After closely observing the Honeybee’s features by learning how to draw and enlarge a smaller picture of this amazing insect, it has been exciting to see where our ‘Importance of Bees’ investigation is taking us. World Bee Day happened to fall on 20^th May. After a class discussion, we decided to design and make posters to mark this day. We watched a few videos to learn why bees are important for pollinating flowers as well as providing us with honey.

Some of us have even used our own lunch time to collaborate and create more posters and formed a ‘Bees Club’, as well as spotting Bumble Bees in the playground. Susannah and Molly, with the help of Mrs Heerey, have prepared our ‘Bee Friendly’ garden bed with straw and cow manure, and we are ready to work together in groups to plant some flowers and herbs. Next step is to dig deeper and find out more why and how bees need to be valued more – “I wonder why people kill bees…” Molly, Year 3.

We have also been very busy learning how and why good writers use speech marks to show direct speech between characters when writing narratives. Puppets, cartoons, speech bubbles have been tools we have used to help further our understanding.