Year 7s' Waggle Dance for World Bee Day

To mark this year’s World Bee Day on 20 May, 7P spent their Wild Friday session learning all about the fascinating world of bee ecology and conservation.

They discussed the importance of bees for maintaining biodiversity and food security through their role as pollinators. We also learnt how the changing landscapes, farming practices, and gardening habits have impacted on population numbers, and ways we can support bee species in the UK.

The girls were amazed to learn how bees can communicate where to find the best flowers, including both distance and direction, by 'dancing'. The highlight of the afternoon came when they successfully managed to communicate the location of a food store hidden on the school site to the other ‘bees’ in their group, by performing their own waggle dances.

Dr Turner