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The Nursery will close at 11.00am on Thursday 26th June. The last day for dinners will be Wednesday 25th June.

Please ensure that all outstanding dinner and snack monies are paid before the end of term

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Convent of Mercy Nursery, Folly Lane, Downpatrick, County Down
End of Term The Nursery will close at 11.00am on Thursday 26th June. The last day for dinners will be Wednesday 25th June. Please ensure that all outstanding dinner and snack monies are paid before the end of term
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Amazon Jungle - Miss King

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22nd May 2024

Today Amazon Jungle came to visit.  Catherine explained that the animals were reptiles and many would normally live in the hot climate of the desert.   We had the opportunity to closely look at them, pet them gently and learnt that they like to eat worms, crickets and mice.

Timothy the tortoise.

Marcel the chameleon

Wilbur the bearded dragon

Rio the python snake

Jellybean the gecko

Lily the frog

Alisha the tarantula 

Tegu - a bohaja meaning big red.

Fun facts!

A frog has seven steps to eat.

  1. look at what it is going to eat 
  2. hop to it
  3. land 
  4. open its mouth
  5. grab the fly with its tongue - (we practised )
  6. close their eye to allow them to swallow the fly

Rio the snake sheds his skin every 3 months

We knew that spiders have eight legs and now also eight eyes.  Catherine ask us to find our hearts and explained a spiders heart is down by their bottom and that their stomach in is in the their head!!!!!!!

Jellybean is a desert leopard gecko.  He has fingers to allow him to dig down into the sand therefore he does not climb up the wall

 
 
 
 
 
 
End of Term

The Nursery will close at 11.00am on Thursday 26th June. The last day for dinners will be Wednesday 25th June.

Please ensure that all outstanding dinner and snack monies are paid before the end of term