St Stephen’s Primary, Dalmuir

St Stephen’s Primary in Dalmuir recently held their own fantastic fair trade focus day in their school, which started with SCIAF’s Christina Leitch explaining to the whole school at a special assembly why fair trade is so important.

Each class were then involved in different fair trade activities all of which encouraged pupils to explore the meaning of fair trade. The focus in P1- P4 was to raise awareness of fair trade and the logo. The children were involved in things like making fair-trade fruit salads, colouring fair trade logos and learning a fair trade song.

Primary 5s organised a fair trade tuck shop, and every pupil had the opportunity to taste and buy a variety of delicious Fairtrade products, which had been kindly donated to the school by Clydebank Cooperative, with all the proceeds raised by the tuck shop going SCIAF.

The rest of the school had a various activities including making their own fair trade rap, and investigating case studies of the difference fair trade actually makes to people in developing countries. P7 pupils presented their own research on the benefits of fair trade in a PowerPoint presentation.

A brilliant day was rounded off with parents being invited in to the school for pupils share with them all that they had been doing throughout the day.