New Weather Station Helps Beekeeping Club
March 17, 2025
With funding from the Friends of Norwich School (FONS), Beekeeping Club can monitor the health of the bees.
The Beekeeping Club continues to attract enthusiastic Lower School Pupils. This year we have increased our intake from twelve to fourteen and invited a number of Lower Three pupils to join us. Our intention is that they will continue into next year and begin to share their knowledge with the next Lower Threes.
We have also been very fortunate to have two Gold D of E students helping as part of their volunteering. This has proved to be very successful. We are also looking forward to welcoming back a past member of the Beekeeping Club, next term, to help as part of her Bronze award.
Both of these initiatives have been aided in the past by generous donations from the Friends of Norwich School and therefore, we are again delighted to share with you our latest addition to the Beekeeping Club, a Davis weather station.
The weather station enables us to keep a running record of the local weather. Why is this helpful? As the spring unfolds we will begin inspecting the bees once the temperature reaches a consistent ten degrees. Although this information is available from the national weather agencies it isn’t specific to our location. The weather station has a data recorder and so we can track the data over time. This is linked to a display which is currently being housed in the Library. In addition we will also be able to monitor wind, rain and pressure over time and with experience we hope to be able to link this to the bees’ behaviour.
As an added bonus the data is also available online and therefore can be used by other departments in the school, including the gardening club and sports staff for monitoring the weather on the Lower Close Astro and Jubilee Gardens.



