'Percy' our school Dog

Percy is a working cocker spaniel, who belongs to our administrator Alice Hayward. He is fully trained through the charity 'Dogs Helping Kids' to be an Educational Assistance Dog.

Percy and Alice work with classes or individual children across the school each week, whether it is to read a story together, for social development or as a reward.

Please read our school dog policy if you would like further information or speak to Alice in the school office!

Percy is also on Social Media, just type in the hashtag #percytheschooldog and you will find him!

Percy's journey

2022

Percy has been at home on 'pupternity leave' looking after the newest human addition to his family. He has returned this week and already taken new starters around the school for a tour. He is so pleased to be back and has greeted lots of children on his way around school. Soon Percy will be spending more time in the library with Alice and seeing the children as they pop in quietly to use our lovely library space.

2021

Percy Time has slowly started again and we are loving it! Here is a photograph of Percy's brilliant focus when working with a Year 5 child last week. I took Percy down to the library on Tuesday and we had a little practice at reading again, it has been a while!

So Percy is now back in lockdown again with Alice in the school office. Not the start to the year we all expected. Percy is keeping up with his training and before Christmas was having 'Percy Time' with the children this included walking on the school field, learning all about dog behaviour and learning our facts about dogs through a true or false game. Hopefully we will soon be able to add some more photos to the Percy time page and maybe even make another video!

2020

What a strange year so far for all at school! January saw lots of fun with the children with a few one to one sessions a week, lots of learning for the children about dog welfare, body language and how to 'Speak Dog'. 

Lockdown has been a bit strange for Percy as he does not understand why he cannot be allowed to be in school with all of his friends and chilling in his office!

September 2019 

Pupdate! - Percy has had a lovely Summer Holiday's learning new things and having fun and is ready to come back for the Autumn Term! He looks forward to welcoming the new children, and working with new faces!

March 2019

Percy has been working with a group of four children across Year 3 and Year 4. We have learnt about dog behaviour and body language across 4 weeks, as well as how to greet a dog you don't know. The children have fed Percy lots of treats and he has thoroughly enjoyed it as much as they have! He has also been working one on one with a different child each week on a reward basis from the class teacher. Percy is currently practicing his reading, and his 'snuggle' is definatley his favourite move. 

January 2019

Percy has been working with the children during 'Percy Time'. He has been working 121 with Jacob from Year 2 this term, as well as other small groups of children. He visited Year 2 and they were amazingly quiet whilst he lay on his mat at the front and ate his treats. I have added some recent photos above, so enjoy! :) 

October 2018

Percy and I visited the DHK HQ on 19th October for our Assesment 1 and 2 training day. Percy was a superstar as always and was very tired by the end of the day. We learnt the 'Snuggle' and 'Book' so the next stage will be building duration of both of these to be able to read with the children.

April 2018

I am very proud to announce that Percy and I passed our Entry Test with ‘Dogs Helping Kids’ last weekend. The test included all of the things we have learnt together over the last 10 months of Percy’s life, and how Percy settles in a new environment. He was as always a star and we came away with two scores of 94% and 99% which is incredible for a puppy of his age. Percy has started working with class 5H over the last term, and it has been great fun to see him interacting so well with the children. We are both really enjoying it! Thank you for all of your support and interest in what we are doing, it is lovely to see. 

Pupdate!

Percy has had a lovely Summer Holiday's learning new things and having fun and is ready to come back for the Autumn Term! He looks forward to welcoming the new children, and working with new faces!