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 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.
Wednesday 23rd April 2015
Primary 3 in St Catherine’s had a special delivery, we were curious to see what was inside.
We were surprised at the arrival and so excited to teach the panda. We decided to call the panda Fluffy Chi Chi. We have been taking it in turns to take Fluffy on an adventure and he even came to make his First Holy Communion on Saturday
Fluffy Chi Chi helped us to collect worms as part of an OPAL survey and we created out own worm world.
Fluffy Chi Chi is having so much fun and been to lots of parties.
After a busy morning at Lochdonhead and Tobermory, Panda Reporter travelled on the amazing journey across the island. The bus driver told him lots of facts about the island along the journey.
He was very excited to see the remains of a bronze age crannog – a house built on a man made island in the middle of a loch – on the road to Fionnphort.
“After taking the short journey to Iona, I met Mrs. Elwis the head teacher at Iona Primary and the lovely children who told me about the exciting things they have been up to – including holding their own mock election, becoming junior tour guides to Iona Abbey and learning about Mandarin and Chinese New Year.
In the afternoon I visited Bunessan Primary and heard about all the exciting things they have been up to. They have promised to teach me about the local environment and habitats around their school and village. ”
Panda reporter hopped on a ferry to the beautiful Isle of Mull on Friday to visit boys and girls in the primary schools there and find out about the environment on Mull.
“What a great journey onthe ferry – I was watching out for dolphins or whales but I only saw a few gannets!
The nearest primary school to the Craignure ferry port is Lochdonhead Primary School. There I met the boys and girls of Lochdonhead and Ulva. I told them all about the giant pandas in Edinburgh and asked them to teach me about some of the bugs and animals that live on Mull. after spending the morning there I caught the bus to the biggest village on the island, Tobermory. The bus took a long time – I hadn’t realised how big Mull was!”
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!
Hi everyone! I’ve just arrived at Queen Street in station. It’s very early and there weren’t many people around… but I did see a fox running across George Square. He didn’t want to chat and seemed in a hurry though!
The first train goes to a place called Oban so I think I’ll head there and find out about the environment and conservation up there.
– Panda Reporter
Borestone Primary School have had a busy two ‘biodiversity’ weeks. Primary 5 conducted a study to find out exactly what has been going on!
They discovered that some pupils have been creating bug hotels to keep wildlife safe. Others have been finding out how to encourage bees, birds and butterflies to come to our garden. There have been a lot of plants, herb and trees planted around the school. After learning how to prepare land to grow potatoes P7 have successfully created Borestone’s first potato field. Now we need to wait and see if our hard work pays off!
The pupils from Borestone know that it is dangerous to look at the sun directly so they got creative! They kept their eyesight safe during the Solar Eclipse by making and using pinhole viewers. The children were excited to see this natural rare phenomenon. David from P4/5 exclaimed “I was happy to see my first solar eclipse.”
During British Science Week, we did some outdoor cooking with kale from our school garden. Pasu loved it!
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