Our topic for this term is….. FAIRTRADE!

The class were given a piece of Fairtrade banana and a piece of Fairtrade chocolate to eat as a clue to our new topic.

They were then given a piece of puzzle each and the class had to create 5 puzzles showing pictures that gave further clues to what our new topic might be.

Next the children took part in a group task. Each group was given job specifications of the people involved in growing and exporting bananas. They had to give each person in their group a job specification to read to the group. They then had to split up 30p that would be charged for a banana and decide how the 30p should be fairly split between the jobs. The class were very shocked at how little money the banana workers received even though they worked 14hour days of very physical work. You can see some of their reactions in the pictures below…

We have also been working together as a class to create a new topic wall display.