{"id":312,"date":"2017-05-09T14:51:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T14:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk\/bio-equalityanddiversity\/?p=312"},"modified":"2023-12-08T14:23:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T14:23:32","slug":"bring-your-kids-to-work-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/2017\/05\/09\/bring-your-kids-to-work-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring your kids to work day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We held the Biology Department\u2019s second \u201cBring your kids to work day\u201d this week. Thursday 4<sup>th<\/sup> May was an inset day so local school children had the day off school.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Will Cresswell provided a fantastic schedule for the sixteen kids, who took part in a miniature Bioblitz. Based in the Bell-Pettigrew museum, they went on a hunt to document the species inhabiting the Bute gardens. They set a mist net for passing birds, catching a goldfinch and a blue tit, which they watched getting ringed for re-identification. They set pitfall traps for invertebrates \u2013 and found woodlice, ants, caterpillars and flies. Field guides were consulted and overall they recorded 46 species. They also took the chance to investigate their specimens more closely under microscopes, discovering hidden details such as the mite on a dead bumblebee! And to top it all off they put together a PowerPoint presentation highlighting the \u2018best bits\u2019 to show their parents in one of the Bute lecture theatres. A lovely way for our kids to have a day at the Department!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7333\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/bring-your-kids-to-work-day-1.png\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/bring-your-kids-to-work-day-1.png\" data-orig-size=\"582,437\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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=\"bring-your-kids-to-work-day-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" 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Thursday 4th May was an inset day so local school children had the day off school. Prof. Will Cresswell provided a fantastic schedule for the sixteen kids, who took part in a miniature Bioblitz. Based in the Bell-Pettigrew museum, they went&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edi-initiatives","category-equality-diversity-and-inclusion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/bring-your-kids-to-work-day-5.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}