Aaaarrgghh, Spider!

Mrs Catterall isn't keen on spiders, but she was very brave when we found one in the classroom and she caught it for us, for a little while, to observe!  We counted that the spider has 8 legs and is therefore not an insect. We saw its large abdomen where it stores the eggs and we saw its two palps at the front. We released it safely into the garden at the end of the day and watched it spin a web!