This year, our nursery staff invited their families to our Wee Green Space for a very special Christmas celebration. Everyone sang around the campfire, toasted marshmallows, decorated the trees in the forest, made natural decorations, enjoyed hot chocolate and mulled wine and played in the forest. Pasu loved the whole experience!
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Bug Hunt
Pasu loved his bug hunt with the Nursery children at Middleton Park. Thanks to all the parents who joined in the hunt!
Primary engineers at Middleton Park
Primary 6 and Pasu the Panda invited Ian the engineer from Subsea Seven to teach us more about engineering and using materials. We experimented, worked in teams and perserved when things got tough. We used trial and error and made adjustments to our designs.
We all made tanks using our knowledge and understanding.
A full report from our ‘Primary Engineers’ coming soon…
Pasu enjoys riding on a space buggy!
Pasu travelled to Fife to share our involvement in the Primary Engineering North-East finals. He had a fantastic day travelling by train to Fife and then enjoyed a journey on our entry which was a space buggy.
Pasu travels to his home country
Pasu travelled to China as part of an educational trip with the Head Teachers of Oldmachar Cluster Schools. Over ten days, Pasu covered 12,000 miles visiting many schools, different cities and exploring the fascinating country of China. All his new Chinese friends thought it was fantastic that a school in Scotland would have a panda as their mascot. Here are a few photos of Pasu – more will follow!
Pasu searches for earth worms
Pasu Sugelan helped the pupils at Middleton Park School to take part in the Soil and Earthworm Survey. Opal Scientists ran the session and the results will be uploaded to their website later this week. Watch out for more information.
Pasu visits our Forest Art Gallery
Our Nursery Children and Primary 6 pupils worked together to create a beautiful art gallery in our Wee Green Space. They worked with our Artist in Residence, Graeme Milne to create their art work. You can view their work on this film – look out for Pasu!
Introducing Pasu to Kale!
During British Science Week, we did some outdoor cooking with kale from our school garden. Pasu loved it!
Panda travels!
Patrick the Panda had a great time today at Seoul’s massive science centre. He learned lots about how science had helped people all over the world and how it could help solve problems.
He learned about wind power and how it can be used to make renewable energy. He also met the inventor of an electric kit car. Electric cars can be powered by renewable energy and can help tackle climate change. This is because they don’t produce as many greenhouse gases as cars that are powered by fossil fuels. The inventor hopes his electric kit car will become popular in Korea. He made it himself in the science centre’s make lab.
Patrick went all panda-eyed when he saw this man zipping about in Seoul. He thinks was an in line skate. He’d never seen it before but if people left their cars behind and used this to travel short distances then it could also reduce emissions. Walking would be even better but Patrick is a bit of lazy Panda at times!
Panda Reporter visits Korean schools
Patrick the Panda visited a middle school in Korea today. In Korea children go to middle school from ages 13 to 15. There are also elementary schools for younger children and high schools.
Patrick was delighted to see that many of the posters around the school were all about climate change. The posters were really colourful and were written in English too. 
The school were working hard to reduce the energy they were using too. It was another cold day in Seoul but the heating in the school was limited to just 18 degrees Celsius. This is national policy for all schools and government buildings to help tackle climate change.
Patrick also spotted that the school uniforms included a nice tartan design. Tartan seems to be quite popular in Korea – some of the teachers also had tartan ties.
Patrick is also amazed that there are not more traffic jams in Seoul. You would hardly think that 25 million people in the city. Most use the excellent metro system and buses to get around. This is just one of the other ways Korean’s are trying to protect the environment.
