Rosie Rabbit

Rosie is our newest pet. She has lived in the Nursery Unit since just before Christmas 2008. During the week he lives in Bunny Mansion in the Nursery garden, and at weekends and during school holidays he goes home for a rest with Miss Calder, one of our Nursery Nurses.

Rosie loves playing with her ball and running upstairs and downstairs in her bunny mansion, and she loves chewing on carrots until her chin goes all orange!

The Nursery children love their new pet - they blow her kisses and make a great fuss of her. She is a very lucky bunny to have so many friends and to be so well looked after in our Nursery!

Rosie's rabbit mansion

Sadly Beautiful Biscuit Bunny is no longer with us. He became very old while he was with us, but he enjoyed his time making friends with all the children in the Nursery.

Guinea pigs

Smartie and Rosie the guinea pigs have lived in the Reception playground since Summer 2006. Smartie is brown and white and Rosie is brown. They have a cosy cage to live in and in nice weather they are allowed out to chew the grass in their run. The Reception children love to stroke the guinea pigs and take it in turns to go for a walk to the pet shop to buy their food. During school holidays the guinea pigs go and live with Mrs Christophi, one of our Learning Support Assistants.

They like going in their run.......

...and in their box in their run!

Goldfish

Goldfish usually swim around in their tank in Mrs Field's Woodpeckers' class in Reception, but they don't always remember to swim back to school after their holidays at Mrs Field's house! Their tank is cleaned regularly and the fish are fed every day - children enjoy watching them come to the top to gobble their food. Goldfish love watching the children around school and come to the side of their tank to say 'hello'!

Sabu the African lion!

Not surprisingly, Sabu does not live in school! Sabu was born in 1989 at Woburn Wildlife Park. We adopted him in 2007 and he lives contentedly in Colchester Zoo. Sabu is fed once a day on raw meat and bones for six days a week. Once a week he is not fed, which is designed to mimic his natural wildlife conditions where he would sometimes not be able to find food - and it also gives his stomach a chance to digest those bones!

Our snow leopard

Like Sabu, Kush the snow leopard is not a resident of our school! She lives at Paradise Wildlife Park in Broxbourne and was adopted by the Breakfast Club. Snow leopards are very rare and their natural habitat is the mountains of central Asia - but beware of them creeping up on you, as they are well known for their very quiet roar.

Broxbourne is only a few miles up the road so lots of children from Chase Lane have visited her and have seen our adoption certificate on display by her enclosure. Go and meet her!