For our topic this term we have been delving deep into Fair Trade and what it's about. Fair trade doesn't support companies that have child labour. Fair Trade helps exporters, for instance if someone provided coffee beans for The Fair Trade Company then Fair Trade gives them a fair amount of money. Sometimes Fair Trade build schools for children who need education, they also provide fresh water and food. For our fair trade topic we have each been assigned to a sack. We had the option if we wanted to be in groups or not, I decided to partner up with Elsie to create a poem. Our stages throughout the process went like this: First we came up with a poem that was meaningful, then we came up with designs for the sacks, our third stage was to edit everything and see if there were any mistakes. Our final stage was to get creating. We laid out pieces of newspaper onto the lino in the corridor because there wasn't enough space in the classroom. We then dipped our cotton buds into the cup with Indian ink and carefully dabbed our way through the sack. The process didn't take that long to complete, but we were still very careful with our work and it turned out looking really good in the end. Overall I think that the fair trade topic was fun, next term for the class topic my suggestion is to either do an art inquiry or a music inquiry where you have to play a song and figure out the meaning behind it, for the art inquiry we could choose an artwork to get inspired by and make our "re-creation" or something that looks similar.
