Heron Hill School
  • Our School
    • Vision - Ethos - Values >
      • Staff
      • Safeguarding
      • Performance
      • Curriculum
    • Vacancies
    • Governors
    • Nursery >
      • Nursery Topics
    • Reception >
      • Reception Curriculum
    • Year 1 >
      • Year 1 Curriculum
    • Y2-Y6 Home Learning
    • Year 2 >
      • Year 2 Curriculum
    • Year 3 >
      • Year 3 Curriculum
    • Year 4 >
      • Year 4 Curriculum
    • Year 5 >
      • Year 5 Curriculum
    • Year 6 >
      • Year 6 Curriculum
  • New Admissions
    • Reception Starters >
      • Reception: Further Information
    • Nursery New Starters >
      • Nursery: Further Information
    • New Parents
  • Learning Zone
  • Parents
    • Home-School Communication
    • Internet Safety Information
    • Helping Your Child with Spelling
    • Helping Your Child with Maths
  • General Information
    • Wrap Around Care
    • Coronavirus - General Info
    • Term Dates
    • Bee Club >
      • Bee Blog
    • Lunch Menu
    • Calendar
    • Additional Activities
    • Newsletter
    • Uniform
    • School Policies
    • Pupil Premium
    • Severe Winter Weather
    • School Admissions Enquiry
    • Contact
  • Partnerships

The Bee Team hit the Big City!

7/12/2019

 
Four of our founding Bee Team members travelled to London this week to be presented with the 'Bees' Needs Champions Award' 
What an experience for four of our founding Bee Team children! Over the last 3 years they have worked weekends and holidays to care for our bees...even visited other schools to teach them about bees & beekeeping, so it was only fitting that these children represented school to collect our 'Bees' Needs Champions Award' for their contribution to beekeeping and encouraging pollinators in school. 

It was a long but wonderful day, leaving Kendal at 6.20 am to get to 'Carna'bee' Street in London to receive our award from Lord Gardiner the Under Secretary of State for the Environment & George McGavin, TV entomologist & environmental champion.  The children then had opportunity to work with The University of Reading, investigating how much of our food is pollinated by bees... They made seed bombs to bring back to school and gave their expert opinion in a honey tasting session!  
  It was then off to the Houses of Parliament to meet with Tim Farron, where we passed on a petition about Climate Change and spoke to him about plastic waste. The children presented him with some of their 'beeswax wraps' made with our bee's wax, part of a project they are running in school to reduce plastic waste with the help of our bees!  We had tea on the terrace and Mr Farron even sneaked us into watch a live debate in the House of Commons!  It was amazing!

It was a super day, the children were wonderful ambassadors for school and for beekeeping, we were so very proud of them all and incredibly thankful to Kendal Beekeepers and James from Virgin Trains for their support in making it all happen!  Thank you everyone! 
Picture
Picture
Receiving our award on Carna'bee' Street with Lord Gardiner & George McGavin Outside Westminster Palace after our Question and Answer session with Tim Farron
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Handing over the Heron Hill Petition on Climate Change to Tim Farron in the Houses of Parliament

Comments are closed.

    Welcome to the
    ​Bee Blog

    Picture

    Who's who?

    Head Beekeepers:
    Mrs Cottam
    Mrs Harper

    Beekeepers:
    Mrs Gorst


    Bee Inspector:
    Dr Piggot

    Archives

    February 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Contact  |  Ofsted  |  DfE  |  Policies  |  School Angel  | Site Policy | Cookie Policy | Sitemap
No part of this website, images or text can be reproduced without the school's express permission. Copyright Heron Hill Primary School © 2019

Heron Hill Primary School
Hayfell Avenue

Kendal
Cumbria
LA9 7JH

Tel 01539 721276

Picture
Web Login
 school website design by ​​​Üedit
  • Our School
    • Vision - Ethos - Values >
      • Staff
      • Safeguarding
      • Performance
      • Curriculum
    • Vacancies
    • Governors
    • Nursery >
      • Nursery Topics
    • Reception >
      • Reception Curriculum
    • Year 1 >
      • Year 1 Curriculum
    • Y2-Y6 Home Learning
    • Year 2 >
      • Year 2 Curriculum
    • Year 3 >
      • Year 3 Curriculum
    • Year 4 >
      • Year 4 Curriculum
    • Year 5 >
      • Year 5 Curriculum
    • Year 6 >
      • Year 6 Curriculum
  • New Admissions
    • Reception Starters >
      • Reception: Further Information
    • Nursery New Starters >
      • Nursery: Further Information
    • New Parents
  • Learning Zone
  • Parents
    • Home-School Communication
    • Internet Safety Information
    • Helping Your Child with Spelling
    • Helping Your Child with Maths
  • General Information
    • Wrap Around Care
    • Coronavirus - General Info
    • Term Dates
    • Bee Club >
      • Bee Blog
    • Lunch Menu
    • Calendar
    • Additional Activities
    • Newsletter
    • Uniform
    • School Policies
    • Pupil Premium
    • Severe Winter Weather
    • School Admissions Enquiry
    • Contact
  • Partnerships