During Christmas school holidays Bluey goes home to the Denman household and this past December was at home in a strawberry patch. One day in January Mr Denman went out to check on her but Bluey was nowhere to be found.
"The patch had wire on it to keep out the birds, so I thought it would be a safe place she couldn't escape from, but she just vanished. After a while we gave up looking for her and, the other day, I said to my wife we should sell all Bluey's stuff.
"And then my wife went outside and found her sitting on the concrete out the back of our house."
He said the blue-tongued lizard species wasn't equipped to survive a cold New Zealand winter but, somehow, Bluey had reappeared nearly nine months later.
Now she's back at home in room 3 and is more of a star than before - when the Chronicle visited the whole class was keen to "have a hold" of the returned reptile.
"The kids are absolutely rapt ... me too, really," Mr Denman said.