Our Pets

At PEP we are so lucky to have many different kinds of pets which we care for. Our school pets are part of our big school family and they help make our school a special place. Many of our students are responsible for feeding, playing with and exercising our pets.

You'll find Toby in our school office. His job is to meet and greet visitors, welcome new students and their families and keep our school office ticking along. Toby also looks after the library and playground. He has a special bean bag in the library and everyone knows that it belongs to him. Each day Toby walks around our school and checks that we are all smiling and working hard. We enjoy sharing our learning with him.

Milo has been coming to school since he was a puppy. Milo is a great friend when you need a cuddle or someone to talk to. We have monitors that are in Year 5 and Year 6 who are responsible for him during the day. They walk him, make sure that he has fresh water and check that he is happy. Milo also works hard and has jobs that he is responsible for. He is always teaching us how to be safe around all dogs and has taught us about how to be a good friend, how to look after all pets and what to do to keep pets safe during an emergency.

Summer is growing up and is now almost two and a half years old. She loves to chase a ball on the school fields or sit for ages watching the guinea pigs. She is afraid of loud noises and lots of people crowding around her, but loves spending quiet time with students in Heidi’s office where you’ll find her most of the time. Her job is to make people smile and she loves to give licks to anyone who is feeling a bit sad or anxious.

Have you seen our chook run out by the Senior playground? We have 14 hens altogether and most of them are Brown Shavers. We cook some delicious meals with the eggs which are laid daily. Some days we can get up to 15 eggs, so we can also sell some to collect money for the hens' food. If you spot a random hen wandering around the school, that's Miracle. She's a great escape artist!!

Our gorgeous guinea pigs came to live with us at the end of 2023. They are lucky to have a cool animal pen which has loads of tunnels to play and hide in. A mixture of colours and sizes, these little furry creatures are cuddly, funny and always on the move. They love to eat the silverbeet that we grow for them in the garden. Guinea pigs make great pets.

We have two hives of bees in a special, purpose built shed where we can watch them go about their busy lives. We plant bee gardens to encourage the bees to collect pollen. This means we get a lot of delicious honey which can be bought at the school office.

QUAILS
Exciting news . . . in about 3 weeks time we are getting a covey of quails - little birds which lay tiny little eggs. We are very excited!

We are very lucky to have school pets and we look after them very well. When you visit our school make sure that you say hello to them and if you're lucky you might get a big smile or slobbery kiss from one of them.

    Click on this image to link to Milo's blog.  It is no longer used but has some cute puppy photos.