Heritage Lottery Fund grant is the bees knees!
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has
stepped in to help stop the serious decline in the country's bumblebee
population. Today HLF announced a grant of £340,000 for an ambitious project by
the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, based at Stirling University, to conserve a
variety of endangered bumblebee species and their habitats throughout the UK.
Bumblebees are fundamental to our
ecosystem: hundreds of species of wildflower, fruits such as raspberries, strawberries
and tomatoes and vegetables such as runner beans are dependent on them for
pollination. The total value of pollination in the UK exceeds £400 million.
However, over the last 70 years there has been a dramatic decrease in their
population, with two species becoming totally extinct and six of the remaining
24 species now listed as UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UK BAP) priority species.
A male Bombus subterraneus. This species is now extinct in the UK (Fiona Barclay).
HLF's grant will enable the Bumblebee
Conservation Trust to begin a three-year conservation project, helping to
protect the bumblebees and their habitat for the future. Working with
landowners, farmers, the public and schools across the UK, the project will
raise awareness of these important pollinators and help inform people on how
best to protect them. Flower-rich habitat will be provided where it is needed
most to reconnect the small isolated populations while a extensive
awareness-raising programme, including an interactive website, community talks,
learning packs for children, and a national wildlife self-assessment garden
scheme, will be rolled out across the country.
Your task
The heritage Lottery Fund is offering money to schools to support them in their bee conservation projects. Write a letter to the Heritage lottery fund explaining what we could do in our school to help the bees and how we would use any money we were given for the project. Remember to use :
The heritage Lottery Fund is offering money to schools to support them in their bee conservation projects. Write a letter to the Heritage lottery fund explaining what we could do in our school to help the bees and how we would use any money we were given for the project. Remember to use :
- Paragraphs
- Connectives
- Generalisers
- Scientific
vocabulary
I look forward to reading them and
sending them off.
Enjoy the holidays!
Miss Joseph
Dear Heritage Lottery Fund,
ReplyDeleteI am Annabella and I go to Chatsworth Primary School.
We could have a little enclosure for bees,their will be lots of flowers for them however people would have to look after the flowers and bees occasionally.We could have a bee house for them.It'll kind of be like a green house in garden but instead of glass we'll have mesh.
My school has a woodland walk,we could put a little patch of hives for bees along side with some flowers.
There will be no smoke.
Hope you like my idea.
Form Annabella
S .Ashvin
ReplyDelete16 Ellerdine road
Hounslow
Tw3 2pl
06.04.14.
Dear,
Heritage lottery fund,
I am a chatsworth primary school student.
I would like to give a little bit amount of money to protect the bumble bee in their save life in the future . Another things i could make a hive for the bumble bees make sure you could put the bees habitat on top of the place because nobody can,t damage the habitat.
In my school we,ve got a back garden we can make them fly a round the garden. We had a lots of flowers in there so they can drink honey from the flower also they could make a bee house in the garden.
I hope maybe you could accept my opinion.
thank you ,
your sincerely
s. ashvin
Dear heritage lottery fund,
ReplyDeletemy name is Ali, I'm from Chatsworth Primary School.
What I thought was that we could find the best habitat for bees, find an open space in our school field, keep the bees there and we could call it the bees' place. We could also grow some flowers near the habitats of which the bees take their food from.
The habitat could be in a big enough mini house for the bees. There could be windows (small no glass) on the sides of the house so they can just fly out (it shuts
every 5 mins so that the don't all fly away) but the flowers will stop them from flying out because they will block the windows.
I hope you will like it.
Yours sincerely,
Ali.K
Dear heritage lottery fund
ReplyDeleteI think we should make a new garden for the bees with lots of flower's so they can make more honey.We can get a nest for the bees to sleep in we can put it in the
tree so the nest will be safe.We can make a habitat on the trees or the on the grass it will be good for the bees.
I really like your paragraphs
DeleteHi my name is Laiba from a lovely school named Chatsworth.
ReplyDeleteI would love to tell you all about what I think will help our lovely stripy friends,
even though bees are scary to some of you you should allow them have a lovely habitat.
bees should have a wide open space and nowhere where they would get harmed
like: a field, a garden, or a quiet park.
yours sincerely Laiba.A
Thats good Laiba
Delete69 Hall Road
ReplyDeleteIsleworth
TW7 7PB
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am a pupil at Chatsworth Primary School and I would like to share a few of my ideas with you regarding increasing the bumblebee population. Chatsworth is already a very green school : we grow a range of plants and we have repeative outdoor learning classes. One idea would be to grow a variety of bumblebee attracting plants in an aria of our field, with a stream running through it. Opposite this there could be a wooden hut with binoculars, where you could sit and observe the bumblebees at a safe distance, where nether you or the bumblebees get hurt.
Another idea would be to educate the children and the parents of our school to know why and how we have to protect the bees.
Yours Sincerely Aceise Khangura
Hi Aceise I liked your letter.
DeleteStar:Good vocabulary:increasing
Wish:Could of explained about how Chatsworth is a very green school.
Dear Heritage Lottery Fund
ReplyDeleteMy name is Harshil Shah and I am in year 4 at Chatsworth Primary School in Hounslow.
Our school will be very pleased if you gave us some money towards the protection of bees. We have many new exciting ideas to help the bees flourish in our woodland and greenfield areas:
(1) We will make a bee hotel by tying together two bamboo canes, making gaps under paving slabs and drilling holes in wood. We will put all these items in our Jubilee Corner on the playing field.
(2) We have a large green playing field. On one side there are back gardens of houses. On this side we will plant flowers for each season so that the bees have something to eat all year round. These flowers will be planted in a 3 metre strip of un-mown grass and the area will be fenced off so that the kids cannot go there.
In the winter we will grow bluebells, winter honeysuckle, primrose and daffodils.
In the spring we will grow honeysuckle, poppies, crocuses and fox gloves.
In the summer we will grow golden rods, cornflowers, lavender and sunflower.
In the autumn we will grow mint, oregano and common heather.
(3) On the exposed brick walls of school buildings we will grow honeysuckle to attract bees.
(4) In our outdoor learning area we will grow herb plants and fruit trees that will include basil, bee balm, mint, strawberries, raspberries and cherries.
I hope you like these suggestions to help with bee conservation project and will support our school.
Yours sincerely
Harshil Shah
HI my name is Ayman.
ReplyDeleteWe could make a patch of flowers which attract bees so they can breed again succesfully
Yours Sincerely Ayman Ahmad
Ayman this letter has some good ideas but it is very short. Can you try to describe your ideas a little more and write in paragraphs?
DeleteHello my name is Gresa
ReplyDeletecould make a hive and put some flowers we could do it in the woodlin walk there is a lot of trees there and some flowers. we can also do the idea on the filed in the big gaps the teachers say we can't go in there so now one can harm them and there are lots of flowers there, probably we can do it where the betal hotel is .
Near by the year threes we can do it where we did the experiment it is sunny there most times there it really looks nice for bees to live there I think that is what I am thinking I do not know if it is a good idea.