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Pointe-Claire High School ‘Green Team’ Excited About Final Product – Montreal

John Rennie’s “Environmental Team” flies around the galley. The students are in the final stages of their beekeeping project, measuring and melting their own honey and wax to make lip balm.

“When you hear that John Rennie does beekeeping, you think you’re either watching a teacher doing beekeeping or just seeing how beekeeping is done. It never occurred to me that I would actually enter the hive and retrieve the honey and so on.

It all started this spring when a curriculum club put on protective gear and got hands-on with a swarm of 7-year-old high school bees.

Jean-François Pépin, John Rennie’s teacher, said, “Beekeeping is wonderful for children. It helps them focus on their work when there are many distractions. At school, beekeeping is very useful for children. I think it will be useful for

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Two hives are currently being wrapped for the winter and the population is about 20,000. The numbers won’t recover until next spring.

“Usually, in the spring we start with maybe 10 to 15,000 bees, and in the summer we’ll reach 60 to 80,000,” Pepin told Global News.

No melisophobia or fear of bees here. Students are involved in every step of the project.

“We took measures to make it safer, like using hot air of steam to calm us down, which helped a lot. So it wasn’t something that scared us.” said seventh grader Maggie Castelli.

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Teens say they learned the importance of saving bees from extinction at each step.

“They don’t just produce honey and lip balm, they help us with all sorts of things, like our vegetation and flowers,” Castelli said.

The green team now waits for the beeswax lip balm to cool before selling it in the school store.

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“We’d love to have bees in our home, but you never know,” Racine said.


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Pointe-Claire High School ‘Green Team’ Excited About Final Product – Montreal

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