This is a whole school

Teachers, Kate and Becky helped the school create a Social Signature.
Students learned about bees, raised funds for a local charity, and brought the community together through projects and crafts.

The school’s Social Signature lives on.

Having experienced the power and benefits of social action for herself, Kate, a head teacher, teamed up with Becky, who led on PHSE, to co-create a whole school social signature. 

They acquired a local piece of land and recognised, through the research they did, the importance of preserving the natural environment. In particular, they began exploring the critical role of bees and how their diminishing numbers were an impending threat to the ecosystem.

They contacted a local conservation and bee charity, and every pupil in the school got the opportunity to learn more about bees and participate in a campaign to raise awareness and funds to save the bees. Each class then linked their bee project to a curriculum subject and conducted more in-depth research into science, geography and nature. 

Pupils decided to then take it a step further and enlist the help of parents and grandparents, which also included relatives of the school staff, to knit hundreds of woollen bees, which were then sold with other gifts and crafts at a whole school celebration marketplace.

Financial support was then donated to the local conservation and bee charity, and a long-term relationship has been established between the school as a result of the project. 

A real buzz was created in school, and teachers even found out that some of their pupils actually kept bees themselves.