Y3 – World Bee Day – Forest School

World Bee Day 2025 happened yesterday and to celebrate in school, pupils in Year 3 have been learning all about bees. Bees and other pollinators are increasingly under threat from human activities. Pollination is, however, a fundamental process for the survival of our ecosystems. Nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend, entirely, or at least in part, on animal pollination, along with more than 75% of the world’s food crops and 35% of global agricultural land. Not only do pollinators contribute directly to food security, but they are key to conserving biodiversity. To raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and their contribution to sustainable development, the UN designated 20 May as World Bee Day. Pupils learnt that bees play an important role in producing the food we eat through pollination and how bees make honey. They then had a range of activities to choose from all about bees – they could make a bee using pine cone and string, use their fingers, sticks and paint to create a picture of bees and flowers or use a hammer, cloth and buttercups to imprint the yellow dye to make miniature bees.

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