Last Friday parents helped collect lots of money for a school by buying children’s pictures. The classrooms in a primary school in Bicester (18)______ (use) as an art gallery for a day and the school invited parents to come and look. All the pupils produced a work of art and each painting went on sale at $5. Hundreds of parents and relations came and, together, (19)______ spent over $2,000.
Now the school is thinking of making the exhibition (20)______(big) next year by also contacting businesses (21)______ operate in the local area. One of the school children’s parents first had the idea after going to similar exhibitions (22)______ his home country, South Africa.
The head teacher said he was delighted to see the school so full and he was very proud of（23）_____the children did. Now the school (24)______(decide) to use the money to buy books and CD players.