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School pet day The clues
The Years 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 at Hillside Primary School decided to have a best of school pet contest. All of the children in each school year brought in their pets, and a best pet for each year was chosen. These five year champions then competed against each other for the title of Best Hillside Pet. The contest was held and, of course, the pets finished from first place on down through fifth place. The pets were owned by pupils named Reuben, Roland, Renee, Rita and Rosalie. Their last names were Glazer, Fowler, Eastman, Sweetland and Litton. The pets were a gerbil, a wombat, a woodchuck, a mamba and a snapping turtle. Their names were Fluffy, Max, Luke, Charger and Duke. For the contest, the pet owners put a different coloured ribbon on their pets. The colours were orange, violet, yellow, magenta and purple. The five teachers who acted as impartial judges were named Mr Mason, Mr Engles, Mrs Trotter, Ms Hill and Mrs Leary. The subjects they taught were dancing, economics, physics, sewing and astronomy. Sadly, each teacher suffered a bite to a different part of their anatomy from a different pet during the course of the judging. They were bitten on the nose, cheek, earlobe, finger and chin.
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Luke did not bite the sewing teacher. The pet that bit Ms Hill was not wearing violet and finished behind both the pet that bit Mr Engles and the pet that bit Mrs Trotter. Sweetland’s pet did not finish in first or second place. Charger, the pride of Year 7, strutted around in his magenta ribbon. Max finished behind Luke, but Luke did not win the contest. The dancing teacher was bitten on the finger by a pet that did not place as high as the pet that bit the physics teacher’s cheek. Reuben’s woodchuck finished in front of both Eastman and Litton’s pets. Ms Hill was not bitten on her earlobe or on her chin. Eastman’s turtle was named Duke and did not finish in either third or fourth place. Year 5’s pet finished just behind the Year 7’s pet, Year 3’s pet finished just in front of the Year 7’s pet but did not finish either in first or second place, and the Year 6’s pet finished just in front of the Year 4’s pet. Reuben’s pet did not bite either the dancing teacher or the physics teacher. Neither Mr Engels nor Mrs Trotter taught dancing, economics or physics. Roland Glazer’s pet finished in front of Rita Fowler’s wombat. The pet in the orange ribbon finished just in front of the pet in the purple ribbon. Mr Engels was bitten on the earlobe, but not by the mamba in the yellow ribbon. The pet in the purple ribbon finished just in front of the pet that bit Mrs Leary. Rita’s pet did better than Rosalie’s pet, but Renee’s pet finished behind Rosalie’s pet.
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Based on the clues given below, and using the worksheet on the opposite page, match the finishing order with the school years of the owners, their first and last names, the pet species, the pet names, the ribbon colours, the judges, the subjects taught and the body parts injured.
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