Here at Miriam Lord we are hoping to achieve Fair Trade School Status. This means that the school fully supports Fair Trade, uses Fair Trade products where possible and promotes the Fair Trade label. Today we held our first Fair Trade steering group meeting with representatives from Year 5 and 6. Fair Trade means that millions of farmers across the world get a fair price for what they sell and a little extra – a Fair Trade premium. The farmers can use this extra money to help improve their communities by building access to fresh water, or sending their children to school.
Our group came up with lots of fantastic ideas on how our school can promote the use of Fair Trade such as making posters, selling Fair Trade products in school, using our school blog and writing letters to shops, persuading them to sell more Fair Trade products. We will be regularly updating this page with progress on our Fair Trade journey
Are there any other schools who either have or are working towards the Fair Trade Status?
Can anyone think of any Fair Trade products they have seen in the shops?
What suggestions could you make for our steering group?
The fairtrade products i’ve seen in shops are chocolate, hot chocolate, coffee, juice, cereal and fruit.
I have seen chocolate,fruit,biscutes,tea and juice all these have fairtrade sighs on.I see them when iam going shopping with my family.
I think we should let other schools know that they can help with fairtrade. I also have seen a chocolate bar with a fair trade sign on it.
I think fair traid is great to have on ower blog.
I agree
Im in the Fair trade group and i’ve heard some fab ideas here are some of them.
We should make a little sentence underneeth the logo like for e.g Giving others what we don’t need or Making life better . Somthing like that.
We could make some posters to promote Fair Trade or a website , blog in them we will say what is Fair Trade and why we want people to buy it.
We could do somthing spectaculair for the 2 weeks of Fair Trade like some games that the payed money by people will go to these countrys in Africa that Fair Trade is in contact. The money goes to hospitals , schools and houses.
Last year there was an essemby about Fair Trade it said that if you buy products from Fai Trade the a 1/4 of it will go to the countrys .
If both bars of chocolate cost 59p buy the one with Fair Trade logo on it .
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Fairtrade, when i first explained it to my brother he thought it meant trade fairly but i corrected him and said: fair tade means when food is made from a different country and is brought to us, we trade them and give them money for thier kids school and organisations. All around the world and countrys, people make food for E.G. chocolate like kit kat, coffee, juice, cereal and fruit. cocoa is made from Ghana, navrongo.
Fairtrade is very important,you should always buy choclate or fruit with a fair trade logo on it.Fair trade means that 3pounds go to to the farmers who plant the cocoa beans.
All around the world people make food like:choclate bars,kit kat,coffee,juice and cereal is made from Africa(ghana,navrongo and nigeria).If its not Fair trade the farmers will only get 3p.
Fairtrade is really importatnt because all the workers that grow the cocoa beans
and every thing else get 70p for all there hard work.If its not fairtrade they will get
3p.Thats not alot.Just think all that hard work they do for only 3p!Fairtrade is really
good to all the farmers and people that work hard on growing everything we need.
Hi, it’s Nina here! I came to the school last year to work with some classes on Fairtrade. Including the sock puppet film about Fairtrade cotton farmers, which was great! I’m looking forward to working with you again this year for the Fairtrade week at the end of February. And before that, I’m looking forward to meeting the fairtrade steering group at your next meeting! See you then, and keep up the good work promoting Fairtrade in your school, because, as you know, it’s very important and really helps people in other countries!
Fairtrade are mostly in shops.I have seen fairtrade chocolate,fruit such as apples and a lot lot more,hot chocolate,tea (all kinds),I have seen a lot lot more things too.If I name you them all I will be here all day and all night(not really).
I have seen lots of thing that have the fair trade sigh like chocolate,bubblegum and hot
chocolate.
I have seen many things with fairtrade signs on them.
The most prouducts with faitrade are coffee , chocolats ,fruits and cereal
When i did 1 to 1 with Mrs Short and Fizza i saw the fairtrade sigh on a biscuit bag.
I think I heard Heaton Primary School is working towards a fair trade status though I am not exactly sure if they are doing the fair trade staus. I have seen chocolate,hot chocolate,biscuit packet and tea.
In our class we have been finding out information about fair trade and which contry’s fair trade comrs from. Country’s like Honduras, Mexico and South Africa and contry’s like that. We have also made some of those country’s with plastercine and it looks amzing. You should come and see it we made flag’s to go with it.
I’ve seen many fair trade items too. But i like Various Games. It was awesome.
In our class we have been learning about tea and rice.
Also we have made feet and put are pledge inside the foot.
I will promise to buy fairtrade juice and a frairtrade chocolate every day.
I will promis to by fair tray choclat and also by crisp
I have seen fairtrade choclate bars.
Fairtrade can be on bnanas choclate.
I pledge to be a fairtrade person.We have been doing our footprints.I think fairtrade is
great beacause every gets paid fairly.
I have seen fairtrade juice out and about in the playground.
I have seen fair trade chocklet i wonder if we could bring stuff to scool.
Fairtrade gives the people money that they deserve.
when you buy fairtrade it costs more than normal . If it is not fairtrade and you want to work how much more it is for faietrade so why not double the price to find out how much fairtrade costs.
For the past few weeks I have only seen one Fairtrade product wich is a teabag.
I’ve seen many fairtrade products such as … chocolate,coffee,cotten,sugar,teabags,bananas.Top fact:when you buy a fairtrade product then half of that money goes to the poor fairtrade farmers.
The Fairtrade products i have seen in shops are Tea bags,chocolate and coffee
The fairtrade products I have seen in the shops are tea bags hot chocolate tea and bananas and cofee and juice.
I will eat my fair tray crisp and chaclat#
I found the Fairtray cholat and Irate it.
I have seen lots of things that has the fairtrade sigh on.
I have seen lots of things in the shop that arae Fairtrade such as sugar,chocolate,coffee and Fairtrade juice and much more things.
I have bought fair trade juice and fair trade choclate bars they were both yummy I loved them.
I have seen many fairtrade products such as bananas,coffee,tea bags,chocolate,juice, sugar and cotton.
If you buy anything with a fairtrade sign it will help the farmers get more money and that mean’s they can buy more things to help them live like food, fresh water,money and lot’s more things.
I have bought fair trade coke,crispand choclate from the shop and it was delious.
I think fair trade is good becouse some of the things have fairtrade.Mr Harrison.
I will try to buy more fairtrade stuff and I will encourge other people aswell.
If you buy fairtrade things farmers will get the money that they deserve NOT 3p.
They will get e.c.t 3pound 1pound.
At least they More money that they got before.
PLEASE BUY FAIRTRADE!
I would try to make my family eat more fatred things
If you buy fairtrade things like chocolate,cane sugar,tea bags and much more you will help the life of a farmer and his family!
fair trade is helpfull and it gives the oppurtunity to buy them and help the farmers with they children and give them more money so they could live like us
I LOVE FAIRTRADE CHOCLATE.
As a member of the fairtrade school councile group i think that everybody should be able to buy fairtrade items because its like buying normal items but more benafit goes to the hard working farmers. I have tried my best that nearly every thing i buy is fairtrade e.g chocolate and coffee i dont get the one thats nearest or anything like that i actually look and look for the fairtrade symbol and if its not there i just buy any.
In my opinion ,I think that fair trade is all about buying things so that you personally know that what you eat some one has worked hard for it and then they have there well earned and deserved money.Does anybody agree with me?
I have seen so many things that are fairtrade chocolate,hot chocolate,coffee and tea.
In year 6 we are writing a letter to persuade shopkeepers to sell Fairtrade products. If the shopkeeper knows what fairtrade is and how it works then the shopkeeper can tell its custermers. We want alot of people to buy Fairtrade product because it would help the farmer and its family.
I agree with you Aisha.
In the uk farmers use tractors,but fairtrade farmers use animals such as donkeys and bulls.There are two types of farming in the uk which are arable
and livestock fruit,such as strawberrie,apples farmers produce coca and banans.
we celebrate fair-trade because to help the poor farmers get there fair
money because if we don’t it will not be fair.
I have got loads of fairtrade products at home like kick kat,cofee,dairy milk,bannanas and cereal.