Trainee Keeper Day

A unique opportunity for your child   (aged 12 to 16 years) to go behind the scenes at Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens. Your child will get the chance to gain practical experience of working with our varied animals and meet some of the keepers who look after them on a daily basis. Your child will work with one keeper in a group of up to 4 children.

The Trainee Keeper Day will run from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm and will include activities such as mucking out   (打扫畜栏)and feeding some of the animals, as well as learning about techniques we use to make sure our animals are kept well.

The cost per child is   ￡160.00 and they will be given a certificate as a souvenir of their fantastic day.

You will need to provide suitable weatherproof clothing suitable for wearing outdoors in sometimes mucky conditions and strong footwear suitable for wearing in muddy conditions. We will provide your child with other protective clothing he needs to use during the day, such as special keeper vests and gloves.

Is it dangerous? Frankly speaking, working with any animal always carries a degree of risk, but   the   participants   will   be   fully   informed   of   what   they   should   and   should   not   do   in   any situation. Besides, they will be fully monitored at all times, and all necessary precautions will be taken. So far, no accident has occurred to the participants.

If you have any other question, please email helen@cotswoldwildlifepark.co.uk and we will respond as soon as we can. Please call 01993 823006 if you have any urgent questions.

Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the second child of the family. Reese spent the first four years of her life in Wiesbaden, Germany, where her father John Witherspoon served in the US Army Reserves. Shortly after, John moved the family back to the United States, settling in Nashville, Tennessee.

Reese was introduced to the entertainment industry at a very early age at age 7, she began modeling. This led to appearances on several local television commercials. At age 11, she was placed first in a Ten-State Talent Fair.

In 1990, she landed her first major acting role in The Man in the Moon(1991). Her role as a 14-year old tomboy earned her good reviews. Roles in bigger films such as Jack the Bear (1993) and A Far Off Place (1993) followed shortly after.

Following high school graduation in 1994, Reese decided to have a pause in her acting career and attend Stanford University where she would major in English literature. However, her plans were shortly stopped when she accepted roles to star in two major motion pictures. Although neither film was a huge box-office success, they did help to make Reese a rising star in Hollywood and open the door for bigger and better film roles.

Her breakthrough role came as Elle Woods in the 2001 comedy Legally Blonde In box office terms, the movie was a great success and made Reese one of the top female stars in Holywood. In the year 2014, she produced both Gone Girl and Wild, for which she got nominated (提名) for a best actress Oscar again for her role.

Reese is actively involved in children's and women’=s advocacy organizations. She is a longtime supporter of Save the Children, an organization that helps provide children around the world with education, health care and emergency aid.

Golden eagle populations in the UK are set to increase as some chicks are reintroduced to the north of England. Ten birds will be released (释放) from south of Edinburgh in summer 2018, with the hope of bringing the species back from disappearing in England. More eagles will be released in the summertime of the next five years.

The project received £ 1.3 million of lottery funding in March and has now been awarded a further £ 150,000 to employ workers to run the operation. Project manager Cat Barlow said: “This is a really exciting time as the project is now starting to happen and we will soon start to see its benefits. Work will start next summer, when we will collect a number of golden eagle chicks in the Highlands and bring them south to be reared and released from an already selected place.”

The birds will be released with satellite tracking tags that will allow the scientists to gather information about their behavior and find if they suddenly go offline.

Recently, golden eagles have died out in England as the last known individual is believed to have died. Due to the popularity of shooting birds of prey (食肉猛禽), those birds in the wild struggle to survive. Main causes of death are systematic poisoning, shooting and nest disturbance by gamekeepers.

It is hoped that the newly released birds will move further south in search of new living areas and food supplies. The project expects to see the number of wild birds in Scotland and England increase as the range of the animals develops. While the birds were gone in England, in the Highlands of Scotland the number of golden eagles rocketed with up to 500 breeding pairs, the chicks will be sourced from here. It is hoped that golden eagles may finally return to the north of England, and if all goes well, numbers should grow steadily.

Piaget’s theory of cognitive (认知) development is a theory about the nature and development of human intelligence. It was first created by the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget(1896-1980). The theory deals with the nature of knowledge itself and how humans gradually come to acquire, construct, and use it. Piaget’s theory is mainly known as a developmental stage theory.

To Piaget, cognitive development was a progressive reorganization of mental processes resulting from biological maturation and environmental experience He believed that children construct an understanding of the world around them, experience differences between what they already know and what they discover in their environment and then adjust their ideas accordingly. Besides, Piaget claimed that cognitive development is at the center of the human organism, and language is depending on knowledge and understanding acquired through cognitive development.

Piaget’s earlier work received the greatest attention. Child-centered classrooms and “open education” are direct applications of Piaget’s views. Despite its huge success, Piaget’s theory is not perfect and Piaget has recognized it himself: for example, the theory supports sharp stages rather than continuous development.

Piaget noted that reality is a dynamic system of continuous change. Reality is defined (给...下定义) in reference to the two conditions that define dynamic systems, Specifically, he argued that reality involves transformations and states. Transformations refer to all manner of changes that a thing or person can experience States refer to the conditions or a appearances in which things or persons can be found between transformations. For example, there might be changes in shape or form, in size, or in placement or location in space and time. Thus, Piaget argued, if human intelligence is to be adaptive, it must have functions to represent both the transformational and the static aspects of reality.

Many years ago， I was a college graduate with a degree but no job. My substitute teaching work ended and I got desperate. I had a family to feed.       16    While I was grateful， my first day there was quite a blow to my ego(自尊). The job at the local wood mill paid less but was hard and back-breaking. It was full of bending， lifting， and carrying heavy wood for eight hours a day.     17    

When winter arrived my gloves tore and my fingers split and bled in the cold air. I found myself using more band aids than I ever thought I would just to keep my hands working.    18     At the end of two years only four other people had worked there longer than I had. Every morning I pulled myself out of bed and went to work knowing it was going to be another difficult day.

I tried my best to keep my spirits up but many times during those years I asked， "Why me? Why am I having to go through this? Why has my life not turned out the way I dreamed it would?"       19     I think maybe in a way I needed those tough times. I needed them to shrink my ego. I needed them to become more caring， sympathetic， and loving.

    20     It is these times that make us mature. If you are going through some "Why Me?" times， don’t give up. Use them to become stronger， kinder and more loving.

We made a quick stop at the grocery store to pick up cupcakes for my daughter Norah’s fourth birthday. As an older gentleman walked by, Norah _________ and waved, “Hi old person! It’s my birthday today!” I apologized to him embarrassedly for her _________.

“Hello little lady! And how old are you today?” he asked. They _________ for a couple of minutes, with Norah _________ him in on the details of her birthday, and we went out _________ ways. But a few minutes later, Norah _________ she really wanted a _________ with him. Uh, my cutest baby!

We back found him at the _________. “Excuse me, sir? She’d like to know if you’d take a photo with her,” I asked, _________ the man to be annoyed at my daughter’s strange request. ____________, I got the completely opposite response!

He looked ____________. “A photo? With me?” So they posed together and then they ____________ each other like they were long lost friends. The precious scene ____________ other shoppers, but no one cared. We ____________ Mr. Dan (I knew his name later on) for his ____________. His eyes filled with tears and he said, “No, thank YOU. It is YOU who made me ____________.”

Now, Norah and Mr. Dan are more than just friends. We make ____________ visits to see him because she worries about his being ____________. Mr. Dan says that his friendship with Norah helped to ____________ his broken heart for his wife’s sudden death.

Sometimes talking to ____________ turns into the most beautiful thing in the world.

The first English version of the famous martial arts novel, “The Legend of the Condor Heroes” (《射雕英雄传》)     41     (schedule) to come out in the UK next year.    42     almost every Chinese person knows, the novel was written by Louis Cha, better known by his pen name, Jin Yong. London-based MacLehose Press has confirmed that the novel will come out in 12 volumes (册) with the first     43     (set) to come out on Feb. 22.

In the publisher’s promotional     44     (introduce) of the “The Legend of the Condor Heroes” the series was referred to as a Chinese version of “Game of thrones” (《权利的游戏》). The first volume has been translated by Anna Holmwood, an English publishing agent     45     (work) together with many famous Chinese writers, such as Yu Hua, and Yan Ge. Holmwood have been translating “The Legend of the Condor Heroes” since 2012, and from the second volume onwards she invited Gigi Chang to help her     46     the translation.

Louis Cha is China’s most influential martial arts author with     47     total of 15 novels. Since the 1950s. about 100 million     48     (copy) of his works have been sold around the world. But only three of them     49     （translate）for the English-speaking world so far. They are “Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain”, “The Deer and the Cauldron” and “The Book and the Sword”, Louis Cha is widely recognized as one of the most     50     (success) authors in China.