RSPCA tells schools ‘no pets’
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Pet Games | No Comments »The classroom guineapig faces extinction if schools follow new advice from the RSPCA urging an end to the tradition of taking the natural world into schools. School pets may be harmed by constant touching from excited pupils and poor living conditions, ...
Respect for diversity
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »At St Joan Antide School Primary School in Gudja, teachers and students were very proud to host their pets earlier this year to mark St Anthony the Abbot's Day. All kinds of animals were the protagonists of this memorable two-day event, ...
Video conferencing links pupils
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »Pupils in Years 4 and 5 at De La Salle College, Cottonera, recently used a Skype link, Internet and webcam to share ideas and play with counterparts at St Thomas of Canterbury, Chester. Apart from sharing the outcomes of activities they ...
Lessons animals teach us
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »St Joan Antide School, Gudja, recently organised a two-day long Pets' Day coinciding with the feast of St Antony the Abbot, during which pupils brought to school their pet dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, mice, birds, fish, turtles, various reptiles, and ...
Pets Day at San Anton School
Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »San Anton School, L-Imselliet, recently organised a Pets Day for its junior classes on the feast of St Anthony the Abbot, patron saint of domestic animals. Pupils excitedly brought their pets to school and turned the junior sector common area into ...
Out in the fields
Monday, February 4th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »John Huxley explores 'Kangaroo Valley' on the Western Front, among the war sites and tranquillity of the Somme. Adrizzly mist hangs heavily over the muddied fields that seem to stretch forever across the flat landscape of northern France. Weekend shooters pursuing partridge flit in and ...
Out in the fields
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »John Huxley explores 'Kangaroo Valley' on the Western Front, among the war sites and tranquillity of the Somme. Adrizzly mist hangs heavily over the muddied fields that seem to stretch forever across the flat landscape of northern France. Weekend shooters pursuing partridge flit in and ...
Annual Woodbury pet day enjoyable
Friday, February 1st, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »Pupils from Geraldine Primary School, Geraldine High School and Woodbury School joined in the fun showing off about 85 animals ranging from rabbits, fish and hens, to goats, dogs and plenty of lambs. Principal Marie King said the pet ...
Pets put their best foot forward at show
Friday, February 1st, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »Show president Kathryn Bennie said entries were up on last year and this year rosettes had been introduced for animals and their owners. "We also introduced some new sections, including a flower arrangement in a creative container, which was ...
Long innings ends
Friday, February 1st, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »The schools 34-year mainstay is stepping down at the end of the year. It was never intended to be 34 years, he said. Fabian said as an ambitious young teacher in Nelson, he had sought to complete his country service without which ...
