Grade 3 class pioneers school-based poultry project in North Vancouver

Five chickens arrived at the Vancouver Waldorf School on Thursday morning in North Vancouver.

The striking heritage-breed hens, named Rosa, Coal, Laverne, Henley and Goldilocks, showed up in baskets covered by blankets — to keep their stress levels down.

Then a quiet rabble of nine- and ten-year-olds toted their awkward burdens to the back of their school — and set the hens free in their brand new, sun-dappled coop that will be used for teaching and de-stressing students.

It was the culmination of months of