The programme

Eight stages. One Community Climate Adaptation Plan.

A hands-on school-to-community journey that helps young people understand local climate and hazard risk, learn from nature, gather community knowledge, design practical adaptation actions – and create a living plan for their place.

Bring it to your school

Bee Resilient is a hands-on school-to-community programme that helps young people understand local climate and hazard risk, learn from nature, gather community knowledge, design practical adaptation actions and create a living Community Climate Adaptation Plan for their place.

The journey, stage by stage

Each stage answers one question – and builds one piece of the plan.

Students move through all eight in order, in the classroom, at the hive and in the garden, with a breakout Resilience Lab woven in wherever it fits the stage.

01

Bee-longing

Our Place

02

Our Changing Climate

Our Story

03

Bee Prepared

Know Our Risks

04

Nature Knows

Read the Signals — see Resilience Labs

05

Community Voices

Listen First

06

Adapt & Innovate

Imagine Solutions

07

The Bee Test

Choose Priorities

08

Forests of Resilience

Act & Share — see Hive Legacy

Each stage has its own set of questions, worksheets and facilitation notes, building directly into your school's Community Climate Adaptation Plan. We walk every partner school through the full detail when we bring the programme to them – or, if you'd rather run it yourselves, we train your own facilitators to deliver it.

Talk to us about your schoolSee the shape of the Community Plan

The tangible outcome — seven steps to one plan

Our Place, our risks, our strengths, our voices, our ideas – our plan, our action.

Every school that runs Bee Resilient leaves with a living Community Climate Adaptation Plan — not a worksheet filed away, but a working document and a register of actions the students carry forward themselves. Each step is built at a different stage of the journey above, so the plan grows as it goes.

Our Place→ Our Risks→ Our Strengths→ Our Voices→ Our Ideas→ Our Plan→ Our Action
Bees flying home to a painted school hive
Our Place

Community Portrait

Our Risks

Climate & Resilience Timeline + Risk Map

Our Strengths

Environmental Baseline

Our Voices

Community Needs & Knowledge Summary

Our Ideas

Student Adaptation Proposals

Our Plan

Adaptation Priorities

Our Action

A living plan, not a document that sits in a drawer

Everything converges into one plan, launched at Community Bee Day and carried forward as a real action register the students – and their Hive Legacy – keep returning to. We share the worksheets, facilitation notes and the action-register template directly with partner schools.

Built on strong foundations

What the programme keeps from Leigh School.

Our team: Grass Esposti (Co-founder — Beekeeping & Bee Education), Dr Ngaire Hart (Chief Pollinator — Native Bee Science, AUT · Ngāti Wai — Ngāro Huruhuru), Kelly Hamilton (Co-founder & Programme Director — Community, Grants & Media) and Michelle Esposti (Worker Bee — Hands-On Support & Early Childhood Outreach)