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Primary 5 have Fun with Fairtrade Ingredients

We know that Fairtrade foods can be more expensive but we have learned that farmers get a better price for their products and communities can use their Fairtrade Premium to make life better for everyone.

Today pupils in Primary 5 made Chocolate Banana Flower Muffins using Fairtrade cocoa, sugar, bananas and chocolate buttons!  It was hard work but the results were worth it!

 

Primary 5 Play the Trading Game

Primary 5 pupils learned about Fairtrade across the world when they played the Trading Game this week.  Each team was allocated a country, different resources and different amounts of money – and were tasked with producing shapes which earned them money!

 Pupils developed skills in using different equipment to create shapes, accounting, cooperation and communication!  Teams used their money to buy additional resources or traded resources with other countries,  India was the winning country with over £4000 earned!

Handling Information

Primary 2 were learning about how to organise and display information.

First of all we had a bundle of bricks which we arranged to find out which colour we had most of.  We realised that it was much easier to stack them up…it looked a bit like a graph!

After the bricks we looked at how to sort our shoes!

We sorted them into a graph too…

There are not-shiny velcro shoes, boots, slip ons and shiny velcro shoes.

We talked about why there were no lace up shoes and most people said that they had velcro shoes because they felt safer and were easy to fasten.