Animal Club Stall Update:

Clifton Hills Primary School Animal Club is having a very busy week this week, because, as well as our weekly meetings, we are running our Animal Club stall each recess and lunch time.At our stall we are swapping the wonderful beanie frogs, frog placemats and library bags that our members made for food and supply items that Animal Protection Society in Gosnells needs. 

Animal Club members working
hard on the stall

So far we have collected enough items to fill a large recycle bin and we still have about half of our goods left. We are very please with the response and support we have received from the school community and we know that all of the animals and people at the Animal Protection Society will be very pleased when we deliver the goods to them.

Strategy for Dog Management 

As part of the Healthy Dogs, Healthy Kids project, we will be presenting to the Shire Council our Draft Strategy for Dog Management within the Shire of Barkly.

Our strategy addresses issues such as population control, compulsory registration, malnourished and neglected dogs, humane euthanasia and community education.
 

In our most recent activity, our senior Animal Club members organized a Yr K-7 colouring competition. Because we have many Aboriginal children attending we have done Dot-Art colouring of animals. It has been a very popular activity in the rainy weather.

Here are some of the winners showing their efforts

Chicken Message Library Bags Update: 

They are finally finished and we must say, we are very pleased with our final products.Each of our library bags contains an important message we wish to share with other students and our school community, hence our idea to display them on library bags that others would get to see regularly. 

Amazing chicken bags

Some of the messages we used on our bags were:

• Take chickens out of cages and give them space to move.
• Free Range chickens have better lives.
• Free the caged chickens.
• Healthy chickens lay healthy eggs. 
• Free Range eggs come from happy chickens.
• Caged eggs come with a consequence.
• Treat chickens with the same respect you like.
• Chickens deserve a good life.
• If you were a chicken would you live in a cage? 

Cat Haven Visit

Michelle from Cat Haven came to visit us and brought one of her beautiful rescued cats with her. The cat was a Burmese and was very friendly. 

She told us about the need to neuter our cats so that they do not have too many kittens because one female cat can be responsible for creating about one million cats in only a few years because the babies have babies and then those babies have babies too and so it goes on.

This is a very serious situation because it means so many cats can never find a home and have to be put down.  Therefore it is much kinder to neuter them.

At the end we all got to hold and pat the cat. She was very friendly and was walking around the classroom while Michelle was speaking.