60% of people in poor countries are working in small farms. Over 40 million small farmers are forced to work for bigger companies for unfair prices. I hope I have encouraged you to buy fair trade to help small farmers.
Cotton
Primary 6 are looking at Fair trade, especially cotton. This week we are going to look at cotton and how children need to work. Sometimes children are only 6 or 7 years old when they have to go out and work. India and China are leading producers when it comes to cotton. Farmers who produce cotton are sometimes very poor because they have to send lots of cotton over to different shops all around the world and they don’t get paid much.
Thank you for reading
by Amy McAdams
Hello,
Our school is involved in fair-trade, our class have been focussing on cotton. These are some of the things that we know : cotton is the world’s oldest and well known material in the world; there are cotton farmers in several countries like India and China, fair trade cotton is made by the farmers that are often left invisible and not in the spotlight.
Thanks for reading!
By Ellie McCondichie
Hello everyone this is a blog post about tsunamis and volcanoes and how they are made.
Tsunamis are formed by underwater earthquakes. The earthquake causes water to rise on the surface.
A volcano is a mountain that has a pool of molten rock. This rock comes from the mantel, a layer in our earth. The molten rock pushes up into a mountain creating something called a magma chamber. It builds up pressure and then explodes. We have been working very hard to make this blog. Please comment. We would love to hear what you think and about any things we have missed out. A big thank you to Mrs Lobodowska and Mr Kettlewell (the best teachers ever) 🙂
by Stephen Mooney and Daniel Kennedy
Hello everyone, my class are talking about Fair Trade and we have decided to make a blog about it.
Thank You for reading my blog. If there is anything we left out please write it in a comment.
Stephen and Cameron 🙂
For two months primary 6 have been working on shapes in maths with Mr Kettlewell.
We have been working on triangles, polygons, circles, properties of shapes, corners, curved edges, lines of symmetry, diagonal lines, mathematical terms, irregular shapes and regular shape, 2D and 3D shapes and also parallel lines.
By Lewis Gallagher
In school we have been doing natural disasters as a topic. We have been learning about volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis and hurricanes. Mrs Lobodowska and Mr Kettlewell have made it a really fun topic, they took us to Dynamic Earth. It was amazing! We went back in time and we made tornadoes and earthquakes. We also did some drama on it. We made a volcano coming out of the wall and the full class helped.
I really enjoyed doing this topic!
By Ava Curran
For the next two weeks it is Fairtrade Fortnight and I am going to write about cotton.
26.4% of Benin’s exports is cotton and 58.7% of Burkina Faso’s is cotton as well. 100 Million households are engaged in cotton growing. Estimated about 300 million people work for cotton households. Cotton is the oldest commercial crop. Cotton is vital for the survival of many people in Africa and the Central and Western Asia. The farmers are nervous about the climate change affecting the crops and poor prices for seed cotton.
Thank you for reading my blog and please leave a reply.
Written by Matthew McGrath
In class we are learning about Fair-trade cotton
In my school it is Fair Trade Fortnight and our class is learning about Fair Trade cotton. So far we have read a little bit about cotton and we know that cotton is one of the oldest and well known crops. Farmers usually get paid round about 50p for doing this work and then the company that gets the product keeps the rest. We really want to help these people and give them a fair life.
Thanks for reading!
By Ava Curran and Elisha Morrow.
On the 26 of February 2015 I am going to Hamilton college to play in a chess tournament. I am very excited and I hope we win most of our games.
Recently we have been doing very well at the chess tournaments but some of us are going to a football tournament sadly but I think we will do fine.
By William Walker 🙂
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