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Bring Bee Resilient to your school.

The school programme – piloted at Leigh School – leads everything we do. Register your interest below, or if you're already signed up, log in to write to our experts.

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Letters to the experts

Write a letter to one of our experts.

Choose who to write to. Each of them will read your letter and write back to your class.

Letters to Dr Ngaire Hart

Dr Ngaire

Native bees

Dr Ngaire Hart (Ngāti Wai), our native bee science expert. Ask what they eat, where they nest, and how we can help them.

Letters to Grass

Grass

Honeybees

Ask about the hive, the queen, how bees make honey and how a colony stays healthy.

Letters to Kelly

Kelly

Resilience

Kelly Hamilton, Bee Resilient co-founder and Chief Resilience Officer. Ask about preparedness, weather, and what our school and community can do to be ready.

Sample student letters and drawings written to the Bee Resilient experts about native bees

A few real questions Leigh School students have asked Dr Ngaire

  • How many eggs do native bees lay?
  • How does a queen bee get chosen?
  • Why do native bees live in the ground?
  • Can a bee pollinate every native flower?
  • What are the special tools (adaptations) native bees use to dig their burrows?

For Leigh School students, sent with your teacher. First names only, please – a teacher should read each letter before it is sent.

A photo of a drawing or something you found in the garden.

Our pilot school

Leigh School. Ako Tahi – learning and thriving together.

Leigh School is a small, close-knit school in the coastal village of Leigh, north of Auckland. Founded in 1874, it has a roll of around 60 children from New Entrants to Year 6, across three classroom pathways: Te Waipuna, Te Awa and Te Moana.

As an established Enviroschool, its students already observe, nurture and care for their environment – Garden to Table, Adopt a Park stewardship of Mathesons Bay, coastal clean-ups, native planting and Te Kohuroa monitoring. Bee Resilient builds on that kaupapa and the school's own emergency policies, rather than replacing them.

Atawhai – kindness · Manaakitanga – respect · Tiakitanga – responsibility

Visit leigh.school.nz
Leigh School students looking at beeswax and hive photos with a guide at BeeTopia
A student holding a pollinator made from leaves and twigs
Pollinators made from leaves and twigs.
A student holding up leaves found on a garden walk
Finding leaves on a garden walk.
A student sketching plants outdoors
Field sketching outdoors.
Students and teachers walking through a native garden
Exploring the native garden.
Students gathered around a table of beeswax and hive objects at BeeTopia
Hands-on at BeeTopia.
A student painting a honeycomb craft
Making honeycomb art.
Students handling yellow hive equipment
Learning the beekeeping tools.
A student's labelled flower dissection
Parts of a flower, labelled.

How the programme works

One journey, six integrated labs.

Native bee and biodiversity learning runs through all six – not just one session. Every school's programme is shaped around its own place and people, and leaves with its own Community Resilience & Nature Action Plan.

See what each lab covers

  1. 1
    Bee ZenCalm
  2. 2
    Bee CuriousDiscovery
  3. 3
    Bee PreparedReady
  4. 4
    Bee GroundedSoil
  5. 5
    Bee NativeBuild a Sanctuary
  6. 6
    Bee AdaptiveCommunity Solutions

Register your interest

Tell us about your school.

We'll be in touch about bringing the Six Resilience Labs to your students, training your own staff to facilitate the programme, or visiting BeeTopia, where classes can see the hive, the honey shed and the labs up close.

A beekeeper lighting a smoker before a hive visit