We are a Fair Achiever School which means that we are committed to learning about, promoting and taking action for Fair Trade.
This year our Mini Vinnie Group has taken on the responsibility of steering Fairtrade in our school.
They devote one meeting every half term to ensuring that we implement our Fairtrade policy and take action. To read about our recent activities, please read our blog posts by clicking on the logo below.
This Fairtrade Fortnight, the focus is on ‘Climate, Fairtrade and You’. The children will discover how their choices can make a difference to the lives of people around the world. They will be learning about the people who grow our food and drink. On Friday, both...
Thank you to everyone who came and supported our Big Brew for Fairtrade fortnight. We raised £163 for Traidcraft Exchange who support vunerable people to get a better deal and fight trade injustice. Well done to to our Faith in Action Group in year 6 who baked...
This week, to mark Fairtrade Fortnight, Year 4 delivered an assembly about the importance of the Fairtrade Movement. The children talked about the importance of forest-friendly cocoa farming, the need for all farmers to be paid a living income and how caring for...
Year 3 have been learning about the journey of a banana in as part of Fairtrade Fortnight. The children discussed the different roles in bringing a banana to our local shops. They role-played the different jobs and discussed how much each person...
The children in Reception enjoyed following a recipe to make Fairtrade muffins for the Big Brew. We looked the different ingredients to see if they were Fairtrade products. Our bananas, sugar and chocolate chips were all Fairtrade....
In PE this week, the children have enjoyed creating their own dance! They have thought about the journey of Pablo the Fairtrade Super Banana. Our dance included; planting a banana tree, washing the bananas and sailing across the ocean. We all had great...
We had a fabulous range of costumes in Year Six for our world book day. We chose to focus on a Fair Trade based story to link in with Fair Trade fortnight. This story was about Anansi. You can hear it here. To set the story in its context, we looked at the story of...
Fairtrade Fortnight runs from Monday 24th February until 8th March. This year the focus is on cocoa and the role women play in achieving living incomes. In school, the children will be learning about fairtrade issues through lessons and activities. On Thursday 5th...
Matthew Wilders, a past pupil of St. Mary & St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School has been on a VSO placement to Kenya from October to December 2018. On Friday Matthew came back to school to talk to the children in KS2 about his placement and about the 17...
We are delighted to say that after submitting our evidence, we have contacted by the Fairtrade Foundation to say that they have awarded us with ‘FairAchiever’ status once again because of the outstanding quality of the school’s work and commitment to Fairtrade. We...
For Fairtrade fortnight, Year 4 have been reading a book called Cloud Tea Monkeys. The book began with the arrival of monkeys in the classroom, they then smelt a variety of teas and had to work out what the new book might be about. We read through the book and the...