Thank you to the Anderson family for kindly demonstrating sheep shearing skills at kindergarten recently.  The Andersons farm half bred sheep on their property at Rollesby Valley and this particular ewe and two of her friends hid in the scrub so missed their turn in the shearing shed a few weeks ago. 

Dion used a battery powered shearing machine to gently shear the wool off the sheep. Some tamariki had the opportunity to give this a go too. Each child then got to take a small bag of wool home with them (or sheep fluff as one child described it as).

We are very grateful to Dion and Louise for sharing this experience with the tamariki and it was a fitting finale for their youngest child Frank who is about to leave kindergarten and start school.  This sheep shearing experience has been an Anderson family tradition over a ten year time span where all four of their boys have attended kindergarten.  Frank definitely didn't want to miss out on his turn!