COLLINS CHRONICLE 📰🗞 🎂 Our new story focus, ‘Kipper’s Birthday’, has been a big hit! The children loved learning all about birthdays and taking part in lots of fun, hands-on activities. 🔢 In Maths, we explored the numbers 1, 2, and 3, focusing on composition and matching quantities to numerals using colourful numbered birthday cakes. We also celebrated Bonfire Night by making number rockets, showing fantastic number formation skills! 🫖 The new celebration role-play area was a huge success —

Kipper’s birthday week celebrations have started. He turns 17 on Thursday!🎈He still loves going on a walk and does a good job of keeping the pace for a little guy his age! Kipper mostly goes on sniffy walks now - he gets to stop and sniff as much as he wants! 💜 | Chi Chi Rescue Dog

Kipper’s 17th Birthday is tomorrow, so we thought it would be fun to share a picture of him from every year that he’s been part of our family. We adopted Kipper in January 2012. If you don’t know, he spent the first 4.5 yrs of his life as a laboratory test animal. He was rescued by the Beagle Freedom Project in November 2011 and was part of the group known as the Spanish 40 (they were rescued from a lab in Spain). We don’t have any pictures of Kipper from the first 5 years of his life, but have