Fair Trade Cotton!

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Buy Fair Trade!

In my blog I am going to tell you a bit about fair trade and I am also going to tell you where you can buy fair trade products.

Where you can buy fair trade products.

  • M&S
  •  Tesco
  • Morrison’s
  • Sainsbury’s

A bit about fair trade cotton.

Cotton is one of the world most oldest commercial crop.  300 million people  are much happier now because of fair trade. Fair trade people have bought their product and these farmers got a fair price. The price of cotton has gone down in the last 30 years so farmers are struggling to survive in these countries- India, Kyrgyzstan and West Africa.

By Amy-Lee

 

 

Dynamic Earth

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A week ago we went to Dynamic Earth.

Dynamic Earth is so awesome because it has interesting facts, fun activities, an iceberg, a video and foam coming down from the ceiling. There are so many rooms and for the first time I enjoyed going on a school trip with a long ride on the bus. The best part was the iceberg. People were touching it, people were licking it. I bought top trumps to play on the bus and a soft toy for bed.

Thanks for reading my blog.

Written by Matthew McGrath.

Fair Trade Cotton

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Fair trade is an organisation designed to help farmers get a fair price for their products. Our blog today is about cotton farmers. and how they make their products.

Many cotton farmers are living a life in poverty. The rising cost of production, higher market price and decreasing yields are the challenges faced daily by the farmers. A fall in cotton prices has serious implications for the farmers ability to meet their needs. In India lots of farmers are seriously in debt. This is caused by the high interest loans. Fair Trade help and rebuild small scale farmers industries, finances, and life. In 2012 there were 33 farmer’s organisations in 8 countries. Thanks to Fair Trade thousands of cotton farmers have improved their lives. Fair Trade works with more than 6600 cotton farmers in the poorest parts of the world. Very few people make much profit from it. Fair Trade aim to help millions of farmers worldwide. 6600 isn’t good enough. Buy Fair Trade to help millions and millions of farmers make enough profit to live. You might not think that you will make a difference, but you will. If all of the people who think that they won’t make a difference all bought Fair Trade then it would add up and make a humongous difference.

Thank you for reading our blog!

By Euan Breen and Daniel Kennedy

Fair Trade Cotton

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By Fair Trade and save some ones life    

Today I have decided to write about something that matters to the world. Fair Trade cotton is very important to the world because farmers work very hard and deserve a fair amount of money. Here are some places you can by Fair Trade cotton.

  • M & S
  • People tree
  • Pants to poverty
  • Sainsbury’s

Cotton is made from all over the world  but it is better to buy Fair Trade  cotton. There is a man called Massatoma  Mounkoro and he owns his own farm in Mobiom ,Mali. He signed up with Fair Trade to get a Fair amount of money. Some of the places farms work in are.

  • Agrocel pure and fair cotton growers association in India
  • Chentna  organic agriculture  producer company ltd in India
  • Krishan Sianathan  Agrocel in India

 

BY MORGAN LECKIE

 

 

Dynamic Earth Visit

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On Friday the 6th of March we went to Dynamic Earth for our school trip.

Our favourite part was when we had to put on special glasses and watch a video and at one point foam came down from the ceiling down on to us.

We enjoyed touching the iceberg and seeing who could keep their hands on it for the longest.

 

by Connor and Christopher

 

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