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Fairtrade Fortnight 2010 - 22 February to 7 March

Here are some ideas for Fairtrade Fortnight starting from 22nd Feb - 7th March. If you would like to borrow any resources or any assemblies please ring GEMK.

Log onto www.fairtrade.org.uk, click on products, and find out how many Fairtrade products are there now. What’s the most recent item to become Fairtrade? Search ‘chocolate’ and find out which was the first product to have the Fairtrade Mark.

Start with a Fairtrade Assembly, see www.risc.org.uk/education to download RISC’s fair trade assembly pack.

Focus on key Fairtrade products at www.fairtrade.org.uk Try fair trade recipes, explore the fair trade fashion industry, and play with fair trade sports balls, find out about fair trade school uniforms

Use the Fairtrade Foundation’s BIG SWAP action guide for ideas along with further ideas for fun activities and events

www.fairtrade.org.uk/thebigswap

Swap your usual stuff for Fairtrade stuff

For this year's Fairtrade Fortnight we're asking the nation to join us in The Big Swap. For two whole weeks we'll be asking you to swap your usual stuff for Fairtrade stuff. Your usual bananas for Fairtrade bananas, your usual cotton socks for Fairtrade cotton socks, and your usual cuppa for a Fairtrade cuppa. This means that every time you go shopping, you can use your wallet to make a stand.

Get your school involved in Fairtrade Fortnight with specially designed resources from traidcraft – www.traidcraft.co.uk

The Snack Attack Challenge is a competition for school groups (years 3-13 and equivalent) to design a brand new Fairtrade Snack, its packaging and accompanying marketing campaign.

Visit www.fairtrade.org.uk/schools - more resources for schools about fair-trade.

Please click on Fairtrade resources on our list of resources. Please ring us if you would like to borrow GEMK resources

Some assemblies and lesson plans from Christian aid:

learn.christianaid.org.uk

www.papapaa.org - Teach about Fairtrade and cocoa

-Use the fairtrade fortnight advert calendar to count down the days - includes facts and figures and suggestions of things to do.

-Showcase some faitrade products and help children to understand where they come from and how fairtrade helps the producer including women

-Have a day of lessons based around fairtrade themes

-Survey a local shop/supermarket and find out what fairtrade products it stocks

-Sell fairtrade products on a stall.

-Hold a poster competition. Have a fairtrade prize.

-Buy some fairtrade sports balls and play games. Or play a fairtrade game - try the snakes and ladders fairtrade game or borrow one from GEMK, eg. the chocolate game or the trading game

-Allow the children to taste fairtrade products or do a blind tasting event.

-Put up fairtrade images around your school/school hall – you can borrow from GEMK

- Check on the globe to find out where some fairtrade products come from.

-Get a large world map and connect products with the places they come from or have a quiz to see if products can be placed on the country they come from.

-to become a Fairtrade School, log on to fairtrade.org.uk/schools for details.