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Junior Beekeeper Experience
£160 per session | Up to 90 minutes | Ages 5–11
Bring the world of beekeeping into your classroom
The Junior Beekeeper Experience is an interactive school workshop from Project Apis CIC, designed to give primary-age children a fun, practical introduction to bees, beekeeping, pollinators and the natural world.
This isn't a session where children simply sit and listen to a talk.
We bring the beekeeping experience to your school and give pupils the chance to step into the role of a beekeeper.
Children can put on real beekeeping suits, explore beekeeping equipment and gather around our specially built demonstration hive while the sounds of a working honeybee colony play around them.
At the centre of the experience is our digital bee frame – a real beekeeping frame containing a screen showing footage from inside a honeybee colony.
Children can carefully lift the frame from the demonstration hive, examine the moving bees on the comb and learn what a beekeeper would actually be looking for during an inspection.
What happens during the session?
The experience combines interactive learning, demonstrations, questions and hands-on activities.
Children can discover:
How a honeybee colony works
The different roles of the queen, workers and drones
What happens inside a beehive
How beekeepers inspect and care for their colonies
What beekeeping suits and equipment are used for
How bees communicate and work together
What honeycomb, beeswax and foundation look and feel like
How pollination works
Why flowers and habitats are important
The difference between honeybees, bumblebees and solitary bees
Simple ways children and schools can support pollinators
Become a Junior Beekeeper
One of the main parts of the experience gives children the chance to dress as beekeepers and take part in a simulated hive inspection.
With the hive sounds playing, pupils can work around our demonstration hive, use the digital bee frame and experience some of the sights and sounds associated with working with a real colony.
A demonstration smoker effect can also be used to help explain another important piece of beekeeping equipment.
Up to 10 children can wear our beekeeping suits at one time.
For larger classes or groups, pupils can rotate through the practical activities so more children have the opportunity to get involved.
More than just honeybees
Honeybees are only part of the pollinator story.
We also introduce children to bumblebees, solitary bees and the importance of habitat, flowers and wider environmental action.
The aim is to help children understand not only what beekeepers do, but how bees and other pollinators fit into the world around them.
Designed for primary schools
Recommended age: 5–11 years
Session length: Up to 90 minutes
Price: £160 per session – not per pupil
Location: Delivered at your school
The language and activities can be adapted to suit the age of the pupils taking part.
The session is designed to complement learning around science, living things, habitats, pollination, biodiversity, nature and environmental sustainability, while keeping the experience practical, visual and memorable.
What's included?
Interactive bee and pollinator workshop
Demonstration beehive
Digital bee frame showing real colony footage
Hive sound experience
Children's beekeeping suits
Demonstration smoker effect
Real beekeeping equipment
Comb, wax, foundation and other educational resources
Practical role-play
Bee and pollinator activities
Questions and discussion
Junior Beekeeper certificates where included with the session
Travel within 25 miles of Great Yarmouth is included in the session price.
For schools further away, the following travel supplement applies:
Up to 25 miles: Included
26–40 miles: +£25
41–60 miles: +£50
61–80 miles: +£75
Over 80 miles: Please contact us for a travel quote
Distances are based on the one-way road journey from Great Yarmouth.
Any exceptional parking, toll or similar travel costs will be discussed and agreed before the booking is confirmed.
£160 per school session
Your booking also supports the wider work of Project Apis CIC, helping us continue creating opportunities for people to learn about bees, pollinators and the natural world.
Interested in bringing the Junior Beekeeper Experience to your school?
Get in touch to discuss availability and your class or year group.
info@project-apis.co.uk
01493 516003
Project Apis CIC – Nature. Connection. Community.
£160 per session | Up to 90 minutes | Ages 5–11
Bring the world of beekeeping into your classroom
The Junior Beekeeper Experience is an interactive school workshop from Project Apis CIC, designed to give primary-age children a fun, practical introduction to bees, beekeeping, pollinators and the natural world.
This isn't a session where children simply sit and listen to a talk.
We bring the beekeeping experience to your school and give pupils the chance to step into the role of a beekeeper.
Children can put on real beekeeping suits, explore beekeeping equipment and gather around our specially built demonstration hive while the sounds of a working honeybee colony play around them.
At the centre of the experience is our digital bee frame – a real beekeeping frame containing a screen showing footage from inside a honeybee colony.
Children can carefully lift the frame from the demonstration hive, examine the moving bees on the comb and learn what a beekeeper would actually be looking for during an inspection.
What happens during the session?
The experience combines interactive learning, demonstrations, questions and hands-on activities.
Children can discover:
How a honeybee colony works
The different roles of the queen, workers and drones
What happens inside a beehive
How beekeepers inspect and care for their colonies
What beekeeping suits and equipment are used for
How bees communicate and work together
What honeycomb, beeswax and foundation look and feel like
How pollination works
Why flowers and habitats are important
The difference between honeybees, bumblebees and solitary bees
Simple ways children and schools can support pollinators
Become a Junior Beekeeper
One of the main parts of the experience gives children the chance to dress as beekeepers and take part in a simulated hive inspection.
With the hive sounds playing, pupils can work around our demonstration hive, use the digital bee frame and experience some of the sights and sounds associated with working with a real colony.
A demonstration smoker effect can also be used to help explain another important piece of beekeeping equipment.
Up to 10 children can wear our beekeeping suits at one time.
For larger classes or groups, pupils can rotate through the practical activities so more children have the opportunity to get involved.
More than just honeybees
Honeybees are only part of the pollinator story.
We also introduce children to bumblebees, solitary bees and the importance of habitat, flowers and wider environmental action.
The aim is to help children understand not only what beekeepers do, but how bees and other pollinators fit into the world around them.
Designed for primary schools
Recommended age: 5–11 years
Session length: Up to 90 minutes
Price: £160 per session – not per pupil
Location: Delivered at your school
The language and activities can be adapted to suit the age of the pupils taking part.
The session is designed to complement learning around science, living things, habitats, pollination, biodiversity, nature and environmental sustainability, while keeping the experience practical, visual and memorable.
What's included?
Interactive bee and pollinator workshop
Demonstration beehive
Digital bee frame showing real colony footage
Hive sound experience
Children's beekeeping suits
Demonstration smoker effect
Real beekeeping equipment
Comb, wax, foundation and other educational resources
Practical role-play
Bee and pollinator activities
Questions and discussion
Junior Beekeeper certificates where included with the session
Travel within 25 miles of Great Yarmouth is included in the session price.
For schools further away, the following travel supplement applies:
Up to 25 miles: Included
26–40 miles: +£25
41–60 miles: +£50
61–80 miles: +£75
Over 80 miles: Please contact us for a travel quote
Distances are based on the one-way road journey from Great Yarmouth.
Any exceptional parking, toll or similar travel costs will be discussed and agreed before the booking is confirmed.
£160 per school session
Your booking also supports the wider work of Project Apis CIC, helping us continue creating opportunities for people to learn about bees, pollinators and the natural world.
Interested in bringing the Junior Beekeeper Experience to your school?
Get in touch to discuss availability and your class or year group.
info@project-apis.co.uk
01493 516003
Project Apis CIC – Nature. Connection. Community.