Recently, Year 5 was involved in a program to help students build an understanding of the importance  of our native pollinators, bees in particular, who are a huge asset to our environment. Bees are an enormous part of our immeasurable environment, as without bees a wide range of our flowers and plants would wither away easily and not be able to reproduce. Bees also contribute an immense amount of our everyday foods. Bees also keep our environment nutritious and thriving.

During the program we did an experiment to find some local animals around the Kindy Cola and we found way more than we expected. After the experiment, we decided to plant some native flowers and plants that attract many of our native bees and pollinators. Such as the Mountain Devil, the Lemon Honey Myrtle, Fuchsia and the Clustered Darrinia. These plants and flowers promote much more biodiversity in our playgrounds and school. It's important to invite a variation of pollinators and different creatures to our school in order to build a vivid and healthy world around us. In the future, if we stick to this program, this will not only be a school to learn but a beautiful environment for all.

How can we help our native pollinators? We can help them by planting the many plants and flowers that our pollinators are attracted to! These include the flowers that were suggested above. We learned so much about the B&B Highway Program and just how important these unique creatures really are, and Artarmon says a big thanks for their help. I hope that this passage encourages you to think more deeply about our environment and that your choices matter so make sure the decisions you make are appropriate.

To encourage more biodiversity or if you want to find out more information you can go to their website:

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From Elaine and Nora.