ARMATHWAITE SCHOOL’S TAKE ACTION PROJECT!Armathwaite school went to the Marmalade festival to engage with people about the sort of sugar they buy.

ABOUT US

Our school has 75 pupils and each and every one of us is very independent. We like taking risks and stepping out

of our comfort zone!

Us as pirates!

OUR GOAL In our class we are leaning about the interdependence of sugar locally and globally. Our goal was to make people think about what sort of sugar they buy.

What sort of sugar do you and your family usually buy Fairtrade or local sugar?

Sugar cane: can be Fairtrade

Sugar beet: can be British

OUR STALLTwo of our pupils helping to challenge peoples minds about what choices you make when you buy sugar.

OUR STALL

This game was called the diamond nine.

Our question tree

We got people to do games to let them make choices and ask questions.

OUR STALL

Malawi Our school has a link with Malawi.

We designed a sugar package for people to colour in and fill with Fairtrade sugar sachets from Malawi.

OUR STALLThe unfair tower building game.

One person had 5 straws, 5 sticky labels and some scissors; the other person only had 5 pieces of news paper.

HOW MUCH MORE WOULD YOU PAY?

Fairtrade:

12 people would pay 50p more to buy Fairtrade sugar.

6 people would pay £1.00 more to too buy Fairtrade sugar.

3 people would pay 20p more to buy Fairtrade sugar.

1 person would pay £2 more to buy Fairtrade sugar.

local: 6 people would pay 50p more to buy local sugar.

3 people would pay £1 more to buy local sugar.

1 person would pay 10p more to buy local sugar.

1 person would pay 20p more to buy local sugar.

TEAMWORKOur school worked together as a big team to design and make all the activities and then we took it in turn to run the stall.

We worked together with the North Cumbria Committee of the Co-operative Membership to promote Fairtrade products and they gave us 50 pounds worth of vouchers to buy Fairtrade products.

The Fairtrade Foundation gave us leaflets to give out.

OUR RESULTS

After the marmalade festival, we hope to have made a lot of people think about the choices they make when they buy sugar and not just taking a random one off the shelf.

We wish to make an impact on other people, to make them think about Fairtrade and local producers and we hope that in the future life may be better for farmers locally and in other countries.

Our school tries to inspire other schools to do what we do!

BEST PARTS

A LOT OF PEOPLE CAME TO OUR STALL!!!!!!!!

We had a great time at the Marmalade Festival.

We made people think.

It made us more confident with people we don’t know.

We met children from other schools who do Fairtrade.Even

Paddington Bear came to our stall.

We liked organising and running the stall.

BAD PARTS

We found setting the stall up hard because there was so much to take and it was hard to put the tent up, also it was raining.

When we went around asking people if they wanted to come to the stall some people said no and we didn’t think that people would say no to us.

WHAT WE WOULD DO DIFFERENTLY

We would try to attra

ct more

people to our stall by going

around the other stalls and

asking people if they would like

to come to our stall. Also, we

would be more persuasive when

we ask people if they want to

come so that they think ‘oh that

sounds really fun’.

WHAT DID WE LEARNENGAGING PEOPLE TO THINK IS NOT ALWAYS THAT EASY!

We learnt that some people seemed to feel a bit guilty when we asked them if they bought Fairtrade or local because they thought it might upset us (because we said we were a Fairtrade school) so sometimes they weren’t honest.

One of the people that came to our stall thought that she should put Fairtrade at the top because that was what our stall was about.

YOU NEED DIFFERENT WAYS TO ENGAGE DIFFERENT PEOPLE

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING

Thank you for listening and we hope that you have enjoyed it as much as we did at the marmalade festival.