This morning in assembly, Mrs Buss talked to the whole school about ‘World Bee Day’ and the importance of Bee’s to the worlds ecosystem and how they help to pollinate our trees, flowers and even food! We need bee’s to help grow the vegetables and food we eat and they play a vital role in the worlds food chains!

Unfortunately most of the species of bees in this country are in decline and have now become labelled as endangered. We spoke about what we could do to help bees (not hurt them, offer sugary food for rest, create wildflower patches, build bee houses) and chatted about being kind to all living things.

The children in Foundation Stage have been busily creating a ‘wildflower space’ since last Summer and today we spotted lots of signs of bee activity there! This was lovely to see and the children enjoyed just sitting and watching the bees busily go about their day helping the plants!

We noticed, like Mrs Buss said, that the bees particularly took a liking to our blue and purple wildflowers as that’s their favourite colour! We can’t wait to build some bee houses over the next few weeks in Forest School and Nature Club… watch this space!