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Fairtrade Prizes… Read below for more info.

Dear Schools,

schools logoThis is the first time I’m sending an email to all schools registered on the Fair Trade School Scheme in Wales! So a big hello to you all! I know that some of you get regular emails from your Fair Trade regional workers, so I’ll only email you on special occasions (for example Fairtrade Fortnight), but also so that you now have my email address if you need any support: schools@fairtradewales.com.

Fairtrade Fortnight is fast approaching! We’d like to let you know how you can get involved. This is suitable for schools who haven’t started yet, or for schools who are already a Fairtrade School. If you want to become a Fairtrade School, one of the criteria is to do an event during Fairtrade Fortnight, so here are some ideas. Remember to keep your evidence for your application!

schools go bananasOur theme this year is ‘Go Bananas!’ As you may know, we’re planning to set the world record for eating the most bananas ever (one banana per person to avoid mayhem!). Banana eating can take place any time from 12 noon March 6th – 12 noon March 7th. We’re encouraging schools to take part and order bananas from our Big Yellow Banana Bus Delivery, where a banana producer will be on board to deliver your bananas! If the banana bus isn’t visiting your area, we have ‘Banana Man and his Fairtrade Van’. Yes, we have persuaded a grown man to dress up as a banana for the deliveries! To place an order contact mark@dwyfor.com or call 01758 720 969. We’d also encourage you to contact your LEA. Some LEA’s supply all schools with Fairtrade Bananas regularly! If yours isn’t, the pupils could lobby them to do so! It all counts towards your Fairtrade Status!

We’re also offering some PRIZES!!!!

We’re looking to encourage schools to take part in the banana eating! In order to do so, we’ve come up with some ideas…

No School Uniform Day!

You could hold a Fairtrade Banana ‘no school uniform day’ where children dress in yellow and black for the day, and bring in 25p. ‘No school uniform’ money normally goes to charity, however this time it can go to ‘Trade not Aid!’ By putting their 25p towards a Fairtrade Banana this helps producers in developing countries trade their way out of poverty. Your school can then order bananas and take part in the banana eating world record - but at no cost to the school, as the pupils can pay with the ‘no school uniform’ money.

Fair Trade Wales, Art Attack!

As well as holding a ‘no school uniform’ day, with mass banana eating! We’re looking for a school who is interested in spelling the words ‘Fair Trade Wales’ using pupils on the playing field! We’d then like to invite the press to take a picture and also a Fair Trade Producer to speak to the children and explain the importance of Fair Trade. If you think this is something you can do, then please let us know! 

Banana Wars, Prize

gladiator bananas

We’re also offering the prize of ‘free gladiator battle hire’ to the first school who mails us with an interesting Fairtrade Fortnight idea that you’ll take forward in your school. You can then have the free hire of the gladiator battle blow up bouncy castle and we’ll supply you with two blow up bananas to use (instead of the usual batons). This will be the perfect attraction for any large banana event!

Smaller Events

If you’d like to take part but on a smaller scale you can simply run a Fairtrade Banana Assembly in your school. We have a resource CD containing assemblies, lesson plans and activity ideas. We want people to eat Fairtrade Bananas, but we also want them to know why it’s important to choose Fairtrade. Therefore we’ve providing educational resources to help you in your school. Contact sam@fairtradewales.com for a CD and have a look at our website for a sample of resources:
http://www.fairtradewales.com/schools/resources/493

If you want to take part and are intending to do something smaller for Fairtrade Fortnight, we’re also offering 5 Fairtrade Footballs, and 5 Fairtrade Blow up Bananas to the first 10 schools who email us with the most interesting ‘small idea’ for their school to do during Fairtrade Fortnight!

Please let us know about your Fairtrade Fortnight plans, however big or small!

We love to hear about them, and will be putting a list of all Fairtrade Fortnight activity on our website.

REGISTER ALL EVENTS HERE www.fairtrade.org.uk/gobananas and email us at schools@fairtradewales.com

All the best,

Danielle Johnson
Fair Trade Schools Coordinator in Wales
schools@fairtradewales.com
02920 803 293 / 07734 939 370

P.S As well as brining over a banana producer from Dominica and we also have a craft producer from Zimbabwe who offers talks to schools for around £100. The producer can’t visit all schools but if you’re interested contact us at schools@fairtradewales.com

Gwobrau Masnach Deg... darllenwch isod am ragor o wybodaeth.

Annwyl Ysgolion ,

schools logoDyma’r tro cyntaf i mi anfon e-bost at bob ysgol sydd wedi’u cofrestru ar Gynllun Ysgolion Masnach Deg yng Nghymru! Felly, helo mawr i bob un ohonoch! Mi wn fod rhai ohonoch yn derbyn e-bost yn rheolaidd oddi wrth eich gweithwyr rhanbarthol Masnach Deg, felly, dim ond ar achlysuron arbennig byddaf i’n eich e-bostio (er enghraifft Pythefnos Masnach Deg) ond hefyd dyma fy nghyfeiriad e-bost rhag ofn eich bod angen cefnogaeth: schools@fairtradewales.com

Mae Pythefnos Masnach Deg yn nesáu’n gyflym! Hoffwn roi gwybod i chi sut y gallwch gymryd rhan. Mae’n addas ar gyfer ysgolion nad ydynt wedi dechrau eto, neu i ysgolion sydd eisoes yn Ysgolion Masnach Deg. Os hoffech ddod yn Ysgol Fasnach Deg, un o’r meini prawf yw gwneud digwyddiad yn ystod Pythefnos Masnach Deg, felly dyma ychydig o syniadau... cofiwch gadw’ch tystiolaeth ar gyfer eich cais!

schools go bananasEin thema eleni yw ‘Mynd yn Fananas!’ Fel y gwyddoch hwyrach, rydym yn cynllunio i osod record y byd am fwyta’r mwyaf o fananas erioed (un fanana i bob person rhag codi twrw!). Gellir bwyta’r bananas unrhyw adeg rhwng 12 hanner dydd 6 Mawrth a 12 hanner dydd 7 Mawrth. Rydym yn annog ysgolion i gymryd rhan ac i archebu bananas o’r Bws Dosbarthu Bananas Melyn Mawr, lle bydd cynhyrchydd banana ar y bws i ddosbarthu’ch bananas! Os nad yw’r bws banana’n ymweld â’ch ardal chi, mae gennym ‘Ddyn Banana a’i Fan Masnach Deg’. Ydym, rydym wedi perswadio dyn yn ei oed ac amser i wisgo fel banana i’w dosbarthu! I archebu ffoniwch mark@dwyfor.com neu ffoniwch 01758 720969. Byddwn hefyd yn eich annog i gysylltu gydag eich Awdurdod Addysg Lleol.  Mae rhai Awdurdodau Addysg Lleol yn cyflenwi pob ysgol gyda Bananas Masnach Deg yn rheolaidd!  Os nad yw eich un chi yn gwneud hyn, gall y disgyblion eu lobïo hyd fyddent yn gwrando!  Mae’r oll yn cyfrif tuag at eich statws Masnach Deg!

Rydym hefyd yn cynnig rhai GWOBRAU!!!!

Rydym yn annog ysgolion i gymryd rhan mewn bwyta banana! Er mwyn gwneud hynny, rydym wedi meddwl am ychydig o syniadau...

Diwrnod Dim Gwisg Ysgol!

Gallwch gynnal ‘diwrnod dim gwisg ysgol’ Banana Masnach Deg gyda’r plant yn gwisgo mewn melyn a du am y diwrnod ac yn dod â 25c i’r ysgol. Fel arfer bydd arian ‘Dim gwisg ysgol’ yn mynd at elusen, fodd bynnag y tro yma gallai fynd at ‘Trade not Aid!’ Drwy roi’u 25 ceiniog tuag at Fanana Masnach Deg mae’n helpu cynhyrchwyr mewn gwledydd sy’n datblygu i fasnachu eu ffordd allan o dlodi. Yna, gallai’ch ysgol chi archebu bananas a chymryd rhan yn y record byd bwyta bananas – heb i hynny gostio dim i’r ysgol, gan y bydd y disgyblion yn talu gyda’r arian ‘dim gwisg ysgol’.

Ymosodiad Celf Cymru Masnach Deg!

Yn ogystal â chynnal diwrnod ‘dim gwisg ysgol’ gyda phawb yn bwyta bananas, rydym yn chwilio am ysgol fyddai â diddordeb mewn sillafu’r geiriau ‘Cymru Masnach Deg’ gan ddefnyddio disgyblion ar y cae chwarae! Yna, hoffwn wahodd y wasg i dynnu llun a hefyd cael Cynhyrchydd Masnach Deg i siarad gyda’r plant ac egluro pwysigrwydd Masnach Deg. Os ydych yn meddwl fod hyn yn rhywbeth y gallwch ei wneud, rhowch wybod i ni!

Gwobr Rhyfeloedd Banana

gladiator bananas

Rydym hefyd yn cynnig gwobr o ‘llogi brwydr gladiator am ddim’ i'r ysgol gyntaf sy'n ein he-bostio gyda syniad Pythefnos Masnach Deg diddorol y byddwch yn ei ddefnyddio yn eich ysgol. Gallwch logi, am ddim, gastell neidio chwyth brwydr gladiator a byddwn yn rhoi dwy fanana chwyth i’w defnyddio (yn lle’r pastynau arferol). Bydd yn atyniad perffaith ar gyfer unrhyw ddigwyddiad banana mawr!

Smaller Events

Pe hoffai’ch ysgol cymryd rhan ond gyda digwyddiad llai gallech gynnal Gwasanaeth Banana Masnach Deg yn eich ysgol. Mae gennym adnoddau ar Gryno Ddisg yn cynnwys gwasanaethau, cynlluniau gwersi a syniadau am weithgareddau Rydym eisiau i bobl fwyta Bananas Masnach Deg ond rydym hefyd eisiau i bawb wybod pam mae mor bwysig dewis Masnach Deg. Felly, gallwch gael adnoddau addysgiadol gennym ni i'ch helpu yn eich ysgol. Cysylltwch â sam@fairtradewales.com am CDd ac edrychwch ar ein gwefan am enghraifft o’r adnoddau http://www.fairtradewales.com/schools/resources/493

Pe hoffech gymryd rhan a’ch bod yn bwriadu gwneud rhywbeth llai ar gyfer Pythefnos Masnach Deg, rydym hefyd yn cynnig 5 Pêl-droed Masnach Deg a 5 Banana Chwyth Masnach Deg i’r 10 ysgol gyntaf i’n he-bostio gyda’r ‘syniad bach’ mwyaf diddorol i’w hysgol ei wneud yn ystod Pythefnos Masnach Deg!

Rhowch wybod i ni am eich cynlluniau Pythefnos Masnach Deg, pa mor fach pa mor fawr!

Byddwn wrth ein bodd yn clywed amdanynt a byddwn yn gosod rhestr o bob gweithgaredd Pythefnos Masnach Deg ar ein gwefan.

COFRESTRWCH YR HOLL DDIGWYDDIADAU YMA www.fairtrade.org.uk/gobananas and email us at schools@fairtradewales.com

Pob hwyl,

Danielle Johnson
Cydlynydd Ysgolion Masnach Deg yng Nghymru
schools@fairtradewales.com
02920 803 293 / 07734 939 370

O.N.  Yn ogystal â dod â chynhyrchydd bananas o Dominica, mae gennym hefyd gynhyrchydd crefftau o Zimbabwe sy’n cynnig cynnal sgyrsiau mewn ysgolion am oddeutu £100.  Ni all y cynhyrchydd ymweld â phob ysgol ond os ydych â diddordeb gennych cysylltwch â ni ar schools@fairtradewales.com

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