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This is our first project which links with a local school. At Thomas Tallis School in Kidbrooke a group of staff are being trained as beekeepers so that the hive being made by the Technology department can be populated with bees in July. From September the aim is to get a group of interested students and staff trained in beekeeping. Then the hive will be available as a resource in science and humanities and of course the honey and wax will be put to a range of uses. You will be able to follow the progress of this project right here...and of course help guide it or even become involved yourself.

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Click here to have a look at the film showing the taster session involving staff from Thomas Tallis and be sure to leave your comments...
(last updated June09)

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Training day 1: The first training day included the sex life of bees, colony life, frame making and the first practical session where we all got our hands on the bees for the first time. As a special treat we got to re-home a swarm and we met the colony that will be the first Tallis bees who will move in later this term. Click here to take a look at Episode 2 of streetbees and be sure to leave a comment.
(last updated 1July09)

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Onwards and ever upwards with this project. Training day 2 included more sex life of bees, building a hive from flatpack, checking on the Tallis colony and having a look at the busy swarm we re-homed in Training day 1. Amazing the amount of work they have done in a week, puts us humans to shame. And as a special treat we see a new baby bee being born... Click here to have a look at the 3rd Episode in the video diary.
(last updated 12July09)

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The final day of training arrives and the group learn to safely use the smoker, then on a routine inspection of hives discover a Queen has moved above the queen excluder and is laying eggs in the honey store area. This has caused a large number of drones to die trying to get up to the super to be with her, the group have to work quickly to find the queen and return her to the brood box. Click here to see how the rescue goes...
(last updated 28July09)

Streetbees arrive at Tallis...

Having completed the training the group are now ready to safely receive their first colony of bees at Thomas Tallis School. The swarm they rehomed just 2 weeks ago are moving in at SE3. This short clip shows how settled the bees are and how calmly they can be moved location...but remember move your bees 3 feet or 3 miles, anything in between and they cannot orientate themselves. Click here to see the arrival.
(last updated 30 July09)

Streetbees at Tallis : Hive inspection reports.

You can keep up to date with the hive inspection reports for streetbees at Tallis by clicking here to go to the Tumblr online blog which holds voice recordings, photos, movies and text reports of the latest information.
(last updated 30July09)

Streetbees at Tallis : The out-takes...just for fun.

Having been recording a video diary for over a month we have gathered quite a few funny moments so thought we would put them together to show how much fun the group had training as beekeepers... Click here to have a laugh at the group's expense.
(last updated 31July09)

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