TODDLERS were thrilled when a chick hatched out and started chirping in their class at a nursery school yesterday.
It was the first to be born from a dozen eggs donated by parents to the class at Cockfield, near Barnard Castle.
Three year old Kira Moles- Rusa is pictured holding the chick, which the children named Ethel. The eggs have been in an incubator in the class for 21 days.
Nursery teacher Judith Cowley said: "The children are all thrilled. We hope that some more chicks will hatch out in the next few days." She said the experience of seeing chicks arriving from eggs comes under "knowledge and understanding of the world" in the foundation stage of the national curriculum.
As the chickens grow up, they will be passed on to farms in the area.
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