"If you build it, they will come ... Bees that is!

Thanks to Mrs McDonald, (Ariel and Lucie – Stage 1) the school garden now has a Bee Hotel! Thanks also, to Mr Fuller for painstakingly and patiently, cutting the bamboo to size, to provide accommodation for the guests!

Then on Wednesday 20 March 2019 The Super Pollinators Incursion took place for Stage 1 students. The Incursion ran for 2 hours and included a 30 minute Presentation given by Abbie Mitchell from Kids Connecting Nature.  It was very entertaining and informative!

 

Abbie says: “The Super Pollinators Incursion is a great support to gardening programs and class studies exploring habitat, lifecycles, pollination or minibeasts (including bees of course!). In it we discuss bee life cycles, their important pollinating roles, and threats to bees and also showcase many of the 2000 native bee species we have in Australia. We also make a bee hotel suitable for about 24 bee species in the Sydney area. During the workshop the students have access to view over 100 preserved invertebrates under magnification and inspect models (large ‘pat-able' bee, and large model of carpenter bee lifecycle), posters, UV viewer (how a bee sees flowers) and related bee items (a preserved stingless bee nest, pollen and nectar reserves and even bee poo!)”

The Environment Team - Term 1, 2019

The Environment Team, for Term 1, wasted no time in making their presence felt in the garden! There was digging, watering, seed-saving and some serious weeding to do … it is always important to pull out the roots of those dead plants, even if it means calling on some extra help … a job well done!