YOUNGSTERS are having a cracking time learning about life-cycles.
On Monday the egg-cited reception class children, aptly named the Ducklings, arrived at St Barnabas Primary School to meet their new classmates – six baby ducks.
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The children had been looking after the rescued eggs in class after they were brought in school by reception class teacher and deputy head teacher Becky Ham.
Becky said: “My husband Chris came home one night with six duck eggs. The others had been eaten by a fox and there was no sign of the mother.
“The eggs have been in school for a couple of weeks and I’ve been taking them home in the evenings and at the weekend to keep an eye on them .”
The class, which already had caterpillars and tadpoles, has helped to make a little pen for the ducklings in the role play area.
Becky added: “ The ducklings are settling in well but they like the attention.
“They start ‘peeping’ when the children are doing activities because they want company all the time. It makes the classroom even noisier!
“We are going to keep them for about 12 weeks and then they will go to my dad’s farm.
“They have really captured the children’s imagination and they are doing lots of writing about them, and I have even caught the children singing to them and making cards for them.”
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