Well done to all 12 teams who successfully completed an orienteering challenge around the school grounds today! Thanks to Stephen Hughes, our Active Schools Coordinator, for lending us the equipment. The results will be announced tomorrow at our end of week review and fashion show. It was very close!

This morning we enjoyed a walk round our local countryside with Jackie and Jamie, the Countryside Rangers. We walked along the side of the North Calder River and also saw the Monkland Canal. We saw the tracks of a few animals such as badgers but we were a bit too noisy to see them in the flesh!

As Fairtrade Fortnight comes to an end we want to share with you everything we have been doing to promote Fairtrade within Calderbank!

Primary 1/2/3/4 began by learning about what Fairtrade is and then created posters to promote and encourage others to buy Fairtrade products. They then gave out Fairtrade information leaflets to people who passed by as they walked around the village and distributed Fairtrade stock it information leaflets and window stickers to two shops in the local community. Here, Primary 1/2/3/4 asked store managers whether or not they stocked Fairtrade products and spoke to them about the importance of buying these. After giving us a few free samples of Fairtrade chocolate, the store managers received ‘Fairtrade Stock It’ leaflets from the children, encouraging them to stock additional Fairtrade items such as sugar, tea and coffee. After their visit, the class watched ‘My Fairtrade Adventure’ and learned where cocoa comes from. They then used their free Fairtrade chocolate to make brownies. Primary 3 / 4 then wrote a persuasive letter to the store managers to encourage them to follow through with their promises of stocking Fairtrade products.

Our school Fairtrade committee then helped to organise and host ‘Fairtrade Fruity Thursday’ where the children paid £1 and in return received Fairtrade fruit skewers dipped in Fairtrade chocolate. This was a great success and helped to raise awareness of the varied Fairtrade fruits, chocolate and products available to buy in their local supermarkets.