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# Fiction becomes reality as hedgehogs pay a visit to Lichfield primary school
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/fiction-becomes-reality-as-hedgehogs-pay-a-visit-to-lichfield-primary-school/
- Published: 2022-10-06T06:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-10-04T14:07:23.000Z
- Description: Pupils at a Lichfield primary school have seen fiction become reality as they welcomed some spiky visitors to their classroom.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Education, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 19:11, News

Pupils at a Lichfield primary school have seen fiction become reality as they welcomed some spiky visitors to their classroom.

The Year 2 youngsters at St Chad’s Primary School – who have been reading Dick King-Smith’s book The Hodgeheg – were joined by hedgehogs from a local wildlife sanctuary.

The children met four of the animals along with Carol Tyler, who runs the Tamworth and District Hedgehog and Bird Rescue centre.

Teacher Helen Board said:

> “We were excited to invite Carol into school to find out more about hedgehogs and to support pupils’ learning.  
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> “Carol talked to Year 2 all about the hedgehogs. She told us what they ate, what they were like when they were born, where their habitats are and how we can look after them.   
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> “She brought in an adult hedgehog who had been sadly blinded by a garden strimmer and three babies who had lost their mum. The babies were only five weeks old and every child in the class was brave enough to hold one. I was very proud of them all!  
>  
> “The children said they’d had the best time and that the hedgehogs were cute. They loved holding them and said they were softer than they thought.”  
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> Helen Board