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Armathwaite school's take action project!
- 1. ARMATHWAITE SCHOOL’S TAKE ACTION PROJECT! Armathwaiteschool went to the Marmalade festival to engage with people about the sort of sugar they buy.
- 2. ABOUT US Our schoolhas 75 pupils and each and every one of us is very independent. We like taking risks and stepping out of our comfort zone! Us as pirates!
- 3. OUR GOAL In ourclass we are leaning about the interdependence of sugar locally and globally. Our goal was to make people think about what sort of sugar they buy. What sort of sugar do you and your family usually buy Fairtrade or local sugar? Sugar cane: can be Fairtrade Sugar beet: can be British
- 4. OUR STALL Two ofour pupils helping to challenge peoples minds about what choices you make when you buy sugar.
- 5. OUR STALL This game wascalled the diamond nine. Our question tree We got people to do games to let them make choices and ask questions.
- 6. OUR STALL Malawi Ourschool has a link with Malawi. We designed a sugar package for people to colour in and fill with Fairtrade sugar sachets from Malawi.
- 7. OUR STALL The unfairtower building game. One person had 5 straws, 5 sticky labels and some scissors; the other person only had 5 pieces of news paper.
- 8. HOW MUCH MORE WOULDYOU PAY? Fairtrade: 12 people would pay 50p more to buy Fairtrade sugar. 6 people would pay £1.00 more to too buy Fairtrade sugar. 3 people would pay 20p more to buy Fairtrade sugar. 1 person would pay £2 more to buy Fairtrade sugar. local: 6 people would pay 50p more to buy local sugar. 3 people would pay £1 more to buy local sugar. 1 person would pay 10p more to buy local sugar. 1 person would pay 20p more to buy local sugar.
- 9. TEAMWORK Our school workedtogether as a big team to design and make all the activities and then we took it in turn to run the stall. We worked together with the North Cumbria Committee of the Co- operative Membership to promote Fairtrade products and they gave us 50 pounds worth of vouchers to buy Fairtrade products. The Fairtrade Foundation gave us leaflets to give out.
- 10. OUR RESULTS After themarmalade festival, we hope to have made a lot of people think about the choices they make when they buy sugar and not just taking a random one off the shelf. We wish to make an impact on other people, to make them think about Fairtrade and local producers and we hope that in the future life may be better for farmers locally and in other countries. Our school tries to inspire other schools to do what we do!
- 11. BEST PARTS A LOTOF PEOPLE CAME TO OUR STALL!!!!!!!! We had a great time at the Marmalade Festival. We made people think. It made us more confident with people we don’t know. We met children from other schools who do Fairtrade. Even Paddington Bear came to our stall. We liked organising and running the stall.
- 12. BAD PARTS We foundsetting the stall up hard because there was so much to take and it was hard to put the tent up, also it was raining. When we went around asking people if they wanted to come to the stall some people said no and we didn’t think that people would say no to us.
- 13. WHAT WE WOULDDO DIFFERENTLY
- 14. WHAT DID WELEARN ENGAGING PEOPLE TO THINK IS NOT ALWAYS THAT EASY! We learnt that some people seemed to feel a bit guilty when we asked them if they bought Fairtrade or local because they thought it might upset us (because we said we were a Fairtrade school) so sometimes they weren’t honest. One of the people that came to our stall thought that she should put Fairtrade at the top because that was what our stall was about. YOU NEED DIFFERENT WAYS TO ENGAGE DIFFERENT PEOPLE
- 15. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING Thankyou for listening and we hope that you have enjoyed it as much as we did at the marmalade festival.