THE Scottish Government Minister for the Environment was impressed with the awareness of the P5/6 class at Cowdenbeath Primary School on outdoor issues when she visited the school last week.

Local MSP, Annabelle Ewing, was accompanied by the Minister for Rural Affairs and the Natural Environment, Ms Mairi Gougeon, when she called in at the Broad Street school.

Ms Ewing said: “Earlier in the year, I had a really interesting visit to Cowdenbeath Primary when I spoke with the then P5/6 class about their concerns about the environment - local, national and international.

“Following on from that visit, I was so impressed by the level of engagement, knowledge and interest shown by the young people that I met that I arranged to return, this time accompanied by my colleague, Mairi Gougeon, the Minister for Rural Affairs and the Natural Environment.

“Mairi was delighted to come along and was able to answer some excellent questions from the pupils, whose interest in the topic has clearly not waned in the slightest".

Added the MSP: “It is absolutely evident to me, from my engagement with this class and others, as well as the determination we have seen in the school strikes from climate action, that young people care very deeply about the threat to the future of our planet and they desperately want to see adults actually doing something about it!

“I want to thank the pupils and their teachers for welcoming Mairi and I into their class and I hope that we were able to answer at least some of their questions.”

Ms Ewing and Ms Gougeon are pictured with pupils from P6/6 at Cowdenbeath Primary School.