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28/03/24

Final activity of the day for the year 7s before we make our departure home. 🤺 pic.twitter.com/EbVDS4KD2U

28/03/24

The ‘Giant Swing’ pic.twitter.com/falKRDrxDe

28/03/24

The HCACP Newsletter for March 2024 is now available at https://t.co/h7giAO70dA pic.twitter.com/wVBxnheCkV

28/03/24

After breakfast it’s climbing for 3 of our Year 7 groups. Excellent progress being made by all! pic.twitter.com/nBQ7crmLhL

28/03/24

Welcome to the final day of our amazing you solve the final teaser? pic.twitter.com/gmoLD9NbEQ

27/03/24

The year 7s have arrived safely at and are starting their afternoon activities! pic.twitter.com/RO7I84x0Wk

26/03/24

in HCACP delivering an inciteful and important workshop on consent. pic.twitter.com/ObdNiaU0O0

26/03/24

There's still a few days of to go. See how you make out with this problem. pic.twitter.com/UNn0ySLcbA

25/03/24

Congratulations to the U14 girls basketball team who were crowned champions today for a third successive year!! 🏆🥇🏀⛹🏽‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/Y9tQeR7WGm

22/03/24

Maths never sleeps! Another illuminating problem as part of and HCACP. pic.twitter.com/G4NMy1bthQ

20/03/24

Congratulations to young HCACP artist Sebastian in Year 7 for earning himself a prestigious Principal Award, certificate and badge for his outstanding art homework. pic.twitter.com/4vYIlDaClL

20/03/24

Another problem for . How many have you solved so far? pic.twitter.com/MkowQWHJVB

19/03/24

Continues at HCACP with this tricky musical teaser. pic.twitter.com/LhoDzGtd3t

19/03/24

HCACP announces our new Lingua Chef competition, Le gâteaux edition. pic.twitter.com/HkcjrrUQIS

18/03/24

Three DofE Bronze practice day walks completed this month, giving students some valuable map-reading and navigation practice before expeditions begin in April. Very muddy conditions, but great effort from all students! pic.twitter.com/GxANQEPut2

18/03/24

Three DofE Bronze practice day walks completed this month, giving students some valuable map-reading and navigation practice before expeditions begin in April. Very muddy conditions, but great effort from all students! pic.twitter.com/GxANQEPut2

15/03/24

50% of the way through . How many problems have you solved so far? Todays thorny problem. pic.twitter.com/PTP0Vj3HfF

14/03/24

Celebrating the real star of science week. The Scientific method. This simple framework with It's inherent error correction has given humans the modern world and emancipated Homo sapiens from our primitive origins. https://t.co/7LOl6kgcI3 pic.twitter.com/bUSAU2RNUS

13/03/24

Live in Croydon? In Year 7-11? Join our free football training camp 9th-12th April! ⚽️🍝🧃Check your emails and sign up using the voucher code from Holiday Activities 📧 | pic.twitter.com/jT1w90Kg8o

13/03/24

Live in Croydon? In Year 7-11? Join our free football training camp 9th-12th April! ⚽️🍝🧃Check your emails and sign up using the voucher code from Holiday Activities 📧 | pic.twitter.com/jT1w90Kg8o

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Posted on March 20th 2014

Animal Encounters

On Thursday 13th March, Year 7 gathered to see many animals and learn about them. When we arrived in the sixth form study block, we sat on the floor and waited for the show to start.

First we saw a bird of prey, a Harris Hawk.  It had very sharp claws and we had to handle it with a special glove; it had a string tied to one claw so it wouldn’t fly away or harm any small students!

The next animal we saw was a baby Northern Saw-whet Owl.  It was small and cute and Sadia got to touch it.  When she stroked the bottom of its stomach its legs extended as, in the wild, they live on the floor and they have to run away from predators or towards prey.

The 3rd animal we looked at was a chinchilla.  Students who answered the questions correctly, were chosen to hold the animals.  The instructors from Impeyan (“The zoo that comes to you!”) asked some students to put the chinchilla to their faces to feel how warm and fluffy it was.  One of the instructors said “If you were to pull a chinchilla hair out of its body, instead of one hair coming out, 30 would come out instead!”

We then looked at a tortoise.  It was very small and Shyanne was given the opportunity to hold it.  Then we got to meet his brother, who looked nearly 8 times bigger.  It was larger than our heads combined!  Martin tried to lift him but he was too heavy!

After this we looked at a meerkat.  Ryan and Jacob linked arms and the instructor put the Meerkat on their shoulder.  Other animals included a scorpion, stick insect, caiman, snake and walaby.  It was a really fun afternoon!

Written by Riya Rajendran and Bethany Kauder - 7CK