Gallery - Fair Trade, March 2008
Fair Trade in Reception Class.
Reception Class were invited to bring in any fair trade products they had at home. We discussed the packaging and all found the symbol that informed us it was fair trade. Many recognised it, either from food they had seen at home, or whilst out shopping.
Story time
We read a story titled 'It's not fair!' and then we talked a lot about the word 'fair' and what it meant to be fair and unfair. The class spoke about their own experiences:
"It's not fair when I'm not allowed to play a game outside".
"It's fair when we take turns with the toys".
"It's fair when we get a turn at the front of the line".
"It's not fair when the same person is always on the tractor".Role play
Fortunately, our role play was set up as a shop. So we acted out the unfairness of some trade. We all agreed that it was fairer if the people who grew the products got paid enough to look after their families.
Fair Trade Day March 2008 - Year One
The class discussed the meaning of being fair. We talked about how bananas grow and their journey to the United Kingdom from the Caribbean.
The children tasted fair trade food - raisins, cookies, chocolate, geo-bars, bananas and banana cake. Each child made a chart showing their likes and dislikes.
They did some observational drawings of the fair trade collection of goods. All the work was put into folders which the children took home to read with their parents.
Class 2 go Bananas in
Fair Trade week!!
Year 2 spent the day looking at the story of Bananas, from when and where they are planted and grown, to when they are harvested and shipped to our country. We talked about what would be unfair and fair trade for the farmers.
We did lots of activities linked to bananas such as drawing and tasting fair trade bananas, a banana word search, an ICT program all about the story of bananas, how to fit banana crates into a ship and drawing a large fair trade badge..
Year 3 Fairtrade Day
Year 3 looked at the history of banana growing, tracing the spread from South East Asia using a world map. Then we looked at the journey a banana makes from the tree to the consumer, using a series of photographs. We managed to get the photos in the right order.
We all pretended to be different people involved in the production and retailing of bananas. One group represented the farmers, one group were the growers association, another were the ripeners/distributers and the last group were the retailers. We all decided how much of the 20p charged for each banana for should go to each group. After our dicussions we compared how the money was divided between the groups for a fair-trade banana and a normally traded banana. The children decided that the farmers should receive more of the money.
FAIR TRADE
On Thursday 6th March the school learned about fair trade, as part of fair trade fortnight. Here are some of the things that we learned in Y5:
- Cocoa beans grow on trees in pods and people have a sharp knife to cut the pods in half to scrap the beans out of the pods.
- The people who grow the cocoa beans get paid a fair price if they sell to fair trade shops.
- After break we looked at atlases to find Ghana.
- After lunch we cut out as many paper beans as we could for a competition.
- We learned how the fair trade chocolate gets shipped from Ghana to the U.K.
- We wrote down our ideas about the possible routes for shipping from Ghana to the U.K.
- We learned that metal comes from stone. Stone with metal in it is sent to a factory and is melted in a hot oven. The metal would melt and the stone would stay the same. The stone would be thrown away and the metal would be used to make tools, utensils, objects.
- Any clothes that you have worn are made by humans.
- We found out about the chocolate making process and followed all the steps from bean to bar.
BY LEE AND ALICE M
Children in Year Four talked about how important it is that farmers are given a fair price for their cocoa beans. All of the children tasted fair-trade chocolate from the local Coop and read the information about the farmers who grow the cocoa beans. The children gave the chocolate a mark out of five for the wrapper, taste and texture and chose which their favourite was.
These children chose orange chocolate.
