Chilcote Primary School

Forest School are Buzzing about Bees!

On Wednesday, our Year 2 Forest School went to the allotments to meet our bee keeper friend, Colin Smith, to find out all about his bee hives and how his bees make yummy honey. We learnt so much and we all really enjoyed eating honey sandwiches with him! Colin's hives house 50,000 bees and this year alone they have produced 320 jars of delicious honey. We had a fantastic time learning from Colin, and got to sample some very tasty raspberries too. We are so grateful to our friends at Scribers Lane allotments for welcoming us there and the children are learning so much about growing and harvesting fruit and vegetables. Dave our school gardener has been helping too and the children really enjoyed helping him back at school.

Some fabulous facts about bees from Colin:
There are 500 types of bees in the UK alone
Honey is actually bee sick!
It takes 1000 bee journeys to make 1 teaspoon of honey
The queen bee lays 1,500 eggs a day!
Male bees are called drones and don’t leave the hive. It is female bees who collect nectar and can sting you... But they only sting if they are threatened.