A wildlife garden at school

A wildlife garden at school

When a young urban fox wandered into a primary school one day, not surprisingly there was panic among the teachers. (9) ________, most of the children watched fascinated as a wildlife officer rounded (10) ________ the unexpected visitor. This unexpected event led to the school creating its own nature garden a year later and integrating wildlife study into lessons, all of (11) ________ has resulted in notable benefits. The children study the signals that wild animals use to indicate where food (12) ________ to be found and use vegetables in cooking lessons. They have even opened a school stall selling produce, with the pupils responsible for growing and pricing it, as well as every other step of production. Interestingly, nobody anticipated the most significant benefit of (13) ________ of this: the effect gardening seems to (14) ________ had on the pupils' behaviour. (15) ________ getting children to think of their responsibility to others can often (16) ________ a challenge, making nature the focus has brought about this behaviour effortlessly.