Bees Prove a Hit in the Classroom

You may have seen reports that reports of a dramatic decline in the population of honeybees, due to disease and poor weather conditions, and that English honey is set to run dry by Christmas. As well as denying us a favourite spread, this is a serious problem for agriculture where bees are relied upon to pollinate many of the UK’s food crops.  

Rowse Honey has responded by launching beeschool.co.uk - a comprehensive online education resource to help teachers, children and parents learn more about the honey making story and raise awareness of the importance of the honey bee on the environment.

Working with teachers, Rowse Honey has developed the downloadable teaching resources in line with the national curriculum. The creative and interactive tool helps teachers and children understand the fascinating story behind honey in an entertaining and educational manner, with a selection of worksheets which focus on Science, History, Art, Literacy, Numeracy, Geography and Music. Easy to download, the free, key stage one teaching resources have already proved to be a big hit with primary schools:

The Rowse Honey education materials are available to download from www.beeschool.co.uk. Even better, Rowse Honey is also giving away a free honey tasting kit to every school who requests one via the bee school website.  The only thing is - just how many of these are going to get beyond the staff room?!