Fairtrade Task – Bring in any Fairtrade packaging/labels you have at home by THIS Friday, 8th of March. We will be counting our packaging, and creating a display on Friday.

Fairtrade Fortnight – Monday 25th February to Sunday 10th March – are two weeks in which we can put an emphasis on Fairtrade within the classroom and the school, with a hope to it being part of our daily routine.

Click the image to the left to go to the Fairtrade Foundation website!

Today we learnt about Fairtrade Fortnight through three different ways.

1. Watching the French video: Mange te banane – this told us about the story of Javier

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Mange te Banane – CLICK HERE!

2. Learning about Martin – a farmer’s son from Martinique. The PowerPoint below tells you all about Martin’s life.

Fairtrade – MARTINIQUE – PowerPoint

3. Fact finding activity – using 3 websites, we worked as a group to find out information about bananas, cocoa and mangoes. The websites links are below:

Bananas
Cocoa
Mangoes

Think Fairtrade this fortnight!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice