Celebrating Fairtrade Fortnight 2015
at St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Poole, Dorset
This year Fairtrade are supporting and raising awareness for our Cocoa farmers and workers in the developing world to transform their lives. St. Mary’s supported this by organising the following activities and learning around Fairtrade this Fairtrade Fortnight.
Firstly, on Wednesday 25 February children from 4H delivered a fun assembly to our Key Stage 2 pupils, through role playing a news bulletin. This included a reflection for the millions of farmers who work hard to grow the food we love to eat as well as a film clip about Fairtrade. We used plenty of props and Fairtrade items to engage with the audience.
Objectives
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Learners find out about how supply chains work and their role in producing our food
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Learners gain an understanding of what Fairtrade is and how it aims to work.
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Leaners can reflect on their role as consumers and the impact they can have through their interconnectivity with producers.
The following week, Thursday 5 March, children from 4H delivered a similar assembly on the same theme to our pupils in Key Stage 1.
In class, pupils focused their learning on cocoa and were able to reflect on where our food comes from and the connections we have with the farmers in poorer countries.
Posters produced by pupils in Year 5
Pupils from Key Stage 2 were invited to attend our very popular event at the Fairtrade Pupil Café. Our pupils in Year 6 enjoyed their roles as waiters/waitresses as they served our popular Fairtrade hot chocolate, topped with cream and marshmallows. All pupils also had the opportunity to purchase some Fairtrade snacks such as chunky Chocolate Cookies, Geobars and Fairtrade wafer bars at the café to complement their drinks.
We had so much fun waiting on our friends at the Café.
Fairtrade snacks are the best!!
Using our ‘French’ skills at the Cafe went down a treat.
Tries bien everyone!
Shortly after attending the assembly on Fairtrade, the pupils in Key Stage 1 were invited to purchase some Fairtrade Chocolate Cookies during their break time which they thoroughly enjoyed.
Finally, using only Fairtrade ingredients, homemade Fairtrade Chocolate Chunk Muffins and Chocolate Florentines were shared with staff during their break-time, where Fairtrade Tea and Coffee is a definite must in the staff room.
Fairtrade is taken very seriously at St. Mary’s and we try to include this in our curriculum where ever possible. We look forward to continuing to learn and support Fairtrade in 2015.
Thank you to all our supporters who helped make this Fairtrade Fortnight a success!