Responsible Pet Ownership

Bev McKean and her beautiful big, black Newfoundland (Newf), Hudson, visited the school on Monday to educate the students in responsible pet ownership. She delivers this program to lots of schools in the area as part of the NSW Responsible Pet Ownership Education Program.

The Program uses multimedia, role play, song and story to provide primary school children with a smorgasbord of stimulating activities to teach a wide range of concepts relating to responsible pet ownership.

The Program focuses on teaching students about dog safety incorporating:

• When dogs should be left alone
• Things we should not do to dogs
• How can you tell if a dog is happy, frightened or angry
• A safe way to approach and greet a dog
• What to do if approached by an unknown or aggressive dog.

The Program also introduces and develops the following concepts:

• Choosing an appropriate pet
• General welfare and husbandry
• The importance of identification and registration
• Confinement and housing
• Exercise and training.

This is a 4 minute video from Animal Planet telling you all about Newfs. Did you know they are a water dog and used to save lives in the water?

Please note this video will continue on with other dog breed presentations so you might need to refresh the blog page to get it back to the start.

There is a year 6 student from Mr Avery’s class in Cincinnati, USA,  called Amanda who has just got her very own blog and she is going to write about animals. Her blog is called Amanda’s Animal Blog   and even though she has just started perhaps some students from our school might like to visit it and leave a comment. I bet Amanda will enjoy this post from us.

Mrs Booth