Comments on: Bee Scene

By: Pat Mellor

Pat Mellor — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:14:16 +0000

We have carried out our bee scence survey in our school gardens which are planted with flowers and wild flowers to attract bees and beneficial insects. During the warm weather we have watched with interest all the different types of bees collecting nectar from our lovely flowers. I have given out the survey to children in key stage one and to the gardening club members. We have seen the white tailed bumble bee, the buff tailed bumble bee and the Garden bumblebee (I didn’t realise that there were so many different species of bumblebee). We also have all the flower colours on your chart and all the varieties in our Stumpery Wildlife Garden so it is definately a good place for bees. Thank you for a brilliant survey.

By: Mrs Salmon

Mrs Salmon — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:05:13 +0000

At Petersgate Infant School we completed our survey with Year 1′s a fews weeks ago during Environment Week. Unforunately it was rather a wet week so at first the number of bees we saw seemed to be down on last year. We still have a wide variety of wild flowers (and we were able to identify some new ones this year) around the school grounds and some mixed garden beds and we did see a variety of bees. It was fairly buzzing with bees (mostly white tailed) around the lime tree blossom underneath which it was quite sheltered away from the rain.

By: Miss Newman

Miss Newman — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:28:25 +0000

We spent an afternoon surveying our school grounds. We saw over 50 bees, mainly white tailed and red tailed bumbles. Although our grounds are good for bees, we have decided to plant some more clover. Also our Year 6 children designed and planted up a bee garden. This was shown at RHS Wisley and is now part of our minibeast area. Year 2 have really enjoyed looking at bees this summer, especially the pollen bags!

By: Susan Buxton & Ruth Knowles

Susan Buxton & Ruth Knowles — Sat, 14 May 2011 07:33:54 +0000

St Michael’s Nursery & Infants School have had great fun again this year completing a Survey recording how many different flowers they could find in the school environment.The children noticed the improvement with the addition of a vegetable garden created by the gardening club and the planting of flowers since last years survey.The children were pleased with the results, on completion of a bee survey
The children noticed the increase in bees especially on the flowers the bees are attracted too.The children have worked hard improving their environment by adding a Bug Hotel, making bee homes and planting a variety of saplings to develop our school grounds.We look forward to planting sunflowers and continuing to ensure our school grounds give us lot’s of opportunities to enjoy and learn.

By: Tanya lewis

Tanya lewis — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:53:30 +0000

We really enjoyed working on this project at varying levels of ability and interest.
We made solitary bee homes after discovering which plants the bees particularly liked and kept a small photo diary of different kind of bees visting our site.
We have been given permission from the council to keep our own bees at the allotment now, which is very exciting.

By: Mrs E Thorne

Mrs E Thorne — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:42:01 +0000

Year 2 at Newport C.E. Primary School on the Isle of Wight looked at the hedgerows surrounding the school, the field itself and the pond area. We found brambles, dog roses, red campion, red clover and white clover. As well as a few bees, we found damsel flies and dragon flies. A few days before, a swarm of honey bees from a hive crossed the playground, set up a temporary home in one of our boundary trees, before finding a new hive. A bee keeper came to explain the process.

By: st. marys primary school gardening club Beverley

st. marys primary school gardening club Beverley — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:33:23 +0000

We did our survey with menbers of the gardening club from KS2.
We found plenty of wild flowers around the school field and wild area and we have planted some more wild flower seeds near the vegetable garden.We all enjoyed taking part in the Bee scene survey.We are now enjoying making bee houses.we have also planted wild flowers in the school courtyard.This was a great activity.
Our next project is to plant our sunflowers out into the vegetable plot.

By: Discovery Quest Walking Project

Discovery Quest Walking Project — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:17:03 +0000

We surveyed a field at Tuttington in East Anglia and found at least 11 out of the fifteen Bee Scene Flowers and also quite a range of other flowers too, showing that there are still areas in East Anglia that can provide good habitat for bees. There were also lots of bees evident on the site and a bees nest in a roundhouse on the field!

By: Rainow Primary School

Rainow Primary School — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:45:01 +0000

Year 6 at Rainow Primary did the survery today and found plenty of wild flowers which are great for bees and pollinating insects in their wonderful school grounds. The children all enjoyed the survery and are proud that their scholl has taken part in this important national survery

By: Dawn Copeman

Dawn Copeman — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:22:08 +0000

I did the survey with my daughter and a friend’s daughter – both of whom are home-educated. They loved the education pack and had real fun finding the varieties of wild-flower in our communal gardens – which are more like a small park with several areas set aside for wildflowers. My daughter wondered why birds-foot trefoil wasn’t listed in the type of bee-friendly flowers as in our garden we noticed that this particular flower was very popular with bees.