Teachers and pupils wanting to get involved in fair trade issues in their school.  Will help you with:

This event is for everyone in the Greater area working in education who wants to help schools become part of the fair trade movement. In particular we would like teachers to come and bring one or two pupils with them. Activities and workshops will be interactive, informative and practical — the aim is for you to return to your schools enthused and enabled to use Fairtrade to fulfil the Every Child Matters outcomes on ‘Making a positive contribution’, ‘Enhance and enrich the curriculum’ and ‘Enjoy economic well-being.’

• Discuss the proposed FT school guidelines from the Fairtrade Foundation and what they mean to you

• Hear what a dried-mango producer from Burkina Faso has to say about Fairtrade

• Get ideas of how to include Fairtrade issues within and beyond the curriculum

• Chat to others in the same position!

• Workshops run by schools involved in fair trade already

• Fairtrade in Schools: a practical guide

• Mango producers from Burkina Faso

• The Trading Game

• Drumming and Fairtrade

• Fairtrade in Ecoschools and Healthy Schools

• Young Co-ooperatives in Primary Schools

• Young Co-operatives in Secondary Schools

• Go Bananas for Fairtrade!

• Fairtrade Chocolate Fountain

• Development Education Project

• Action for Sustainable Living

• Traidcraft

• Olive Co-op

• Fayre

• Healthy Schools

• Eco-Schools

• Environmental Education Network

Raichael Lock, Network Coordinator, Environmental Education Network, Bridge-5 Mill, 22a Beswick Street, Ancoats, . M4 7HR.  Tel: 0161 273 8881.  Fax: 0161 273 8156.  E-mail: [email protected]

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