FAIRTRADE

FAIRTRADE AWARDS

FAIRTRADE ACTION PLAN

2023-2026

1. Annually create and maintain a pupil group with responsibility for Fairtrade throughout the school.
2. Create and adopt a Fairtrade Policy to use in our school.
3. Continue to learn about Fairtrade in lessons.
4. Celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight every year.
5. Hold a Fairtrade Assembly for Fairtrade Fortnight.
6. Invite Fairtrade speakers to school assemblies.
7. Hold a Fairtrade Coffee Morning for the school and local community.
8. Raise money for Fairtrade.
9. Use Fairtrade products in school e.g. for meetings and special events.
10. Organise competitions to promote Fairtrade.
11. Develop pupil led workshops to teach about Fairtrade.
12. Share our learning about Fairtrade with local schools, nurseries and the local community.
13. Promote Fairtrade within the wider community through digital tools such as Seesaw, X and our school website.
14. Complete teacher and learner audits.

FAIRTRADE POLICY

Our school is committed to supporting, using and promoting Fairtrade, wherever possible. We believe that Fairtrade can make a difference to the lives of young people throughout the world by improving living and working conditions for the people who grow the things we buy.

In St Mary’s we will:

Ensure that Fairtrade and Fairtrade issues, and the concept of ‘fairness’, are embedded in our curriculum and in whole school activities, and the culture of our school.
Promote Fairtrade in St Mary’s and our wider community, by taking part in Fairtrade Fortnight, completing Fairtrade Challenges and highlighting Fairtrade activities in local media, newsletters, on Seesaw, our school website and on our Twitter/X feed.
Ensure Fairtrade is part of our School Improvement Plan within our plans for Learning for Sustainability.
Use Fairtrade products around the school wherever possible: in the staffroom, at meetings and events we run in school or in the community, in ingredients in cookery lessons and in gifts.
Use the Fairtrade Schools Award identities where allowed on the website and stationery.
Put this Policy into practice through our Global Group that meets regularly to: monitor and drive forward the school’s support for Fairtrade, make sure those connected with our school are aware of this Policy and can support it, take responsibility for Fairtrade Challenges and our Fairtrade Action Plan.

This Policy is supported by:

(name)

(signature)

(on behalf of) ________________________________________________The Head Teacher

____________________________________________________________The Staff

____________________________________________________________Parent Council

____________________________________________________________The Global Group

Date reviewed: ______________________ _

FAIRTRADE COFFEE MORNING

Our Fairtrade Fortnight 2024 Coffee Morning was an enormous success, raising just under £500.00 for Fairtrade and enabled us to share the Fairtrade message with our whole school and wider community.