Handy Helpers

This terms focus has been helping in the hard times.

A few groups of people in the senior room have been going off to different locations to lend a hand. For example; the girls who went to the SPCA on Friday last week.

Those girls (the year 7’s) went to fed some lambs and clean out a pig pen but when they got there it was much more than that.

When they walk in the door of the education room a friendly little dog came to greet them. The education manager (Richard) invited them in and they got to view a slideshow showing why the animals were there and a few interesting stories about some very special animals.

Once it was finished they got to go and look at some of the animals. There was some extremely loud dogs and some very cheeky rabbits. Now for the work. The pig pen was small and easy enough to clean. Just a bit of chucking the hay into the shelter.

The real challenge was the lamb. Once out of its pen it wa and the work was as easy as chucking some hay into the shelter. Now for the real work. Once the lamb was out of its pen it was off like a rocket and needed 5 minutes of cornering and chasing before it was in the stables like a good lamb. It glugged down its milk and was running up and down as soon as it was finished. We got a good photo and we were back in the education room to learn a bit more about animals before we left.

Big thanks to Lucy’s mother and grandad Anne Cochrane and Lindsay Nicoll.