What a visit can include
🐝 Life in the hive
The queen, workers and drones, how bees make honey and wax, and how a colony gets through the winter.
🧺 Kit to look at and try
An empty hive, frames of comb, a smoker and a bee suit for a volunteer to try on.
🌼 Bees and flowers
Pollination, why bees matter for our food, and how pupils can help bees at school and at home.
❓ Questions
Do bees sleep? Does it hurt to be stung? Children always have plenty of questions, and our beekeepers love answering them.
We can pitch the talk for anything from nursery and infants up to secondary school, and fit it to a science or topic lesson, an assembly or an eco club. No live bees come into the classroom.
Ask for a visit
Fill in the form and we'll put you in touch with a beekeeper near you. Our members are volunteers, so please give us a few weeks' notice and some possible dates. The best time is late spring to early autumn, when there's most to talk about, but we can visit at any time of year.
Prefer email? Write to info@wgbka.org. We only use your details to arrange the visit. See our privacy notice.
Other ways to get involved
- Plant bee-friendly flowers in the school grounds. Our this month section shows what bees are feeding on now.
- Look out for swarms in late spring and summer, and tell us if you see one.
- Teachers and parents who catch the bug can join our beginners' course.