During our PHSE lesson we discussed what was meant by a fair trade.

We began the lesson talking about what fair meant. To begin with the children felt that fair was everybody having the same and sharing things equally.

We discussed the equality in pay for workers. The children all agreed that everybody doing the same job should get paid the same.

We talked about the farmers in the poorer countries needing to be paid fairly for their goods. The children felt it was very unfair for the rich to get richer and not pay the poor what they should be paid.

The children agreed we should use our local shops more to help them stay in business and look for the fair trade logo when buying things like bananas, coffee, chocolate, tea and peanut butter.