We had a very special visitor today!

Today, we had a very special visitor in our class. David Bellamy is the grandfather of one of the members of our class and is a very famous botanist. He came to talk to us about living in a rainforest because we are studying rainforests at present and we have lots of questions we would like to have answers to. David told us lots of facts and made us laugh a lot! He also brought many interesting items to show us - we especially liked his blowpipe with its poison-tipped arrows! It was great fun to meet David and listen to him and we would like him to visit us again soon!

David showed us some very interesting slides and items from the rainforest.

Look at us! Osprey is holding a blowpipe, Eemit is holding a quiver which would have poison-tipped arrows in it and Seed-burd is wearing a toucan feather headdress.

David and some of the class are sitting in front of the colourful pictures we have made of the rainforest.

Seed-burd is wearing a very unusual headdress from the rainforest. It is made from lots of feathers from toucans, and is held together by a twine made from stinging nettles.

David and his son Rufus showed us a blowpipe which is used in the rainforest to kill monkeys and toucans which the people eat. It uses poisonous arrows and Rufus blew two of them into the classroom wall! We were all very impressed!

At the end of David's visit, he had his photo taken with our class and a range of rainforest animals!