Monthly Archives: March 2015

Fair Trade Fortnight

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Hello everyone,

This week our class have been focusing on cotton for Fair Trade Fortnight.

Cotton is one of the world’s largest and oldest commercialised crops. Cotton is also one of the most important fibre crops globally. If you buy clothes made with Fair Trade cotton you are helping farmers all around the world, especially in Central and West Asia and Africa. I have researched and found out some shops such as Marks and Spencer’s, Sainsbury’s and People Tree sell Fair Trade clothing items.

Our class also split into groups. One group was to design a poster for Fair Trade. Another one was to create a song and make a product and advertise it. There was a drama group and the last group was to make a rap about Fair Trade. I was in the drama group. We had to create a scene which shows what Fair Trade is.

Please help farmers  by buying Fair Trade. Thank you.

By Chase Reeves

Chocolate Banana-Fair Trade

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Hello,

In school we had a fun task to do. We were working in a group to do activities. The group we were working in had to create a product and music to go with it. The product our group came up was a chocolate banana. We had instruments to create a beat along with lyrics. We made a poster it was a banana skin with chocolate in the middle. We really enjoyed our task and we performed it in front of the class. It was funny!.

Thanks for reading !!

By Katie Morrell and Ellie McCondichie

Goodbye Mr Kettlewell :)

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Hello,

Sadly, last Friday one of our teachers called  Mr Kettlewell left our school. We  enjoyed him being in our class because he made our lessons very fun and interesting. Last Thursday before he went away we had a little party in class. We had lots of food  and decorated little cupcakes and sang the  song that we liked to  sing  in  class called Run. It made us sad thinking about all the fun memories that we had with him . We also played the number game and completed it which made us all proud including Mr Kettlewell and Mrs Lobodowska. We made and painted volcanoes with them and then we got to splat paint on the volcanoes to make it look as if it had erupted. It has been absolutely excellent and an honour to have Mr Kettlewell teaching us. We certainly won’t forget him and hopefully he won’t forget us either. We would just also like to say thank you for all your hard work and our lovely gifts you gave us on Friday!

We miss you so much already Mr Kettlewell,

Thank you for reading.

By Katie Morrell and Ellie McCondichie !!

 

Fair trade

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Cotton

For the next  two weeks primary 6 are going to be looking at Fair trade. So far this week we have been looking at cotton. Cotton is the oldest and the biggest commercial crop. The reason cotton farmers are so poor is because of the high levels of illiteracy and the limited land holding. Some of the shops which sell fair trade clothes are M&S, People Tree and Sainsbury’s. We have also been doing raps, posters, making a product and doing drama acts.  I did a rap. Here is my rap.

Helping Fair trade

Before fair trade the farmers were so unhappy

so we came to help which made them happy.

They thought it was so funny to see all the workers lose that money.

The bosses were so lucky, but what they didn’t know was workers were losing.

cotton cotton its so cosy. Its really soft for your nosy.

But there is one thing that disappoints me is that children need to work for forty.

Help us save the children in needy. By getting all the big people un greedy.

Sour as a lemon like bosses are.

But if you buy fair trade they’ll all go very far. So help the farmers for their work.

And make sure everybody’s getting a fair trade.

Thanks for listening to our rap. Remember buy fair trade and make the farmers glow.

by Amy lee Deakin and Rachel Craig

 

Mr Kettlewells leaving party :(

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On the 12th of March 2015 our class ( room 12 ) had a leaving party for Mr Kettlewell.

It was a great party, however Mr Kettlewell ate all of the crisps. We had biscuits , cakes and sweets. All of us ate loads of food. Then Mr Kettlewell put on his music and we had to guess what language it was in!

At the end Mr Kettlewell put on Run on and every one started singing.

Thanks for reading our blog.

We will miss you Mr Kettlewell!

By Daniel McMahon and Declan Bell

 

 

 

Goodbye Mr Kettlewell :(

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Goodbye Mr Kettlewell,

Unfortunately last Friday Mr Kettlewell, our temporary class teacher left so he could teach his own class. He was a great teacher as he introduced a lot of things we had never done before. He taught us about 2D and 3D shape, which was very interesting. He taught us about Natural Disasters and introduced us to philosophy and drama. We have done drama in the school before, but it was great doing drama with Mr Kettlewell. We had never done philosophy before and it turns out most of the class really liked it. We even have a nickname for him which is Oreo. Last Thursday was the last whole day we had with with Mr Kettlewell( as Friday was book day) so we had a little party to celebrate him leaving our class and becoming a teacher of his very own class. We were all so happy for him but were also very sad to see him go.

We are so happy for Mr Kettlewell and even though it’s only been a week, we miss him very much.

By Chase Reeves

Fairtrade Cotton

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Over 60 per cent of the world depends on cotton farmers to bring them cotton. Cotton is a plant and it comes from Asia, Africa and India but is dominated by the U.S.A and China. Cotton is a plant that everyone uses and is one of the most vital plants there is. It is a soft material that is farmed on fields.  

by Ben & William

Fairtrade

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Cotton is the worlds oldest crop. Cotton is produced mostly by China, India and the USA. Cotton is vital for survival of many low countries such as: Central and West Asia and Africa.

Cotton farmers work in developing countries such as India and China. There are 100 million households engaged with cotton and there are an estimated 300 million people who work in the cotton industry. For farmers, the challenges range from climate change to getting a fair amount of money for their cotton.  Fairtrade cotton was launched to put the attention on cotton farmers who were often left unknown.  60% of cotton around the world is produced by people who are small farmers and often the worlds poorest people. Fair trade works with more than 66,000 farmers in some of the worlds poorest countries.

I hope this has encouraged you to start buying fair trade.

By Declan and Lewis

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PHILOSOPHY!!

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PHILOSOPHY IS AMAZING !

Philosophy is amazing  because it is really fun when we have to agree and disagree with other people. Sometimes we will get a text to read and we will ask questions and our Philosophy teacher Mr Kettlewell, will write them down on his note pad. There would usually be about 13-15 questions being asked, and then he would pick one and then we start to do the agreeing and the disagreeing.

TRY IT YOURSELF!!

By Cameron Lochran