Fair Trade Workshops for Schools

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World Fair

Trade Day 2012

12th May

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. Fair trade is about better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world.

School resources:

New Fair Trade Pack

Useful Websites

Free downloads

Click here to see Helen Chebe's interview by pupils at George Heriot's School on fair trade shea butter

Fair Trade Day for Primary Schools

Two facilitators come to your school for the full day. We decorate your school hall or classroom with Fairtrade 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 12. The activities are selected from the following list (for further details on the activities click here):

Djembe Drumming workshops
Fair trade art & craft workshops (make fair trade necklaces, African drums, clay pots, fair trade posters, fridge magnet, key rings and much more.)
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
Fair trade Quiz

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

Making fair trade wall hanging at Mid Calder Primary

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	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

Cocoa farmers in Ghana, West Africa

Cocoa pods which contain the beans used to make chocolate

Buy Fairtrade chocolate and support farmers in Ghana

FREE DOWNLOADS (pdf)

Fair Trade Shopping Task - Colour and cut out 6 fair trade products and stick them to the shopping basket (Key Stage 1)

Fair Trade Wordsearch - Find and circle the fair trade products (Key Stage 2)

Fairtrade Fortnight worksheet - Colour and design your own picture for Fairtrade Fortnight 2012 - Take a Step for Fairtrade

Fun African drumming workshops for all ages

Further details about Fair Trade activities:

AFRICAN DRUMMING WORKSHOPS

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.

FAIR TRADE ART & CRAFT WORKSHOPS

Curriculum: Art & Design, Geography, Citizenship

Activities: African fair trade drums, clay pots, fair trade jewellery, posters, fridge magnets, key rings etc.

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.

LEARN TO PLAY 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.

MAKE A FAIR TRADE 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.

DAILY LIFE IN GHANA

Curriculum: Citizenship, Literacy

Activity: pupils will have the opportunity to touch and feel different everyday objects used by families in Ghana 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.

FAIR TRADE CHOCOLATE BEAN TO BAR

Curriculum: Citizenship, Geography, Literacy

Activity: PowerPoint presentation of the journey from cocoa bean to chocolate bar.

Objective: to learn the impact of international trade rules on poor farmers in developing countries and how we can help by buying Fairtrade products such as chocolate.

TRADING GAME

Curriculum: Citizenship, Numeracy, Literacy

Activity: a fun market trading game with role playing cards, currency and real African foods such as black-eyed beans, gari and chilli peppers. The pupils become African farmers and traders and buy and sell their goods at market. This activity is very popular with pupils.

Objective: to learn about the pressures of life for local people in developing countries and the importance of farming and trade.

FAIR TRADE QUIZ

Curriculum: Citizenship, Geography, Numeracy and Literacy

Activity: pupils work in groups and rotate around the classroom answering questions on different Fairtrade products such as sugar, coffee, tea, chocolate, bananas and cotton.

Objective: to learn Fairtrade products and packaging and to extract information from various materials.

Primary 1 (Reception) class making Fairtrade mark