PUPILS at a primary school have been helping to create new environments to support bees.
Shobdon School received a grant of £990 from Kingspan Insulation's Planet Passionate Community Fund to purchase new equipment for their forest school.
This will help create new outdoor learning environments and "bee lines" - paths of wildflowers which will allow bees and other pollinators to travel between wildlife areas.
The equipment includes a pond dipping canopy, planters, water butts, and a variety of child-friendly colourful watering cans, jugs, pots, and a selection of flower seeds, vegetable seeds, and a thornless blackberry bush.
Fiona Dunstan, the school's ecology representative, said: "Shobdon School has been really excited about the Planet Passionate grant that was awarded to us.
"The children have been taking part in assemblies to learn about the need for building more bee lines, being planet passionate, and what parts they can play to become more environmentally aware.
"We have already erected the pond canopy and have made three planting beds which the children have enjoyed helping to fill.
"Our next target is to install our solar watering system for our greenhouse with our new water butts.
"We have also purchased the paint for our tyre bee line planters which we aim to start with the warmer weather."
The new equipment is helping to support the class curriculum with year two's plant lessons.
Since each child was given their own seed pack to plant, students will be able to watch their seeds grow, alongside their own growth and learning progress.
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