Recently I had the absolute pleasure of speaking to a wonderful bunch of year 3/4 students from Barkers Vale Public School .

Their teacher Mrs Mac had fully prepared them for the visit including asking them to write several questions for me. The class had obviously been thinking about koalas, some of which live in the school grounds as there were some very well thought out questions.

It was even better when a couple of days later I received a folder full of recounts which the children had written about the visit. One of these is below. The others are in the kids section of the website.

What a fantastic class!!!!!!!

On the second of June 2008 Barbara Dobner came to Barkers Vale Public School year 3/4 and talked about koalas. She came from Friends of the Koala.

First we went into the computer room and Barbara showed us a slide show on koalas. We learnt the difference between a male and a female koalas and weather a koala is sick or healthy. Also we learnt about all the threats and predators koalas have which includes dogs, cars, diseases and old age. There were plenty of cute pictures of koalas that Barbara has kept in care!!

Next we left the computer room and went back into the classroom. We all got to ask some questions that we had written earlier. After we asked a question she exchanged either a postcard or a magazine on koalas. She was extremely pleased with the questions that we asked. At the end of the day Mrs Mac handed out pamphlets and cards from the Friends of the Koala. On the pamphlets it included a map to the Friends of the Koala Care Centre and information about koalas and what you can do for them to help. On the card it included a website address of the Friends of the Koala and the rescue phone number.

I enjoyed learning about koalas and I enjoyed watching the slide show that Barbara had put together for us to watch. Thank you Barbara for coming to our school and teaching us about koalas.