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We learned about the important part bees play in our environment. Click here to see all we learned about bees and biodiversity Then click on Bumblebee Conservation.org to learn even more.
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A Resource: The Importance of Bees
Photo Credit: Danny Perez Photography via Compfight Click on this link to see a wonderful resource that explains the importance of bees on BBC iWonder.
Flowers for Bees!
Green Schools: Biodiversity: Now it is Brigid’s turn to tell Polly all about Bees; the important job they do and how they are endangered.
Polly the Polar Bear, has come to visit St. Brigid’s Greystones, all the way from St. Peter’s in Bray. She has come to visit Brigid the Biodiversity Bee and has told her all about Polar Bears and why they are endangered. Now it is Brigid’s turn, to tell Polly all about bees. ‘Well first, […]
Green Schools: Biodiversity: Senior Infants learned about Bees and Pollination.
As part of learning about Biodiversity, Senior Infants have been learning about Bees and Pollination Senior Infants learned that … ‘Bees are very important insects. They pollinate flowers and plants. Many fruit and vegetables depend on bees to grow’.
A Mystery: Why are there less bees in the world?
A ‘Bee’ Mystery Photo Credit: Max Westby via Compfight In some parts of the world, for example the USA, the UK and Ireland honeybees are flying away from their hives and dying. Empty hives are causing a lot of worry about some important food crops. Scientists are trying to figure out why bees are dying. […]
What we learned about Honey Bees!
Honey bees help plants to make the fruit, vegetables and nuts we like to eat, by carrying pollen from one plant or flower to the next. Important crops like oats, corn and wheat are pollinated by the wind. But many other plants like apple trees, depend on birds, bats and insects. Bees don’t wake up […]
A List of Fruit & Vegetables pollinated by bees.
We did some research today and found out which fruits and vegetables are pollinated by bees. Photo Credit: Nancy Regan via Compfight This is the list: Fruit: Apple,Blackberry, Blueberry, Cherry, Grape Kiwi, Lemon, Lime, Peach, Pear, Plum, Raspberry, Strawberry, Watermelon, Vegetables Beans, Chilli Pepper, Onion, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Cucumber, Red and […]
The best flowers to attract bees!
Researchers in Sussex University have used an experimental garden to put pollinator-friendly plants to the test. They found that borage, lavender, marjoram and open-flower dahlias were very good for insects. The wallflower was also very attractive to pollinators, while the least attractive flowering plant for insects was the geranium. Marjoram was probably the best “all-rounder”, […]
No bees = no pollination = ?
If there were no bees there would be no pollination. If there was no pollination there would be less fruit and vegetables and our supermarket fruit and vegetable department would have much less for us to buy to eat. Click HERE for a closer look 😉
Learning about the ‘Busy Bees’
Photo Credit: Vince LoPresti via Compfight We here in St. Brigid’s, Greystones are working towards our 5th Green Flag. We are learning about Biodiversity. As part of this we are learning about the importance of bees and pollination. If you would like to learn about how pollination happens and about bees and other […]
Bees and Other Pollinators – Links to two short videos
Photo Credit: Karunakar Rayker via Compfight As part of learning about Biodiversity for our 5th Green Flag, we are learning about bees and pollination. Here are two videos on Vimeo. about bees and other pollinators. This first one is a very short animation from Oxford University Press. This clever animation is by Mark […]
Bees are gardeners too!
I was sitting in my garden having my lunch when a bee landed on the rosemary bush beside me. I watched it as it landed on each flower drinking the nectar and collecting the pollen. I wasn’t worried about being stung as we all know that bees will only sting you if provoked and then […]
Good news for bees!
Bee-harming pesticides banned in Europe Europe will enforce the world’s first continent-wide ban on widely used insecticides linked to serious harm in bees. Bees and other insects are vital for global food production as they pollinate three-quarters of all crops. The plummeting numbers of pollinators in recent years has been blamed on disease, loss of […]
Green Schools – Biodiversity
C. P. Ewing via Compfight In 2014 we earned our flag in Biodiversity. We learned to appreciate the world around us. In particular we learned a lot about bees and snow leopards.
Green Schools: The World In Our Hands
Photo Credit: Suus Wansink via Compfight The number of wild animals on Earth has halved in the past 40 years, according to a new report. The reasons for this include pollution, the destruction of habitats and animals being killed for food. So playing a part in keeping the world green has never been so […]
Polly the Polar Bear explains to Brigid how we can help the Polar Bears.
Photo Credit: Valerie via Compfight Polly the Polar Bear, has come to visit St. Brigid’s, Greystones all the way from St.Peter’s in Bray. She has come to visit Brigid the Biodiversity Bee and tell her all about Polar Bears and why they are endangered. Photo Credit: Valerie via Compfight Polly explained that ‘reducing our carbon […]
A Joint Project between St. Peter’s NS., Bray and St.Brigid’s NS., Greystones – Polly the Polar Bear and Brigid the Bee, tell us why their species are endangered.
But first the introductions: Polly the Polar Bear is going to teach us all about Polar Bears and how they are endangered. Brigid, our Biodiversity Bee is going to teach Polly all about bees and why they are threatened.
Green Schools: Biodiversity: Three things we found helpful when working towards our Green School Flag
If you are working towards a fifth Green Flag on Biodiversity, here are three things we found helpful. 1. Take a bow Brigid, the Biodiversity Bee. We found our Green Schools mascot really caught the students’ imaginations. The naming of Brigid also meant that everyone from Junior Infants up were familiar with that tricky word ‘Biodiversity’ and had […]
Threats to Biodiversity!
Biodiversity is important to us because it supplies Ecosystem services like clean air, clean water, food, textiles and medicines. But loss of biodiversity is happening all over the world. Losing a species can have a huge impact on other plants and animals that might depend on it and this is turn affects other habitats […]
Green Schools: Learning about Biodiversity – Linking with Other Schools
On Monday 10th February, 2014, Brigid the Biodiversity Bee, sent an invitation to Polly the Polar Bear care of 2nd Class in St. Peter’s, Bray to come and visit us in Greystones. On Tuesday 11th February, 2014, 2nd Class St. Peter’s posted this lovely photograph on Twitter. We were delighted our letter to Polly arrived safely. We […]
Our Biodiversity Action Day!
We held our Biodiversity Action day on May 22nd 2013 to mark International Biodiversity Day. Everyone turned up to help – parents, siblings, students, teachers, our caretaker and the green school committee. A few parents constructed the raised beds and donated the topsoil. We also had parents and transition year students from our local secondary […]
Come and visit the Pollination Station
On the top lobby on the back stairs there is a display about bees and pollination. We call it the Pollination Station. Included in the display is a pot of tulips. You can see the yellow pollen on the stamen. The stigma is also very easy to see on the tulip flowers. If you […]
Green Schools: Biodiversity: Useful posts on this blog.
Photo Credit: the_tahoe_guy via Compfight Have you got a question about Biodiversity? You might find the answer on the following links on our blog: What is Biodiversity? More on Biodiversity All about our Biodiversity Code! Games for the Whiteboard: Food Chains & the Balance of Nature! A Choice of Posts about the Snow Leopard What […]
Biodiversity: Revision Checklist
Sixteen school days until ALL the work we have done for our Fifth Green School Flag is assessed. Please check: If you need to revise, the Green Schools Blog is here to help. Put any of these key words into the search box Biodiversity, Code, Food chain, snow leopard, pollination or bees and you will […]
Our Biodiversity Code!
This is the winning Artwork from our Biodiversity Green Code competition: with the slogan: Don’t let species go extinct, in this world we are all linked’. The Green Schools committee had a meeting to discuss what exactly our Biodiversity code meant because we need to be able to explain to our classmates and our families […]
Our Biodiversity Mascot!
Meet our Biodiversity mascot – Biodiversity Bee! As we all know, bees are very important for Biodiversity. They pollinate flowers, plants and crops and without them this world would be a very different place. So with this in mind, we chose to have a bee as our mascot. She will be visiting every […]
Visit from Ireland’s leading Bird expert
Eric Dempsey, one of Ireland’s leading bird experts visited the school on 2nd December. He talked to 2nd, 3rd and 5th class about birds and biodiversity. We learnt all […]
What exactly does are Biodiversity Code mean?
Don’t let species go extinct, in this world we are all linked’. The Green Schools committee had a meeting to discuss what exactly our Biodiversity code meant because we need to be able to explain to our classmates and our families what it […]
Our Biodiversity Mascot!
Meet our Biodiversity mascot – Biodiversity Bee! As we all know, bees are very important for Biodiversity. They pollinate flowers, plants and crops and without them this world would be a very different place. So with this in mind, we chose to have a bee […]