Last Wednesday, the year threes were lucky enough to have an awesome experience at Cudgee Wildlife Park. For inquiry we are learning about animals and what groups they are classified in, so this excursion was to help us with our studies.

Cudgee was very interactive with many animals to hold and touch, such as snakes, lizards and even a hybrid animal which was a combination of a rat, possum & wallaby which is the second fluffiest animal in the world.

If you are not very confident in holding the animals, Josh and Zara are there to help and assist. Outdoors there are even more animals to explore. Each student was given a bucket of food to go around and feed the animals.

You can see the wombat be fed, pat a dingo, feed kangaroos and wallabies, see the peacocks put on a show, pat a koala and see huge sea eagles. Zara and Josh the zookeepers gave us facts about each animal, some of them are really surprising and will really help us in our inquiry lessons.

When we were on our way to Cudgee Wildlife Park, I imagined we would just sit in a room and hold a few animals but as you can see it was so much more and even better than I expected.

Many thanks to Cudgee Wildlife Park for having all of us Year 3’s for the morning, we loved it!

By Ava Gleeson, Room D2