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The Snowdrops listened to a story about Freddie and Flora and their quest for fairness. We all explored baskets of shopping and had to find the Fairtrade mark. The Snowdrops worked together sorting out the different foods. We had lots of Fairtrade bananas and enjoyed tasting them!
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The Bluebells class have enjoyed celebrating Fairtrade Fortnight. We have looked closely at the fairtrade logo and enjoyed drawing and colouring our own on the SMARTboard. We also used fairtrade chocolate to make chocolate crispy cakes. We shared them with all of our friends in the Infant Corridor. They were yummy!
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The Snowdrops have been finding out about Fairtrade – looking at pictures of different foods and watching a video about Pablo the super banana. We have been matching fruit pictures and creating some Fairtrade art work.
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The Bluebells class went on a walk to our local Scotmid shop. We had a challenge to find items that had the fairtrade logo on their packaging.
Next week, we are leading a Fairtrade Fortnight assembly so we have been looking closely at the logo.
We managed to find fairtrade chocolate bars, tea bags and sugar in Scotmid.
Fairtrade fun last Friday, we all enjoyed a Cheeky monkey hunt around the school and then lots of Fairtrade fun games in the afternoon, it all got very competitive!
All the boys were successful learners finding all the Fairtrade photos around the school.
This week the Stars class have learnt about Fairtrade and made tasty mars bar cake for the Willowbank Bake Off. We heard about Pablo the Banana and his banana journey. On Friday we played Fairtrade games in the hall with the Sungazers and Moonbeams and enjoyed a Monkey Hunt. On outings we sourced produce with the Fairtrade logo on.
…make Fairtrade lemonade!
The Beech class enjoyed another fab day of Fairtrade fun. We went on a monkey hunt, make our own Fairtrade lemonade and played Fairtrade games with our secondary friends.
Here are our favourite photos from today. We were effective contributors as we all took part!
We’re going on a monkey hunt…
We love our Willowbank monkey 
We shared our lovely home made lemonade with the Transition boys – it was a hit! 
We have been learning about Fairtrade this week. We had a Fairtrade assembly by the Snowdrops. We were confident individuals in making our own special Fairtrade delight for the Fairtrade Bake Off yesterday. We made cake pops with ‘rice krispies’ and made them look like sunflowers. The boys were fabulous at this. They waited their turn and listened to instructions. We even made extra so the we all could take one home. 
AND WE WON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today was our whole school Fairtrade day. We went to the hall and played fairtrade corners and pass the banana. We were also very lucky and had a fairtrade hunt. We had a huge surprise at the end when we met a monkey in our school sensory room. He danced with us. We had great fun.
This week amongst all our other activities we have been learning about Fair Trade. We made the symbol our of paper cuttings, made delicious Banana Crumb Muffins for the Bake Off, played some games and went on a Monkey Hunt…and found the Monkey!!!
The Beech class have had a fun ‘Fairtrade’ themed week learning all about what it means to be fair. We were very successful learners as we shown a great understanding of fairness in the working world.
Fairtrade food bingo
The finished ‘bake-off’ product! All our items were Fairtrade.
We looked into where different foods are grown and mapped it out.
Fairtrade numeracy games!
Cooking our truffles.
Fairtrade literacy! We used the letters that make up the word ‘fairtrade’ and went on aphonics hunt to match the letter to pictures of objects that start with that letter sound.
