World Bee Day

To celebrate World Bee Day on 20th May, we have been busy bees learning all about the importance of bees and how we can help protect them.

Mr Goodhand brought in his Beekeeping equipment and spoke to Pre-Prep about how to care for the Bees.

While in Forest School, Miss Reynolds and Mrs Harvey set everyone a challenge. Working in teams, children had to collect nectar using a pipette but, just like bees, they couldn't communicate to the other worker bees to tell them where the nectar was. Instead, they had to use 'bee communication' and do a waggle dance! They all took it in turns to be the queen bee and worker bees. It certainly was exhausting watching them running around collecting their nectar and filling their hives (ice cube trays). At the end of the lesson everyone enjoyed sitting down to watch Bee TV and count the bumble bees leaving and returning to their nest.

Being a bee certainly is hard work!