Yesterday we visited Tesco and the Co-op to compare the number of Fairly Traded goods that each shop supplied. We enjoyed searching the aisles looking for the Fair Trade symbol and found a variety of products in each shop. At the end of the afternoon we discovered that although it is a much smaller supermarket the Co-op offered a larger range of Fair Trade goods.

Primary 3 Penfriends from Dhaka, Bangladesh

We have received this photo from International School Dhaka and look forward to reading e mails from our penfriends next week.
R. Whittles

The painting competition

We are painting pictures which show what makes us happy and what we think will make children in Bangladesh happy.

What makes you happy?

Our link with Bangladesh

We have made contact with an International School in Dhaka( ISD), Bangladesh. It is a large, rich school which teaches in English. We have written letters to Year 3 pupils there- to  Fahim, Rafin, Merhab Dhali, Azaan, Zabir, Simran, Maheyra, Rico, Alisa, Merhab Mortin, Aaya, Labib, Shazia, Samiha, Nasibul, Arnab, and Shama. Most of  these children speak English as a second language.  We are now waiting for their replies.

Our link school is quite prestigeous and open to the more affluent  privileged Bangladeshi community but they also support poorer children who have a different experience of school, even  children who have not gone to school before at all. 

ISD is running an Art Competition which will lead to an on-line Art auction to raise money towards sending street children to school. 



 

Glaitness School have entered the Art competition and are painting pictures on

"what happiness means to them" - some of us have decided to create pictures about what happiness might mean to a poor child from the Dhaka slums rather than to ourselves in this country. We have realised how rich we are by comparing our lives with the children in Dhaka.

Our teacher Mrs Whittles  has spent several years teaching in Dhaka city and undersands how privileged we are are and how much  we have here in Orkney compared to many millions of people in the Global South.

Mrs Whittles in Dhaka.

Skara Brae

We had a great time at Skara Brae and the Ring of Brodgar. In the museum at the visitor centre we saw some of the things that people would have used 5000 years ago.

The heather looked lovely and comfortable. Long ago people used it to line their stone beds.

Mudfest

Although we knew that he was very secretive we went up to Muddisdale to look for the Green Man. We hunted high and low but couldn't find him anywhere. We thought about what he might look like and tried to make him.

Archaeology

When Caroline came to visit she brought some of the tools that she uses on digs around the world.

She also showed us copies of some of the things that she has found.