fascinating.\u00a0 The gentlemen were very impressed by the knowledge the children had learned about their study of living creatures and especially their bee knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Then &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon we had to call the gentlemen back as we discovered a swarm of honey bees, estimated at over 30.000 hanging in one of our trees.\u00a0 They carefully took the honey bees away and relocated them.<\/p>\n<p>The beekeepers sent the staff and children a lovely email after their visit.<\/p>\n<p>From Mr P McAnespie<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday 11th June 2025 I, with a beekeeping colleague and fire fighter Leroy Shaw, had the privilege of attending the school to give a talk on beekeeping.\u00a0 To say I was impressed with the manners and beekeeping knowledge of the children we spoke to is a vast understatement.\u00a0 The children were a delight to converse with and whoever had taught the children about the subject of beekeeping, I trust, are very valued members of the staff and an excellent teachers. The children, though very excited to see the honeybees, were very well behaved and they and the teachers\/class assistants involved have to be commended.<br \/>\nThank you so much for the opportunity of speaking to your class at the school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P1 Beekeepers What an exciting day Primary 1 had seeing the bees brought to them by the Beekeepers\u00a0 Mr. Shaw and Mr. McAnespie who delivered a talk that the children found fascinating.\u00a0 The gentlemen were very impressed by the knowledge the children had learned about their study of living creatures and especially their bee knowledge. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/2025\/06\/12\/p1-beekeepers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">P1 Beekeepers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1518,604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-primary-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3865,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions\/3865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}