An Afternoon at St Ninian's Roman Catholic Primary School

St Ninian's Roman Catholic Primary School Newton Stewart

I was invited along to St Ninian's Roman Catholic Primary School for the afternoon to talk about Fairtrade. It would lovely to meet the children, who already knew quite a lot about how Fairtrade works and why it's needed. What did surprise me what I went there to talk to them and to teach them something and one boy there taught me something!

The boy said that the Fairtrade logo was a man waving. I asked why he was waving and the boy said he was happy and was waving his money in the air. I had never realized until then that the logo was indeed of a person, and he does have an arm raised. How amazing!

Can you see the waving man on the Fairtrade logo?

We had a little talk about Fairtrade and then we went off to the staff room in groups to melt Co-op Fairtrade chocolate. I had taken milk, dark and white. After melting the chocolate we went back into the classroom to dip Co-op Fairtrade bananas into the chocolate - yummy! One little girl had given up chocolate for lent and showed amazing restraint, she had a couple of extra bananas - which ironically didn't feel like a fair trade to me.

After washing up plates and forks, sticky hands and faces, we got into teams for a Fairtrade quiz. You can get a copy of the quizz here... 

And then it was time to go home. Such lovely children and a really friendly class, it was a joy to meet them.