Fair Trade Cotton

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Hello everyone,  my class are talking about Fair Trade and we have decided to make a blog about it.

  •  300 million people work to make cotton.
  • The leading producers are India, China and the US .
  • people employ children under the age of 12 in some counties.
  • cotton is the world’s oldest crop .
  • In some  counties cotton can be used as payment.
  •  Fair Trade cotton is made by farmers who get a decent and fair price.

Thank You for reading my blog. If there is anything we left out please write it in a comment.

Stephen and Cameron 🙂

Maths – Shapes

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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

 

 

Fair Trade

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For the next few weeks in our school it is Fair Trade week. We have been starting to learn about cotton. A lot of years ago all over the world children were forced to work in factories for hours. That is one of the reasons why Fair Trade started. Fair Trade means to pay the farmers a fair price for the product they have made. Lots of companies buy cotton from the farmers but don’t pay a fair price. The farmers spent hours making cotton and they only get paid about £1 or 50p. I really want to make a difference to the poor farmers not getting paid enough money and try and get companies to be a part of Fair Trade.

Thanks for Reading !

By Katie Morrell

Fair Trade

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Hello everyone, we have been learning about Fair Trade and how it affects the world around us.  This blog post is all about cotton.  Cotton is one of the most important crops in the global textile industry, basically that means that it is one of the most used fabrics/materials around the world. The working conditions for Africa and Eastern Asia are despicable i.e. child labour, governments forcing people in a terrible state to work and most of all, illegally employing children. We are all trying our hardest to support Fair Trade and by doing Fair Trade Fortnight we are all supporting Fair Trade.

By Rachel Gibb and Liam McAlinden

Goodbye and Thank You

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Hello,

I would just like to say a massive Thank You to our wonderful teacher Mr Kettlewell. At the start of the year a musical person came into our school to teach, and Room 12 were lucky enough to get him. Mr Kettlewell taught our class for around about 3 and a half months. Room 12 and Mrs Lobodowska really miss him because he would always bring colour into everything and  had a very unusual ( in the good way ) sense of humor. If you are reading this now Mr Kettlewell, I would really like to say a humongous Thank You and Good Luck in your future of teaching.

By Rachel Gibb 🙂

 

Our Topic!

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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

Fairtrade Fortnight – Cotton

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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

Fair Trade

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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.

Chess Tournament

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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  🙂

 

 

Uddingston Library Trip

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On Monday the 23 of February 2015 room 12 went to Uddingston Library. Linda the librarian split us in to 3 groups. The first group went to the computers and looked at books. One of the books were The Twits. The second group was with Mr Kettlewell and he gave us a booklet, pencil and a search book. We had to look up the word to find the library numbers. My friend Chloe said she loved doing it. The third and last group was to use the reference books with Mrs Lobodowska. She would give us a card and we would have to find the book and answer the question and tell Miss Lobodowska the answer.  I thought it was great fun and I would like to go back again.

By Morgan and Chloe