With Fairtrade fortnight coming to a close, a selection of children spent the morning at Westcliff Primary School taking part in a Fairtrade workshop.
Sue, Jane, Ian and Wendy from Devon Development Education met children from Cockwood, Westcliff, Ratcliffe, Kenn, Kenton and Starcross School as well as students at Dawlish Community College to tell them all about the important work Fairtrade do to support SOFA: The Small Organic Farmers’ Association, in Sri Lanka.
You can click here to see the full presentation.
The children were then encouraged to try four different spices, within buns, biscuits, crisps and ice 
cream to describe the flavour and identify the spice. One child said the ginger biscuit “was Hot! very Hot!” while another thought the vanilla ice cream was “creamy and delicious!”
The children also learnt that the Fairtrade logo was a picture of a Farmer stood in a field waving with the green crops below him and the blue sky behind. Have a look at the logo to the right and see if you can work it out.
Check out this report below written by the Cockwood School children who attended the workshop:
On Friday 11th March, Year 5 and 6 School Councillors went to visit Westcliff School to learn more about Fairtrade Spices. There were 6 schools attending this conference.
First we did a quiz to test our knowledge of Fairtrade products. It was challenging but most people got the answers correct. It was interesting to increase our knowledge pond of Fairtrade issues. We listened to a talk from the Fairtrade Coordinator Sue Errington. She focused on where some spices grew in the world and how they are shipped to Europe. She mainly talked about Sri Lankan spices such as vanilla and nutmeg.
Finally we did a taste test with all the spices we talked about in different foods. Our personal favourites were Vanilla Ice Cream and the Peppercorn Crisps. The Majority of us disliked the sugary ginger sweet.
It was a truly amazing experience.
