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UNBEELIEVABLE ART

A giant image of a bumblebee has been painted at a school in Yorkshire to celebrate this year's World Bee Day.

A drone image of a giant bee (pictured below)

Award-winning artists from Sand in your Eye painted a 196ft 10in (60m) piece of bee land art at Hebden Royd CE Primary School. They ued the same line paint and sprayers that are used to mark out the lines for football pitches.

The tean and pupils also created 90 paper bumblebees and helped to create a small meadow habitat to encourage bees and other pollinators to the school's playing field.

The huge- and bee-autiful- artwork was created to highlight how important it is to conserve and protect the UK's bumblebees.

The head teacher at Hebden Royd explained: "Bees play a vital role as pollinators; they pollinate the food we need to survive and pollinate many of the trees and flowers that provide essential habitats for wildlife.

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YOUNG ENGINEERS

By pupils from St Alban's Primary School, Surrey

At school we have been working with an engineer to create a model of a bridge with a moving element.

We were given a design brief of building a bridge that was over 1.5m long and 1.2m tall, as well as having a motor to allow the bridge to open and close.

St Albans pupils with their tower bridge model (pictured below)