Belvedere Parkway School（贝尔维德公园酒店学校）荣获“艾伯塔省首个蜜蜂城市学校”的殊荣！他们刚刚从加拿大蜜蜂城市组织的主管Shelly Candel那里获得了官方认可。学生们为能有机会与受托人Trina Hurdman和Shelly分享他们的辛勤工作、知识和热情感到非常兴奋，Shelly最近专程飞往多伦多为贝尔维德公园学校亲自颁发加拿大蜜蜂城市学校认证。

传粉者是我们生态系统中最基本的组成部分之一，如蜜蜂城市（Mason bees）等孤立蜜蜂在授粉花朵和植物方面比蜜蜂高出85％-95％的效率。他们的角色至关重要，但往往被忽视。

贝尔维德公园学生和他们的老师Gillon女士和Mang女士希望能吸引这些蜜蜂在贝尔维德公园学习花园附近定居。每年，学生们都会种植、培育和分享各种蔬菜和植物，作为他们学校项目丰富化的一部分。家长和学校委员会对这项工作的支持至关重要，他们对将孤立蜜蜂引入我们的学习环境也感到兴奋。

三年级、四年级和五年级学生的生态领导项目“如果我们建造，它们会来吗？”是围绕为孤立蜜蜂和其他传粉者建造家园以及种植当地和土著花卉和植物以吸引它们到贝尔维德公园学习花园的工作。该项目将在六月份的市长博览会上分享。

Belvedere Parkway School has achieved the accolade as the ‘First Bee City School in Alberta!’ They have just received their official recognition from the director of Bee City Canada, Shelly Candel. Students were thrilled with the opportunity to share their hard work, knowledge and enthusiasm with trustee Trina Hurdman and Shelly when she recently flew in from Toronto to present the Bee City Canada School certification.

Pollinators are one of the most fundamental blocks of our eco-system and solitary bees, such as Mason bees, are 85% - 95% more effective than honey bees in pollinating flowers and plants. Their role is crucial and significantly overlooked.

Students and their teachers Mrs. Gillon and Mrs. Mang hope to attract these bees to settle beside the Belvedere Parkway Learning Gardens where students plant, nurture and share a variety of vegetables and plants every year as part of their school program enrichment. Parents and School Council are an important part of the support for this work and are also excited about the addition of solitary bees to our learning landscape.

Grade 3, 4 and 5 students’ Eco Leader Project ‘If we build it, will they come?’ spear headed the work around building homes for solitary bees and other pollinators and planting local and indigenous flowers and plants to attract them to the Belvedere Parkway Learning Gardens. That project will be shared at the Mayor’s Expo in June.