Fairtrade Fortnight 2017

Introduction

Fairtrade Fortnight 2017(27 February to 12 March) aims to help people to understand the principles of fairtrade. The values promoted by Fairtrade are those of sustainability, interdependence and fairer, more equal trading conditions for producers. This year, Fairtrade Fortnight’s theme focus is ‘Fair Trade Breaks’, reminding us to ‘put Fair Trade in your break, take exploitation out’. As global consumers, our choices – not only in food, but also in clothes, etc. – affect people from all over the world. How can we produce and consume goods in a fairer, more ethical and sustainable way?

The Global Learning Programme Waleshas produced this resource based on work by the Development Education Centre South Yorkshire (DECSY) for GLP. It is designed to support teachers wishing to develop their pupils’ knowledge of interdependence, global trade and fairtrade, while offering opportunities to consider the concepts of fairness, rights, sustainability and how individuals can make a difference. It includes:

●history of cocoa activity

●progression grid to support planning and teaching about trade and fair trade

●trade and fair trade resources list.

Learning objectives

This resourceis targeted particularly at Foundation Phase and Key Stages 2 and 3, with some opportunities for older pupils. It will particularly support teachers in developing:

●pupils’ knowledge and understanding of global themes, including development, interdependence and sustainability, with a focus ontrade and its impact in different parts of the world

●pupils’ enquiry, critical thinking and discussion skills

●opportunities for pupils to consider their own and others’ values.

Resources

History of cocoa activity

●Download history of cocoa activity here

●Download history of cocoa timeline here

Learning about trade and fair trade: opportunities and outcomes

The outcomes in this grid were produced by teachers working with the Development Education Centre South Yorkshire (DECSY)as a series of 'I can', ‘I know’ and ‘I understand’ statements to help children to make sense of the concepts involved in fairtrade, including concepts of fairness, rights and how individuals can make a difference. These statements build in progression in expectations from Foundation Phase to Key Stage3, linked to the GLP-W framework for progression, and to a range of resources to support teaching about Fair Trade, including developing critical thinking about the idea.

●Download planning and progression grid here

Resourcesfocused on trade and fair tradein Welsh and English

Assemblies

Foundation Phase and Key Stage 2

Christian Aid

  • Fair’s Fair in 2014 Assembly: focused on chocolate, with assembly notes with activity and short PowerPoint of images from Ghana.

Traidcraft:

  • Fairtrade Fortnight 2016 Assembly:PowerPoint of images, with presenters’ notes and some captions in English.

Fairtrade Foundation

  • Cocoa Assembly from 2015 Fairtrade Fortnight, involving pupils as news readers
  • An adventure with Mr Tea Mr Tea takes a family to Kenyato show them how tea is grown
  • The banana squeeze shows the banana supply chain and the impact it has on famers.

Key Stage 3

Christian Aid:

  • Fairtrade a Go Go Assembly, focuses on the global stories in our shopping, with assembly notes and short PowerPoint of images from the KuapaKokoo cooperative, Ghana

Oxfam: (English).

  • Looking behind the logo: Assembly plan focused on a worker in a sportswear factory.

Traidcraft:

  • Fairtrade fortnight 2015 assembly:PowerPoint of images, with presenters’ notes and some captions in English.

Fairtrade Foundation

  • Cocoa Assembly from 2015 Fairtrade Fortnight, involving pupils as news readers
  • The banana squeeze shows the banana supply chain and the impact it has on famers
  • The breakfast assembly focuses on fair trade in cocoa, tea and bananas.

Activities and lesson plans available from Fairtrade Wales

Foundation Phase to Key Stage 2

  • Fair Trade and Cotton: PowerPoint with notes for assembly or lesson, focused on food and cotton with explanation of fair trade and its benefits
  • Fair Trade and Chocolate:PowerPoint with notes for a lesson and some ideas for activities focused on where chocolate comes from, with a short summary of Fair Trade
  • Charlie and Lola Journey of Chocolate:PowerPoint of the story of Charlie and Lola, and what they find out about chocolate
  • Pablo Story Cards, telling the story of Pablo the Columbian banana and how he campaigned for Fair Trade!

Key Stage 2

  • Banana Split: role-play game focused on the banana chain of production, and who gets what out of it; it is being revised and updated in early 2016.

Key Stage 3

  • Understanding cotton: lesson plans with supporting resources focused on trade, the chain of production for cotton, difficulties faced by producers and workers, and fair trade alternatives.
  • Banana Split: role-play game focused on the banana chain of production, and who gets what out of it.

Teachers

  • Ten Key Stage 2 lesson plans focused on embedding fair trade into the curriculum, DEC Cumbria with Fairtrade Wales
  • Fairtrade Wales also produces a number of bilingual information and factsheets, for example on fair trade and climate change (English)

Other resources

Amnesty International

  • Tale of the Orange Juice:Key Stage 2 activity using photos to understand the product supply chain.

Tradecraft schools

  • Teaching resources: teaching plans, assemblies and resources for a range of subjects and ages
  • Producers’ stories:detailed stories about individual producers from Bolivia, Chile, India, Malawi, South Africa and Thailand and their products, with commodity profiles of honey, rice, sugar, raisins and quinoa, showing how they are grown and traded.

Resources focused on trade and fair trade in English

Foundation Phase

Pablo the Super-Banana, Fairtrade Foundation

Pablo the Super-Banana is on a mission to help younger pupils to find outhow bananas are grown and how they end up in our shops. Watch the film or download the story cards on this page to talk to your pupils about bananas and farming.

The world came to my place today, J. Readman and L. Honor Roberts, Eden Project, 2002

A storybook that shows how most everyday household items come from around the world; it includes maps. For a review see

Key Stage 2

Primary school assembly, Fairtrade Foundation

The script for a role-play assembly for Fairtrade Fortnight 2017

Fairtrade Breaks lesson kit, Fairtrade Foundation

A set of activities for primary schools created with schools' catererChartwells for Fairtrade Fortnight 2017:

My Fairtrade Adventure, Fairtrade Foundation

The resource follows Tayna, a 13 year old pupil from London, as she visits cocoa farmers of Conacado, a Fairtrade co-operative in the Dominican Republic, to learn what trade is, where the ingredients in her chocolate bar come from and why Fairtrade is needed.

Tea in Malawi: What happens when you choose fairtrade? Fairtrade Foundation

This lesson enables pupils to find out how tea is grown and processed, then with this as background they work together to make decisions about how they would choose to spend Fairtrade Premium money.

Unpacking the supermarket bag, Making a meal of it, Oxfam

These activities help pupils to understand the importance of food in our lives, and answer questions like: Where does our food come from? Why are people hungry? What can we do to help? The resource includes a photo gallery, activities on fair trade, explanations of terms such as hunger and starvation, and supporting materials for teachers.

Find your way through trade, Oxfam

Starting with everyday items from the supermarket, the lessons explore where items actually come from and how they reach us. Drawing out links between raw materials and finished items this resource gets learners thinking about the global supply chain, trade rules and who benefits from them.

Go bananas, Oxfam

This resource includes a photo gallery and captions that follow the journey of a banana from the Caribbean to the UK, highlighting how bananas pass through many hands and processes from planting to eating, and also who makes money from the process.

Key Stages 2-3

Fairtrade food and drink picture quiz,Fairtrade Foundation

A quick quiz about what our favourite foods and drinks look like while they are growing:

Fairtrade FootballsSlideshow, Fairtrade Foundation

A slideshow about the journey of a Fairtrade football from Pakistan, to kick off discussions about how our footballs are made

Ready to say goodbye to chocolate? Fairtrade Foundation

Pupils find out and learn how chocolate may be under threat and what might be done about it, using this video to start discussion and raise pupils’ awareness of the issue of cocoa farmers’ wages.

Leandro and the Mysterious Case of the Disappearing and Reappearing River, Fairtrade Foundation (KS3)

This geography lesson focuses on tea, and builds learners’ understanding of hydrology, climate change, and of how human and physical processes interact to influence environments and the climate in kenya Through a focus on sustainable food production, they will also be able to reflect on the effective functioning of natural systems for our food and livelihoods.

Tea production in Kenya, DECSY

This resource is a PowerPoint photo sequence lookingat the different stages of tea production and is designed as an introduction for understanding who gets what when you buy a packet of tea.

The clothes line, Oxfam

This series of lesson plans and photo story includes an exploration of the journey of cotton from the field to the shops; a quiz about India; and a class survey about the origins of the pupils' own clothes. There is a supporting information sheet on cotton, trade and fair trade.

Pa papaa, Comic Relief

This website provides resources to teach about Fairtrade and chocolate, a film and photo sequence explaining the cocoa journey from bean to bar, and webcasts made by the children of cocoa farmers; a school subscription is needed for some resources.

How did trade get global? Royal Geographical Society

This lesson explores how and why trade has become global. Pupils learn that through time, trade has become increasingly global and discover the reasons for this. This activity provides background information about trade before pupils can understand the principles of fair trade.

Global trade – Investigating fair trade, Royal Geographical Society

This lesson plan helps investigate the fair trade approach to global trade. Pupils learn about the positive impact that people buying fair trade products has on communities of farmers and manufacturers in less developed countries, for example through better working conditions and a fair working wage.

The chocolate trade game, Christian Aid

Help pupils trace the journey of the cocoa bean from tree to chocolate bar, and discover the difficulties workers in the chocolate trade face.This game also highlights the positivepart that trade canplay in communitiesthat are developing their economies.

Trading trainers game, CAFOD

The game is set in an imaginary Latin American shanty town, where small family businesses are making training shoes to sell to the local market. Their aim is to make ends meet. However the country itself is in economic crisis and inflation is rocketing. How will they survive?

Wake up and smell the coffee, CAFOD

Pupils take part in a role-play in which they promote fair trade products, involving a farmer, a producer, a pitcher, a panel of ethical investors and a CAFOD campaigner.

The paper bag game, Christian Aid

This interactive game gives an insight into what lifeis like forpoor people trying to earn a living, challenging pupils to find out if they could survive on the streets of Kolkata.

Key Stages 3-4

Fairtrade Breaks lesson kit, Fairtrade Foundation

A set of activities for secondary schools created with schools' catererChartwells for Fairtrade Fortnight 2017:

The trading game, Christian Aid

This gamehelps to show how trade affects the prosperity of a country – both positively and negatively. It introduces trade issues with a simple outline of some very complex relationships, including the gaps between rich and poor nations.

My learning

This resource is divided into two sections and focuses on the subject of fair trade linked to the history of the Atlantic slave trade:

From slave trade to fair trade:18th century Global Citizensexamines the sugar boycott that was encouraged by Slavery Abolitionists, urging the general public to stop buying sugar produced by slaves in the West Indies.

From slave trade to fair trade:21st century Global Citizens looks at the products of slavery in modern society and introduces the fair trade system of producing food and goods.

Resources focused on rights and fairness

Foundation Phase

First steps to rights, P. Hand, Unicef UK

Introducing young children to their rights, this pack contains an 80-page book of activities on families, homes, water, food, diversity and other themes, and includes 15 x A3 colour photos with a global perspective. It is available to order on the Unicef UK website:

‘Rights, wants and needs’activity kit, Unicef Canada

This activity kit provides cards that can be classified as ‘needs’ or ‘wants’, and enables pupils to make the difference between the two concepts.

Key Stages 2-3

UN Convention of the Rights of the Child

Unicef poster in child-friendly language.

Rights and responsibilities in the classroom: our world, our rights, Amnesty International

The aim of this resource is to encourage children to think about both rights and responsibilities in the classroom, and identify behaviour that respects and disrespects human rights.

Right here, right now, Amnesty International

This resource is for teachers who want to explore with their pupils the role of human rights and demonstrate a human rights approach in their work.

Key Stages 3-4

Timber deforestation role play, DECSY

This resource is a role playing exercise that considers the human dimension of deforestation, from the perspectives of different groups of people with an interest in the felling of trees. The game allows the exploration of ‘globalisation’ and ‘sustainability’ themes, and encourages ethical debate.Visit register for an account, then log in and search for 'Timber'.

Get Global, Oxfam

Get Global is a teachers' guide on how to facilitate active global citizenship.It allows pupils to move from thinking about issues that are only important to them, to planning and participating in action, to reflect on their performance and assess their work.

Further resources and reading

Support from the GLP-W

  • World Food Day resource, including critical thinking about Should We Buy Green Beans from Kenya?
  • Just Bananas? Using a country study to explore fairer trade: PSE resource for Key Stage 2
  • Should religious people buy fair trade clothing more often than non-religious people?− religious education resource for Key Stage 3
  • Support for critical thinking from the GLP-W
  • Support on progressionin global learning.

Support from Hwb

  • Fairtrade – global citizenship challengeshort introductory PowerPoint, also suitable for younger students

Key Stage 2 Superschemes – Global Connections: Investigating World Trade, GA

This Geographical Association resourceincludes a unit plan, sample lesson plans and resources for teaching about trade, fair trade and globalisation. You can order it from the GA website or directly at

Additional information for teachers

  • Children’s commissioner for Wales site (including children’s rights)
  • Fairtrade Foundation website:
  • The Conversation website: includes updates on food security and fairtrade
  • Blog about Equi-Trade, potentially the next step after Fairtrade:
  • A counter view:

Resource written for the Global Learning Programme Wales by the Geographical Association with DECSY.

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