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Year 5 Familiarisation Workshop
Miss Palmer sent this report:
‘On Saturday, 2 March 2019, 15 eager Year 5 students joined Miss Palmer for a Business Workshop. With Fair Trade fortnight taking place from 25 February to 10 March this year, this seemed a perfect opportunity for a workshop all about the benefits of this! The workshop focused on the journey of a banana, and how the Fair Trade certification provides more equality for the growers/farmers harvesting the bananas. The workshop finished with a 20-question ‘Fair Trade’ quiz – congratulations to the two girls who each won a bar of chocolate, both achieving scores over 12/20! The highlight of the workshop was definitely the ‘blind chocolate taste test’, whereby each student was given one (or maybe two!) squares of cheap chocolate and two squares of Green and Black’s Fair Trade chocolate. The girls had to guess which one they thought was the Fair Trade chocolate – around half of them managed to distinguish the difference, with some actually preferring the cheaper brand of chocolate!’