This week, we welcomed some rather special visitors to Nursery!

Tom and Alex from https://www.tomstalkingreptiles.co.uk/ came to tell us all about animals that hatch from eggs and, incredibly, they brought some of these animals with them for us to meet!

Here we are doing some super listening as we waited to meet the animals.  We listened very carefully to the instructions so we knew how to hold the animals carefully and safely.

First, we met Pogo the Stick Insect, who likes to walk up everyone’s arms!

Then we met Wally the Hissing Cockroach, who doesn’t actually hiss anymore as he’s so used to humans.

Next, we met Harry the Tortoise…🐢

We then met Rosie the Tarantula! Mrs Morris was very brave and stayed very still when meeting her.  Only the grown-ups were allowed to hold Rosie – can you remember why?

Tom and Alex then brought out two large black cloth bags…can you remember what was inside the bags?

That’s right! Two snakes…🐍🐍- one was brown and black, while the other was orange and yellow.

I believe one of the snakes was called Jackson and the other was a corn snake – but as you can see, I was a little distracted at this point in the session and forgot to write all the details down! 😁

We then met Tamara the Bearded Dragon who was originally given away as a raffle prize.  Luckily she was rescued by Tom and Alex and is now living happily ever after.

Finally, we met Nahla, the Leopard Gecko – isn’t she beautiful?

We had such a super morning meeting these incredible reptiles and we were so proud of how well the children listened to the instructions and treated the animals with care and respect.  Tom and Alex were so knowledgeable and really helped us all to get a better understanding of these remarkable creatures!

We took lots of photos during the session which you will be able to see on Seesaw over the Easter holidays so do remember to log on…

And finally, we would like to say a huge thank you to our wonderful PTA who funded this visit.