Curriculum Map:
Spring Term -Yrs 5/6
Year: 2011
Topic: Fairtrade Fortnight 2011
Knowledge and
Understanding of the
World
Geography Skills
Identifying places and
environments using a variety of
resources
Make decisions about
geographical issues
Geography Activities
Pupils will locate where in the
world India/Africa is.
To empathise with children
working in other countries.
What’s in the news? – look at
some newspapers and prepare
a fact file about current
issues.
ICT Skills
Analysis of information, select
and communicate information
ICT Activities
To produce a fair-trade
leaflet.
Visitors, Trips, Special Events
St David’s Day, World book day, Chocolate tour, Fairtrade X
Factor. Fundraising day
Language, Literacy and
Communication
Welsh Language
Development
English Skills
Cwricwlwm Cymreig
fairtrade
To research symbols of
Wales and to incorporate a
fair-trade message into it to
show our commitment to
making the world fairer.
(linked to Art and Design)
To discuss controversial
issues of fairness with
reference to Welsh History
Opener
A powerpoint and a
range of Fairtrade
goods available in
Britain.
Final Activity
A Fairtade X Factor to
decide on the winning
entry for the
songwriting competition.
Oracy - to discuss issues relating to
Reading-To read and analyse a wide range
of texts discussing fairtrade. To read a
selection of multicultural stories for World
book day relating to Fairtrade
To read for different purposes
Writing -.to empathise with others and
write an account in the 1st person
English Activities
To continue with skills of talk partners,
envoying, snowballing and role play/hot
seating.
To ask questions about a photograph.
To write an account in the 1st person
Maths – Planning a fundraising
activity to hold in school
Maths skills
To develop thinking/questioning
Working with others
Measures and money
Activities
Present a fundraising plan to the class.
Hold the activity
Review the plan
Creative Development
Drama Skills
To develop skills of eye contact,
gesture and improvisation
Drama Activities
To dramatise working conditions and
empathise with children from a
developing country.
Art & Design Skills
Explore, examine and apply techniques
of line tone colour pattern and texture
Art & Design Activities
Use a range of materials to provide
different textures to produce a
design for bunting.
Music
To develop rhythym
An awareness of different music
forms
To perform a piece of music
Music activities
To write words to an existing song/rap
to depict the meaning of Fairtrade. To
take part in a Fairtrade x factor.
Learn the Fairtrade cotton song
Skills/ Learning Objectives
To recognise the Fair Trade symbol.
To understand that some products are Fair Trade
and some are not.
To sort/ match the items.
To discuss issues relating to fair-trade.
To respond to others appropriately
To empathise with others
To write in the 1st person
To design a package to encourage the purchase of
fair-trade products.
Planned activities/ content
Resources
Literacy
Use a prepared powerpoint to discuss what Fair-trade really means.
Use talk activities – information gaps
In groups of 3, look at a photo from a sequence of cotton
production. Look closely and write questions that they would like to
know the answers to.
Can they find the right caption to fit the illustration?
Form a human sequence of cotton production.
Watch a video clip of cotton production.
Sequence the production of cotton in own words
Organise the children into small groups. Provide each group with an
example of packaging from a Fairtrade product. Ask the children to
examine the different examples. Set them a challenge to find:
• An image that grabs their attention
• A word or sentence that makes them want to have this product
• Any facts they can learn about the product
Guided Work
Ask the children
“Who will be reading this packaging?
What will they be looking for to make them buy this product instead
of something like it?”
Discuss any particular images, words or facts that really make an
impression and WHY they make an impact. Record these on the
Interactive Whiteboard so you can refer to them .
Prepared powerpoint
Pair of jeans
A fair-trade t-shirt
A non Fairtrade t-shirt
A set of cotton production
photos/captions
Video clip of cotton production in
India
Fair-trade products with labels
Writing
– write an account of a day in the life of a cotton picker using the 1st
person
- Hand the children a photocopy of the packaging they have been
examining.
Give them time to circle the things on it that they find persuasive.
Ask them to write sentences explaining why, in their personal
opinion, these particular things are important in making them want to
buy the product.
- design a packaging for a chocolate bar.
To research symbols of Wales
To discuss controversial issues of fairness with
reference to Welsh History
Welsh/Cwricwlwm Cymreig(link to St David’s Day)
Find out what symbols represent Wales and why. Use the symbol to
decorate a fair-trade bunting triangle incorporating a message to
show the support of Wales.
Internet
Use a range of materials to provide different
textures to produce a design for bunting
Art/Craft
Using symbols of Wales – decorate a piece of bunting to show the
support you have for Fairtrade.
Bunting
Selection of art/craft materials
To look at Indian art and recreate a Divali pattern or an Indian
animal in Batik
To develop rhythym
An awareness of different music forms
To perform a piece of music
Music
Learn the words to the Fairtrade cotton song and perform in
assembly.
Choose a favourite tune and write words to convey the message of
Fairtrade.
Take part in the Fairtrade x Factor.
Copy of the fair-trade cotton
song
Music to give me joy in my heart
Percussion instruments
Backing music to a favourite tune
Identifying places and environments using a variety
of resources
Following directions, estimating and calculating
distances
Make decisions about geographical issues
Geography
Whole-class activity
Show the photographs of cotton production to the children. Ask
them if they recognise what is being grown? ( link to literacy) Has
anyone been to a place where cotton is grown? Show some cotton
growing locations on a world map. Pupils locate the countries on a
blank world map using 6 figure co-ordinates. What do they notice?
Does anyone know how far away these places are?
Look at the scale on the map and work out how far the journey is
from Wales. (link to Maths)
Introduce the idea of fair trade and how it relates to cotton.
Explain that the trading of cotton is not always fair on
those who grow it. Talk about what ‘fair’ means in this context.
Work for most children: Ask the children to find out as much as
they can about cotton production using ICT.
Bring everyone together and talk about the children’s discoveries.
Chocolate Tour
Visit to the chocolate factory to find out about the production and
the link to Fairtrade.
Mindmap findings
Write letters of thanks
World maps
Atlases
Samples of cotton/pictures of
cotton production
Chocolate factory tour/ risk
assessment.
To develop skills of eye contact, gesture and
improvisation
Drama
Read a selection of multicultural tales linked to India /Africa.
Use the scenario cards in pairs to imagine the situation and
empathise with those involved through peer assessment.
Scenario cards
Multicultural tales
To develop thinking/questioning
Working with others
Measures and money
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Maths
Look at 6 figure coordinates.
Look at scale on maps – draw plans to scale.
Convert money from pounds to pence and vice versa.
Word Problem solving activities associated with fair-trade products.
Set up a fair-trade fundraising activity ( Osams thinking skills –
fundraising module)
Maps
Worksheets
Rulers
Osams resources