This term, our Nursery children are learing all about animals, and this week they had a very special visit from Tamsin Richards, a local vet nurse.

She brought Mrs Neve and Mabel the dog with her and showed the children how to perform a basic check up. The nursery children watched closely as Tamsin checked Mabel’s heartbeat, eyes, nose and mouth. They were reminded that permission must be asked before petting any dogs in public – not all dogs are as friendly as Mabel!

The children listened carefully and learnt all about the different spaces in the vets surgery. They saw pictures of where Tamsin works, learnt about what all the different machines and equpiment were for and found out why dogs and cats are kept seperately!

Then the children were able to try out some of the equipment from the vets. They used a real stethoscope to find their heartbeats, had a go at bandaging each other up, tried on some of the protective gear and inspected some themometers.

There are definitely some future vet nurses in this nursery!

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