This page presents some of our outcomes which were translated into English so that we can share our ideas in other countries.
1) The start of our project - Presentation and tasting of the products
One day in September Klára suggested to learn more about Fairtrade ideas. Her friends Tereza and Hana helped her to prepare a presentation. They also invitated experts to school and organized Fairtrade presentation connected with tasting the Fairtrade products - cocoa, tea, juice, and cookies. All pupils from Grade 8 and 9 took part and after the presentation some of them started the Fairtrade school club.
2) Fairtrade crosscurriculum lesson with textbook Next Move
In November our team took part in a project for pupils who use textbook Next Move. The task was to choose one of the suggested crosscurriculum topics and do a project. We chose Fairtrade. Here you can see summary of our project activities which were organized during English lesson in Grade 8 and Grade 9 in English and in our Fairtrade club in Czech language.
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Fairtrade club prepared a notice board about this project
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The best English Faitrade presentation made Sára from Grade 9, she did not use many photos but she was able to present the problem in fluent English. Congratulation Sára, we are really proud of you!
3) Searching for the Fairtrade products - club visits Avion shopping center
All club members were looking for Fairtrade products while shopping in October. After this research we visited Avion shopping center where most of the shops selling such products are located. We made interview with the shop assistants to find out how much they know about the meaning of Fairtrade logo and the products. Tereza wrote an article about the visit for her websites. The results of our short survey: We found Fairtrade products in Mark and Spencer, Starbucks, Tchibo, DM drugstore and Hypernova supermarket. All shop assistants claimed that Fairtrade products are more expensive due to their higher quality. Some of them new more about these products, some were more helpful, others were not allowed to talk to us. At the end of our visit we bought a Fairtrade hot chocolate and cookies.
4) Presenting Fairtrade to parents during Open Door Day in January 2015
In January we prepared presentation of our project for parents who visited our school during the Open Door Day. We asked them what they knew about Fairtrade. Some of the knew a lot and enjoyed talking with us. It was not easy to address adults which we did not know personally and present them the ideas of Fairtrade because they were there with their little children and were busy but most of them were very kindly. For this event we prepared a large poster to catch the attention.
5) Videoconference with Mrs. Markéta Nešporová about her Fairtrade clothes shop
In January our team organized a videoconference with Mrs. Markéta Nešporová who visited Fairtrade clothes factory in Bangladéš and witnessed the procedure leading to obtaining Fairtrade logo. Later she opened a Fairtrade cloth shop called Tuk Tuki in Olomouc.
6) Fairtrade in Art lesson
We asked our Art teacher Mrs. Plečka to implement Fairtrade into his subject and he agreed. So in December andJanuary pupils were drawing their suggestions for a leaflat about Fairtrade. The best drawings were displayed in our Gallery on the stairs.
7) International meeting with Erasmus+ participants from 5 countries
In January our school visited 32 students and 10 teachers from Belgium, Bulgaria, Ireland, Italy and Spain. We cooperate on Erasmus+ project called Teaching: An effective key to self-learning. It means that we learn new things by teaching others. Our school prepared a music lesson for all participants and our team used this opportunity and organized a Fairtrade workshop. First we gave a lesson and explain what Fairtrade is on Monday 26 January 2015. We used presentation which prepared for our topical day in November and translated them into English and even improved them. We also asked students to fill in our survey form before and after the presentations so that we could see what we have taught our guests. Michaela informed international students about criterions which must schools fullfil if they want to obtain this title. Then they could taste some Fairtrade products, mostly chocolate and tea. Next we asked them to draw a poster explaining Fairtrade and fair trade ideas. On Thursday we organized exhibition of the posters where all team introduced themselves, showed on the map their country and explained which ideas their poster is representing. Finally we made a video with greetings in our mother tongues and a message about this workshop.
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The final greetings of the Workshop participants you can view here.
You can try to answer our quiz which we gave students before our presentation:
8) Poster about impact of our team on spreading the Fairtrade idea
In February Tereza finished collecting data from her survey and made a statistical poster toghether with Veronika. You can see the results of the survey "What do you know about Fairtrade?", shops selling Fairtrade products in Ostrava-Zábřeh, the number of pupils who were attending our Fairtrade club from Sepember until January and how many people were addressed - classmates, other pupils, parents, teachers, Erasmus+ visitors.