The P7s explored pond life with the help from OPAL Community Scientist and The Conservation Volunteers. They discovered that caddisfly and dragonfly larvae are found in healthy pond water. Snails and worm-like animals indicate that the pond water might be polluted. They also had the opportunity to discuss and create a pond life food chain. In addition the children were introduced to various types of lichens. Next week the children will use their knowledge of lichens to explore air quality.
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Borestone pupils go on a worm hunt!
Primary 2L braved the cold weather and enjoyed taking part in a worm survey with the help from OPAL Community Scientist and The Conservation Volunteers. The children and our panda, Bamboo, learned lots about worms.
“There are different types such as red, stripy and pale worms” (Mani).
“A baby worm comes from an egg in a cocoon.” (Jade).
“Adult worms have saddles.” (Anna)
Daniel S and his group had a great time finding 19 worms!
Look out for our results on to the OPAL website!
Fantastic Friday!
Four lucky pupils from Borestone took our panda Bamboo and Doune Nursery’s panda to Edinburgh Zoo. Both Tian Tian and Yang Guang came out to say hello! The children learned that Edinburgh Zoo grows bamboo for the pandas eat. They were also intrigued to find that flamingos tend to stand on one leg.
A tiring but fantastic day was had by all on Friday!
Mini pandas meet the giant pandas!
What a busy Friday I had! My fellow panda friends from
Borestone, Middleton Park and St. Ninian’s and some pupils visited Edinburgh Zoo to learn about the giant pandas and find out about the work being done by the staff at the zoo to protect and research about them. They were lucky enough to see both Yang Guang and Tian Tian. They learned that us Pandas can eat 40kg of bamboo a day and that there are two separate enclosures as they might not get along if they we’re put in together!
We hope the pupils have been inspired by their visit to go back to their schools and find out more about conservation issues in their local environments. I’m looking forward to seeing citizen science activities they’re taking part in; collecting data and using that data and passing it on to scientists. Some schools will be using the OPAL surveys to learn about air, soil and water quality in their school grounds and others will be using the BRISC surveys to investigate biodiversity.
Get blogging so I can read all about it!
Patrick the Panda
We’re at the zoo!
Patrick the panda is really excited about today! He is going to meet is friends from Doune, Borestone and St Ninian’s. He can show them Tian Tian and Yang Guang who live at Edinburgh Zoo.
Introducing Bamboo the Panda!
At last after a few nameless days Borestone Primary’s Panda has been named! The name has been chosen from over 200 ‘Name our Panda Competition’ entries. Twelve pupils from various classes came up with the wonderful name of BAMBOO. Bamboo is excited about his trip to Edinburgh Zoo on Friday and can’t wait to meet the other pandas.
The Panda Reporters are on the move!
Strange sightings were reported at Glasgow Airport this morning… 5 shadowy figures, each carrying a stick of bamboo were spotted at the arrivals gate in the early hours of the morning!
Have you seen them?
Where are they going?
They were carrying magnifying glasses, notebooks and pencils – looks like they’ve come here to find out what young people in Scotland are learning about our environment!
