The Pollinator Project are kicking off their popular schools art competition again this year with some new prizes.
All primary school children in the Bailiwick are being invited to have their artwork shown in an exhibition this summer as part of an education initiative run by the Pollinator Project. The art and education project, which is supported by professional services business, Mourant, focuses this year on our 6 local bumblebee species.
Laura Harrison explained: “This is the second time we’ve featured bumblebees and we are really looking forward to sharing our films and favourite bumblebee facts with children in the primary schools across the Bailiwick. We’ll be talking about buzz pollination, how and why queen bumblebees find mouse holes, short tongues and long tongues and of course how important pollination is. They might be humble but bumblebees are a really important part of nature.”
Each year speakers from the Pollinator Project present to about 4000 children from age 2 to 10 by visiting 21 schools across Guernsey, Herm, Sark and Alderney, as well as home-schooled children. With 7000 competition entries over the last 5 years it’s a really popular programme. Everyone gets a bumblebee leaflet, free pollinator plant seed packs and there are posters for classrooms as well.
Laura continued: “With so many entries every year we are delighted to have been able to sponsor some new prizes this year for pre-schools and special education schools. There are prizes for the best designs, and the schools themselves and perhaps best of all personalised t-shirts printed with the winning design. We’re really looking forward to seeing the entries.”
Managing Partner of the Mourant Guernsey office, John Lewis, commented: “We are delighted to be sponsoring the Pollinator Project for the third year running. Environmental sustainability is of key strategic importance to our firm, and by actively championing grass roots educational initiatives such as this, Mourant aims to support a culture of environmental awareness and responsibility within the Guernsey and wider Channel Islands community.
“We look forward to seeing the results of the bumblebee art competition, and if the artwork is as impressive as last year it will be extremely tough to pick a winner!”
