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Please download the Snow Day Social story below. We hope this is helpful to support your child’s understanding of why we are not in school tomorrow, Friday 1st February 2019.

Every Wednesday, some of the Seniors go to our Youth club. We go to Ferndown to use a youth centre. We play pool, play the wii, eat food, make loom bands, chat to our friends, hang out and play games in the hall, In the past we have even had a fun photo booth session! This week we went to the Horns Inn for our Christmas meal. There’s always lots of fun to be had.

Some of our pupils visited Santa in his grotto at our Christmas Fete!

Following our visit from Pete and his owls last Friday, we decided to make some paper owls and penguins in art on Monday.

On Friday 7th December 2018 we had a visit from Pete Whieldon and his daughter-in-law, Kate. They brought along two tawny owls, called Oakley and Wobbly. Wobbly is only 8 months old and learned to fly in our classroom last time he visited. They also had two barn owls called Dyson (about 18 months old) and Wiggy (about 5-6 years old). All four owls have visited us last year.

For the children who joined Lulworth in September it was their first encounter with the owls. Everyone had a go at stroking and holding the owls if they wanted to. We’d like to say a BIG thank-you to Pete, Kate and the owls we had a great time as always.

Yesterday a male 1 year old Royal python called Zo and a 4 month old leopard gecko, called Gizmo visited Lulworth class. We watched some information videos about where they live and what they like to eat, before the children were allowed to handle them. To begin with some of the children were a bit nervous, but by the end of the day they all touched or held or had the reptiles on their laps

Yesterday we had a 22 week old tri- coloured hedgehog come to visit the class.

We learned about where they live and what they eat.

The children enjoyed watching it run across the floor and sniff them. They all stroked the hedgehog and were surprised that it was soft, not prickly. They are only prickly when they are scared.

The hedgehog rolled into a ball, which the children found extremely funny.

Last Friday we had a visit from The Caring Canines.  They came into class with 6 dogs all of different breeds. We had two greyhounds called Frankie and Melo. Then we also had Fudge, Alfie, Willow and Freddie. The dogs interacted well with the class. The dogs showed us some tricks. The children stroked, walked and fed the dogs.

Then the dogs and the whole class had a class photo. Some of the dogs had Christmas hats on.

We invite them in yearly, to help with dog phobias. We currently have a student, who 3 years ago wouldn’t go anywhere near a dog as they were scared, they now have a pet dog at home. This is thanks to the work of the caring canines and the work we have continued to do throughout the past 3 years when out and about and encountering dogs.