WHEN Haven Primary School teacher Alex Ford got to work on Friday morning, she was in for a rude awakening.
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Items had been knocked over and strewn about the room – she thought her classroom had been broken into.
“The room had been trashed,” she said.
Concerned about what was going on, she locked everyone out of the room and waited.
“We were outside waiting for the okay to go back in,” Miss Ford said.
“Our classroom is next to another and there is a little office in between the two rooms.
“Another teacher went in to the office to take a phone call and we soon heard her squeal.”
The other teacher had discovered the culprit – an echidna had made its way into the classroom.
“We think it must have got in the day before somehow and was there overnight,” Miss Ford said.
“It was a mystery at first as to what had happened in the classroom but it didn’t take long to work it out.
“It was a bit of excitement for the morning.”
Miss Ford teaches grade 3 and 4.
She said all the students were able to have a good look at the intruder.
“They were all very excited,” she said.
“They decided to give the echidna a name and called him Spiky.
“They loved it.”
Miss Ford said she tried to move the echidna outside, but soon decided it was a job for a professional.
A ranger was called in to find the intruder a new home.