Fair Trade Workshops for Schools

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Fortnight 2011

28th Feb to

13th March

FAIR TRADE WORKSHOPS FOR SCHOOLS

Our fair trade workshops are to celebrate African culture through music, arts, story-telling and education and to promote and teach the value and benefits of fair trade. Fairtrade is about better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world. Buy Fairtrade products and make a difference to the lives of the farmers who grow the products.

School fair trade resources:

Useful Websites

Interesting Books

Click here to see Helen Chebe's interview by pupils at George Heriot's School on fair trade sheanut butter and the benefits to women in northern Ghana

Fair Trade Day for Primary Schools

Two facilitators come to your school for the full day. We decorate your school hall or classroom with Fair Trade bunting and posters and set-up an African village display with numerous fair trade products. This display emphasises the link between buying fair trade products and the benefits to local people in the developing countries.

We can kick-start the day with a short assembly for the whole school:

Introduction
Daily life in Ghana for the cocoa farmers and their families highlighting the problems they face
Show how Fair Trade can work as an alternative
Demonstrate the power of consumers and the difference we can make

The rest of the day is timetabled for both facilitators, the number of activities per class depends on the size of your school. The maximum number of sessions for the day is 14. The activities are selected from the following list (for further details on the activities click here):

Djembe Drumming workshops
African art & craft workshops (make African masks, drums, clay pots, Ashanti gold weights, kente weaving, batik pictures, African jewellery and Adinkra printing)
Learn to play Oware (African board game)
Make a fair trade banner (learn fair trade products, producers and countries of origin)
Daily Life in Ghana
Fair trade Chocolate Bean to Bar
Trading Game
African story-telling

The Fair Trade day costs £650 plus travel expenses. If you are interested in booking please email info@teachingdrums.com or phone 01236 823869

Cocoa farmers in Ghana, West Africa

Cocoa pods which contain the beans used to make chocolate

Buy Fairtrade chocolate and support farmers in Ghana

Useful Websites	Main Content	Comment
www.fairtrade.org.uk	Fairtrade Foundation	Become a fair trade school, lots resources
www.papapaa.org	Chocolate	Download lesson plans and activities DVD pack
www.dubble.co.uk	Chocolate	Bean2Bar story Fun games especially Beanland game
www.risc.org.uk	Global issues and action for sustainable development, human rights and social justice	Downloadable resources
www.traidcraft.co.uk	Fighting poverty through trade	School resources
www.sciafyouth.org.uk	Fairtrade, global citizenship and trade justice issues	Speakers and advice for schools in Scotland
www.dea.org.uk	Education charity that promotes global learning	Independent resource libraries and information centres

Further details about Fair Trade activities:

AFRICAN DRUMMING

Curriculum: Music

Activity: each pupil will have their own djembe drum and will learn African beats, rhythms and chants. They will also get to play the xylophone and a range of African shakers.

Objective: to explore African music and the different styles and traditions.

AFRICAN ART & CRAFT WORKSHOPS

Curriculum: Art & Design, Geography, Citizenship

Activities: African masks, drums, clay pots, Ashanti gold weights, kente weaving, batik pictures, African jewellery and Adinkra printing

Aim: To respect the cultural heritage and traditions of others and to learn the role and purpose of craftspeople from a different culture.

Objective: To promote creativity, explore art and design, to investigate textiles, printing, sculpture and to apply a variety of techniques and materials. We provide all the artistic materials required and each pupil will have a finished art work.

OWARE

Curriculum: Numeracy

Activity: pupils will learn how to play the game Oware which involves moving seeds around a board. It requires concentration and counting skills.

Objective: to learn about the culture of fair-trade producers and the importance of recycling for the environment.

DAILY LIFE IN AFRICA

Curriculum: Citizenship, literacy

Activity: pupils will have the opportunity to touch and feel different everyday objects used by families in Africa including grinding tomatoes, ginger and garlic and sweeping with a traditional grass broom.

Objective: to explore the environment of fair-trade producers and to learn the importance of receiving a fair price for their produce.

FAIRTRADE BANNER

Curriculum: Art & Design, Geography

Activity: to make a large fair-trade banner for your school using collage, printing, painting and colouring.

Objective: to learn fair-trade products, producers and the countries of origin.

All materials are provided and each pupil will contribute to the banner.

Interesting Books:

Nii Kwei's Day: From Dawn to Dusk in a Ghanaian City by Francis Provencal & Catherine McNamara

Ghana (Countries of the World) by Lucile Davis

World Issues Fair Trade? by Adrian Cooper

African Arts for Scotland, 80 Stirling Road, Kilsyth, Glasgow, G65 0PT

For further information or to book a workshop please phone or email:

Tel: 01236 823869

Email: info@teachingdrums.com