Three-year-old Ted’s strong fascination with bees led to the children and staff at Osmotherley Pre-school in North Yorkshire finding out more about these important plant pollinators.
‘Ted is very bee orientated and has been involved with them from a very early age because of his granddad who is a well-known beekeeper in the area,’ explains manager Gill Hunton.
‘Ted loves bees and knows so much about them. We only have 20 children attending the pre-school so we can really focus on children’s interests and draw other children in. We are a rural setting and incorporate forest school philosophy into our everyday routines along with Reggio Emilia. We aim to look after each other, our community and the planet, so investigating bees weaves through our philosophy.
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