The staff at Ayton Primary School were all very impressed with the Petsnakes Roadshow, which lasted slightly less than one and a half hours. 

The whole show was very well organised and controlled. Jim was able to maintain the interest of all the school pupils as one group (from P1 to P7) at the same time. Most pupils became quite engrossed and found the whole experience quite fascinating. Jim’s love of the animals was evident throughout. 

Jim took time to answer every question asked, explaining things very well to the pupils. He gave lots of sensible advice to those who asked about keeping snakes as pets. 

At the weekly assembly a few days later, 100% of our pupils indicated that they had enjoyed the show and nearly everyone said they had enjoyed touching the snakes.

Graham Dolan

Headteacher

Individual Emails From The Pupils

‘Dear Jim, Thank you for coming to our school(Ayton Primary  School) I had Great Fun. My name is Nadine I am Eleven years old. My favourite snake was the Black Pine snake but I also Liked Colin the Python he was lovely. My mum and dad won't let me have a snake because my dad does'nt like them. My mum likes them but just dosent want one!

Anyway Thank you for such a good day at our school.’ (Nadine aged 11)

‘I liked the Petsnakes Roadshow because we got to touch a snake called Colin.  The best snake I think is Tango, the Corn snake because of his colours. Since  I saw that I think I would like a snake  now.’  (Liam aged 11)

‘I liked it when Jim let us touch the snake called Colin. the snakes I liked most were the corn snake and milk snake. Jim told us a lot of information about snakes. He told us that the longest snake was a reticulate python.’  (Ryan aged 11)

‘Dear Jim, I liked the show very much.I liked the black pine snake best of all. I learnt not to pick up a snake otherwise it might bite you.’  (Hamish P2)

‘Dear Jim, I really liked your show I have learnt a lot about snakes. I hope you can come again to tell us about other animals.’  (Kayla P2)

‘Dear Jim, I liked your show very much. I especially liked the corn snake because it is bright orange.’  (Erin p2)

‘Dear Jim. Thank you for coming to our school to show us your snakes. I liked all of them but i liked colin the best. He was so cute! The big black one was so big and i now know what the largest snake is (the reticulated  python.)’  (Tamara age 10 class p6)

‘Hi Jim, thank you for coming to our school. I really enjoyed it. I liked the milk snake the best.When we came back from the show we had to draw a snake. I drew the milk snake. Thank you for coming.’ (Samantha aged 11)

‘Dear Jim, I liked your show. I liked the snakes Jim. I liked the black pine snake best because it was shiny and black. Black is my favourite colour. I would like a snake but my mum and dad wouldn't let me.’ (Bradley p2).

‘Dear Jim, Thank you for coming to Ayton Primary School. Thank you for showing us your snakes. I liked the black pine and the corn snakes best. I liked the spider too.’ (Garry P6)

‘Dear Jim, I really liked the show. I liked all the snakes and the tarantula. I liked the pine snake when it slithered on the floor.’  (Benjamin p2)

‘Dear Jim, Thank you for coming to our school. I liked your show. Tango was my favourite because he was orange.’  (Becky p2)

‘Dear Jim, I really liked your show. I liked all your snakes because they were my favourite snakes you had. I learned not to pick up a snake because they might bite me. I did not like the tarantula because I was scared because I do not like spiders any way.’  (Summer P2)