Shebbear College opens revamped biology department with a hamster run on the ceiling

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THE pitter-patter of tiny feet can be heard on the ceiling of a rural schools science lab.

Shebbear College has a rather unusual hamster run fixed to the ceiling of its revamped science room.

Hamsters scurry about the brightly-coloured run which was installed in the biology lab. The lab is also home to an albino milk snake called Pingu.

Andrew Colville has been head of biology at Shebbear College for four years. The 20-year-old science lab was renovated last July and he designed the new layout of the room.

He said: I designed everything in the room, from the shape and layout of the desks to the position of sinks and gas taps.

It was Andrews idea to install the hamster run.

He said: It was a crazy idea that I had when I was designing the lab as I had had hamsters before. I wanted them to have space and allow the pupils to observe them and their behaviour.

The lab has a menagerie of animals including 18 roborovski hamsters, one Nelsons milk snake, Indian stick insects and fish, including guppies, neon tetras, corys, red phantom tetras and cardinal tetras.

Andrew said: It is a biology lab and as biology is the study of life and living things I felt it only right that the room was full of life.

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Shebbear College opens revamped biology department with a hamster run on the ceiling