Tuesday the 4th April 2006 was the date for a very interesting day for the Year 8 pupils at King’s Grove. We invited a visitor, Mark Titterton from Wildlife on Wheels, to conduct a series of workshops in the drama room. This was to enhance classroom learning about Brazil as part of this unit of study in Year 8.
Students were able to experience first hand a range of animals native to the Amazon rainforest. Teachers and students got the chance to touch and hold certain creatures. Mark was terrific and inspired a number of students. Billy Ledwards, a Year 8 student said about Mark, ‘You have inspired me to be like you, working with animals’.
Mark gave demonstrations of how the native people of the rainforest would catch their dinner, using blow pipes and darts. He also explained the food chain from the ground dwelling millipede to the effective predator, the boa!
Mark has been invited back next year, perhaps to inspire the next group of Year 8 students, currently in Year 7. We are very much looking forward to that!
Click on the small pictures to the left to view larger ‘interesting’ images from the day.
Mr Benbow
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