to our special Scottish visitor –

Nounours!

We can’t wait to show Nounours all about our Australian heritage and the special things about our city of Sydney.

We are looking forward to Nounours learning about Australia and the AllStars too

Nounours has already met Sandy our Scottish otter, as well as Koko Koala and Kanga & Roo. Lots of fun is on our way!

“Get set”

“GO!”

We’ve started training for our cross country carnival that will be held in May.

We huff and puff through two laps of the oval, and we time ourselves so that we can get faster and faster!

Sandy is showing the most improvement so far – she has wiped two minutes off her times already!

Who knew that an otter could run that far, and that fast?????     :0 

 Well done everone else – keep trying and improving your times     ;) 

Everyone brought in their favourite soft toys so that Sandy would have lots of friends to help him celebrate, and people also bought along some lollies, cakes, drinks and food.

We added some music and had a fun afternoon!

PS - Sandy has her own blog too, pop over and have a look

Sandy, our otter from Sandaig Primary School in Glasgow, had a go at doing the test as well  

She was happy with her efforts, tried as hard as she could, enjoyed the experience but is glad that it is over for another year.

Here are some photos we took of our clever otter friend 

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Even Sandy wore a hat today! First he had on an akubra bush hat, then he posed under the extra special “75th Anniversary Harbour Bridge Hat”.

We ate lots of chocolate eggs, played soccer and Laser Hockey and are completely ready for a two week holiday – see you around the 24th April. 

Today when we got to school we received a little yellow package from the office. Guess who was inside – SANDY!!!!!! Sandy is a little brown otter, sent by our blogging friends Class P6 S/J and their teacher, Mr Johnston, from Sandaig Primary School in Scotland.

Everyone was very excited to finally see Sandy, it seemed we had been waiting for ages. We took photos of Sandy and us, everyone wanted to hold her to say “Hello”.

A big THANK YOU to Mr Johnston and the Sandaig P6S/J kids, we promise to take care of Sandy and show her all around our school and community.

Sandy is extremely cute and cuddly. We didn’t realize that otters had such large whiskers and we LOVE the fluffy white fur around her mouth.

Sokeina and Momtahina have found out some information about Otters:

• otters have long, slim streamlined bodies of grace and flexibility

• they have short limbs

• they have webbed paws

• they have sharp claws to grasp prey

• fish are their primary diet

• some otters eat small mammals and birds

• otters have special adaptations to live in very cold waters

We look forward to sharing pictures with you and Skippy. Thanks again.