Eco Education Activities for Schools
bringing Eco education to Schools
Why do we need Eco Education in Schools?
Embedding Eco-education into schools is crucial for fostering awareness and understanding of the natural world in future generations. Environmental education helps young people be aware of the impact humans have on their environment. It equips students with knowledge about sustainability, conservation, and the importance of protecting ecosystems. In schools, eco-education helps shape environmentally responsible citizens. This can empower students, helping them to make informed decisions about issues like climate change, pollution and resource management.
By engaging in eco education, schools can promote critical thinking, encourage sustainable practices and prepare students for future challenges. BIEE believes that schools play a pivotal role. They cultivate a generation that is conscious of the environment. They also encourage students to be proactive in preserving it for future generations. Through our high quality workshops and tailor-made sessions, we can integrate into your curriculum to help your students to bee inspired!
BIEE Activities for Schools
We offer a range of environmental education options and activities for schools. All BIEE activities can be specifically tailored to age and ability and adapted to particular curriculum topics. Bee Inspired Eco Education is committed to making these sessions accessible to all so please see our Pricing and Inclusion policies for information on discounts available.
We have plenty of other activities that we offer outside the school setting as well. Just head over to the activities hub to bee inspired!
What’s the buzz?
A one hour class session with an introductory presentation/quiz including a demonstration hive (no live bees) plus a short activity or honey tasting
Bee Immersed
A half day session that includes, and expands on, ‘What’s the buzz’. With more time comes more hands-on activities and a greater depth of learning
Buzz-like-a-bee
An after-school club that runs over six weeks. The sessions are informative, fun and educational and kids come away buzzing with inspiration!
Host-a-hive
All the benefits of an on-school beehive, without the stress! Host one of our hives for the summer season and we will help the kids to nurture their guests
What’s the buzz
Workshop details
Bee Inspired Eco Education can come into your school to provide an eco education workshop, tailored to your pupils age, ability and needs. We will deliver an engaging 60 minute session where children can learn in a fun and interesting way about bees and other pollinators.
After an introductory presentation, the children can show off their knowledge with a quiz. We will bring various beekeeping equipment, including a demonstration hive (no live bees), for the children to explore. The session will finish with a short activity or honey-tasting – from £60
Multiple session discounts
Why not book Bee Inspired Eco Education to come to your school for a full morning or afternoon session? We can offer 3 hour long repeated sessions for different classes – from £160
Presentation/Quiz
There are so many bee and pollinator facts to learn! Find out how much everyone knows in a fun and informative way.
Activities
Get hands on, making seed balls to empower your pupils with practical ways they can to combat the climate crisis.
Honey tasting
Always a favourite with the kids, reward and reinforce their experience with a taste of the good stuff!
“Class 2 were so excited and interested by Kate the Bee-Keeper’s visit! She told them lots of fun and interesting facts, showed them all kinds of strange beekeeping equipment that they had never seen before and encouraged them to appreciate and care about the bees in our environment. The children loved Kate’s bee quiz – who knew that there was such a thing as a hairy-footed flower bee? She even brought them some honey to taste. The children were astonished to learn how hard the bees had worked to make every little sticky dip!”
Mrs Wyles, class 2
Bee immersed
Workshop details
Fully immerse your class in the world of bees with this half-day workshop. With three hours, we can really bring learning to life. The session starts with a presentation and quiz so children can learn and show off their knowledge of bees and other pollinators. We will bring along lots of beekeeping equipment for the pupils to see, including a demonstration Hive (no live bees).
Focusing on the honeybee, you will enjoy creative and practical workshops tailored to your class, as well as getting to taste the sweet stuff – from £200
Presentation/Quiz
How many pollinators can you name? Can you identify different types of bees? Forget your A-game, you’ll need your bee-game to win at this quiz!
Activities
We have lots of different educational and fun activities to help inspire, eg life-cycle plates, candle-rolling, seed-ball making and bee-hotel construction
Honey tasting
Set the benchmark for the favourite class memory of the year. Get stuck in to the good stuff and reward some great learning with golden honey!
Observation hive
During the summer months (May to September), Bee Inspired Eco Education can bring in a live observation hive as part of the half-day workshop.
The bees will be fully enclosed (nothing flying) in a glass-sided hive so the children can get up close. Will they be able to spot the queen? – from £250
Buzz-like-a-bee
Sign up for a 6 week after-school club programme. Sessions are informative, fun and educational. Each week will involve an aspect of learning either about essential pollinators or a component of protecting our planet plus a practical or creative activity. Get in touch to discuss prices and locations. The after-school clubs will either be hosted at schools or at a community location in North Leeds.
Bee Inspired Eco Education is committed to making these sessions accessible to all so please see our Pricing and Inclusion policies for information on discounts available.
Host-a-hive
Want a school beehive?
Looking after honeybees, whilst extremely rewarding, can be time-consuming and challenging. In practice, ‘the bees don’t read the books’ and often things don’t go quite to plan. If your school wants to consider a permanent apiary, we would recommend at least 3 staff members follow a BBKA (British Beekeepers Association) Beginners course. Furthermore, you need to consider that a large part of the active honeybee season will be in the school summer holidays. It is a lot of work and a big commitment, therefore it is usually unrealistic.
BIEE Host-a-hive
We have a fantastic alternative – benefit from the amazing learning opportunities offered by our incredible pollinators without the stress through BIEE’s Host-a-hive programme!
Initial assessment
We will visit your site in the first half of spring term to discuss your requirements and assess the site suitability and make recommendations.
Learning to buzz
During the second half of spring term (prior to Easter break), we will run a 6 week programme either during school-time for full classes (recommended for years 4/5) or as an after-school club which would be funded by parents/carers.
We will teach the children about the intricacies of looking after honeybees (along with learning about other pollinators, biodiversity and looking after our environment).
Here come the bees
During the Easter holidays, we will carefully relocate a small colony of honeybees to your site, and then the fun begins!
Live – love – learn
The colony will require weekly inspections. Bee Inspired Eco Education will come in and help the pupils to tend to their bee-guests – again this could either be school-funded or parent/carer funded as an after-school club.
Honey harvest
If all goes well, and the weather is favourable with ample forage, the bees may produce some surplus honey. We can extract it towards the end of the summer term, allowing all participants to taste the result of their combined hard work with the bees.
Time to bee off
At the end of the summer term, we will relocate the hive to the BIEE out-apiary in a countryside location, allowing the bees to continue their summer buzziness and prepare for overwintering.
Please contact us to discuss prices and boundless possibilities!
Need help with funding activities for schools?
All prices quoted are inclusive of travel expenses within Leeds postal code area. Prices may increase if you have particular tailored requirements that involve additional planning or equipment/workshop materials.
As a community interest company, we are passionate about the environment and ensuring that our workshops and clubs are accessible by the whole community. We don’t want cost to be a barrier to inspiring a love of bees and the environment in our children and young adults.
BIEE would like to make our activities accessible to as many children and schools as possible so we are constantly striving to access grants to allow us to offer low or no-cost (grant-funded) activities. If your school would like to organise an activity but are unable to allocate any budget without additional funding, please get in touch. We will reach out to those who register an interest as and when funding is made available. Note that schools with a high pupil premium will be given priority.