Antrim Primary

I thought it was a brilliant trip to go to the World of Owls in Randalstown.
There were all different sorts of animals like a donkey, lots of different
birds - especially owls, some big spiders, two giant millipedes, some fish
and a massive snake that could strangle you but thankfully it was in a
glass box.

There was a bird called Satan and if the women went in it would attack
them so the men have to feed it. Some of the owls had been very badly
treated by their previous owners and some were so badly injured they
couldn't survive in the wild so they had to go to the World of Owls. One
owl had been shot in the eye and now it has only one left.

The giant millipedes do not have a thousand legs like people think, they
have about 750. The female millipede is different from the male because it
is bigger and is a different colour. Do you know that the outer skin of a
millipede is made of the same material as our fingernails?

On our visit we saw three rabbits- two males and 1 female. They each had
their own hutch but the female rabbit kept trying to escape from her hutch
by making holes in her fence. The keepers think she kept trying to escape
to see her boyfriend who was in the next hutch.

A man called 'Big Mike' took all of us on a nature walk in the forest. On the
walk we spotted badger and deer trails. You can tell the difference
between a badger and a deer trail quite easily. On a deer trail the grass is
long and drooping over and on a badger trail the top of the grass is
broken off. We walked on and found a shadowy spot with lots of trees and
the deer camouflaged themselves to look like giant sticks and didn't
move. Further on along the path we found some animal prints which we
thought were made by deer.

After that we ended up back at the World of Owls. There was a shop it sold
rubber eggs, funny snakes, stickers, notebooks and little cards. There
was a small park with a slide and swings that we played in.
It was a great trip and everyone in P6 really enjoyed themselves!

Rachael McBurney

I was a hedge in a game called the bat the moth . When we were playing Christopher
came and started pulling at my skirt. Everyone else who wasn't a bat or a moth they
had to be a hedge like me. The person who was a bat had to say bat bat bat and the
moths had to reply moth moth moth. The bat had to catch the moth.
Nicola Wallace

We were playing a game and I was picked first for being a bat. I had to say bat, bat,
bat. There were four moths and they had to say moth, moth, moth the rest of the class
were the hedge they had to say hedge, hedge, hedge. The bat had to catch the moth.
It was fun!
Megan Sommerville

Mrs Wilson took a trip to P6 to tell us about animals and where they live.
We had some animals to stick on the board. She had toy birds in a box. She brought
them out and we had to guess what they were called. I recognised the robin's song.
Lee Herron

We listened to bird sounds.
The blue tit flits from branch to branch and the small groups call to each other.
The house sparrow is a small brown bird. The male bird has a black bib.
A robin has a red breast and face.
Phillip Walker & Ben Jackson

I had to place a blue tit near the hedge.
The blue tit is smaller then the great tit.
The blue tit is often seen hanging up side down.
Its nest is made of moss and wool.
Anthony Adair