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Garry Hilton came to teach us about pests. He showed us all his pest traps. He also showed us his hunting ferret, Stella. Stella has teeth as sharp as needles. Stella is good at hunting rabbits and also at climbing trees. Garry puts Stella down a hole (wearing a special radio transmitter collar) and she races through and chases all the rabbits out into nets over the other holes. He has to feed her first so she doesn't eat a rabbit and fall asleep. Otherwise he would have to dig her out! 
Garry's record was catching 1200 ferrets in 10 days! Ferrets eat birds and there is no predator to kill mustelids so now the population has exploded. Garry taught us about Rabbit Arithmetic: 1 rabbit + 1 rabbit = 1,000,000 rabbits!!! Wow, that is a lot of rabbits! 

Term 4

This term we are working on our communication skills by learning about interviewing. An interview works best when:

• The interviewer asks good questions. Questions can be 'open' or 'closed' - open questions can start with how, why or what and get answers with lots of information. Closed questions usually only get very short or yes/no answers.
• The person being interviewed speaks clearly and explains what they are doing.
• The camera filming the interview is kept still.
• There is not too much background noise.

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First Interview by Room 7 Reporters