Open Day Keynsham
Thank you to everyone who came to our Open Day on 16 February, and helped to make it such a success!
Our special thanks to the children of St John's Primary School and Castle Primary School for the lovely pictures and poems that they entered into our competition. These entries decorated our walls on the day and visitors voted for their favourites. The lucky winners are as follows:
- Ellie Macrae
- Isaak Bishop
- Matthew Parker Langford
- Grace Broom
- Henry Thomas
- Harriet Davidson
- Sam Rice
- Amy Baker
- Jazmin Doherty
- Rhys Greenland
Here are some pictures that were taken around the practice on the day.
A Beautiful Day
The weather was perfect that day, and some visitors milled around outside and sat on the wall drinking their wine!
Refreshments Were Served
Thanks to Barbara and Derrick who served wine, tea, coffee and cakes for our visitors, and worked flat out the whole time.
Reception
The Pets for Therapy Charity representative talked to visitors about the many ways that pets can enhance the lives of people with disabilities.
Children's treasure hunt
Receptionist, Jean, was run off her feet with over 80 entries for our treasure hunt quiz, each child was given a chocolate egg and one overall winner was chosen at random.
Face Painting in the Cattery
Katy's face painting in the cattery was very popular, with a queue of children the whole afternoon.
Beth Thatcher
Beth was very pleased with her butterfly design!
Exotic Pet Corner
Janine Fletcher, our head nurse at Keynsham, keeps a number of exotic pets as a hobby. She hosted the Exotic pet corner, letting visitors handle and observe her menagerie of leaf insects, millipedes and stick insects, plus a snake kindly lent to us by Jurassic Reps in Bristol.
Keyhole Surgery
Highcroft is one of the few veterinary practices in the country to use Keyhole Surgery, and probably the only practice to let the general public have a go! Partner, Robert Dawson, lets the children practice their skills on a green pepper.
Pet First Aid Room
Meanwhile, veterinary surgeon Isabel Evans demonstrated first aid for pets, and had lots of volunteers practising their bandaging techniques on Rex the cuddly dog.
The Operating Theatre
Finally, Richard Killen was all gowned up with many assistants to help stitch up the wound on his anaesthetised cuddly patient.
