--- title: "Twyford honey update" url: "https://www.twyford.org.uk/news/2024-12-02-twyford-honey-update" school: "Twyford CofE High School" --- [Twyford Sixth Form Open Evening will be on Thursday 12th November 2026. This will be a ticketed event, the online booking system will open on Thursday 5th November 2026 at 9:00 AM](https://buytickets.at/twyfordceacademiestrust/2510606) [Train to teach with Teach West London September 2027-28. Applications are now open. Learn more and apply today.](https://teachwestlondon.org.uk/initial-teacher-training/how-to-apply) # Twyford honey update ![Image of Twyford honey update](https://files.schudio.com/twyford-cofe-high-school/images/news/Honey_Label.png) 2 December 2024 ![](https://www.twyford.org.uk/images/news/TWY_bees.PNG) Last year we took no honey from the hives. One of the two colonies absconded in the balmy 2022 Autumn and the other struggled with a 3-year-old queen. We split that colony, raising a new queen in 2023 but much of the honey they produced wasn’t capped and we simply fed it back to the bees. With a new queen going into this year’s season, the single colony prepared to swarm in Spring, but we fortunately spotted this on the first day back after the Easter holidays and carried out an artificial swarm. The rest of the season went smoothly and students from year 7 and 9 and the sixth form helped with inspections. We have finally constructed the solar oven to purify the wax we have accumulated from over the year. It is yet to be used but we look forward to some hot weather to try it out. The honey was extracted by teachers from the Science department in the summer holidays and more recently filtered and bottled by year 8, 10 and 12 students. Unfortunately, the colder Autumn weather has meant some of the honey started to crystallise before passing through the muslin filter, resulting in more wax in a few of the jars. This is Twyford’s fifth crop having sold our first 27 jars at the 2019 Christmas concert. This year’s beautiful honey label has been produced by fine-art student Emily Moran in the sixth form. 2024 Twyford honey is available to buy on ParentPay now, with all profits going to the PTFA. In the first instance, there will be a limit of two jars per family. [PTFA](https://www.twyford.org.uk/news/tag/ptfa) [ Ignite 28 November 2024](https://www.twyford.org.uk/news/2024-11-28-ignite-28-november-2024) [The Good Schools Guide ](https://www.twyford.org.uk/news/2024-12-16-the-good-schools-guide) ### News & Events - [News](https://www.twyford.org.uk/news) - [Events](https://www.twyford.org.uk/events) - [![Logo of William Perkin CofE High School](https://www.twyford.org.uk/images/academies/william-perkin.png)](https://williamperkin.org.uk/) - [![Logo of Ealing Fields CofE High School](https://www.twyford.org.uk/images/academies/ealing-fields-high-school.png)](https://ealingfields.org.uk/) - [![Logo of Ada Lovelace CofE High School](https://www.twyford.org.uk/images/academies/Ada_Lovelace.jpeg)](https://adalovelace.org.uk/) - [![Logo of Twyford Academies Trust](https://www.twyford.org.uk/images/academies/twyford_MAT.png)](https://twyfordacademies.org.uk/) - [![Logo of Teach West London](https://www.twyford.org.uk/images/academies/Teach_West_Resize.png)](https://www.teachwestlondon.org.uk/) #### Twyford CofE High School Twyford Crescent Acton, London W3 9PP #### Our Schools - [William Perkin CofE High School](https://williamperkin.org.uk/) - [Ealing Fields CofE High School](https://ealingfields.org.uk/) - [Ada Lovelace CofE High School](https://adalovelace.org.uk/) - [Twyford Academies Trust](https://twyfordacademies.org.uk/) - [Teach West London](https://www.teachwestlondon.org.uk/) © Copyright 2021–2026 Twyford CofE High School– [View Privacy Notice](https://www.twyford.org.uk/about-us/policies) School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://www.twyford.org.uk/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)