… many, many thanks to those members of the community who came along to support our Traidcraft charity event on Friday night.
Watch out for some photos of the event on this blog soon.
Gairloch High School, 7.00pm to 9.00pm, Friday the 20th of November.
On Friday the 20th of November there will be the opportunity to see and buy Traidcraft products in Gairloch High School, multi-purpose hall from 7.00pm to 9.00pm.
All proceeds will go towards the Traidcraft charity. £2 entry for adults, pay at the door – Tea/coffee included. Children/pupils go free!
Informal musical entertainment from pupils.
A great opportunity to look at some different ideas for Christmas presents this year…
Two small groups of S3 and S5/S6 pupils have been involved in the preparation for this event.
Read below what they have worked on so far…
Traidcraft, by Gary & Kim:
Traidcraft was set up as a faith organisation in August 1979. Traidcraft helps people in poor countries like Africa. We are buying Traidcraft food to help raise money for poor people. Traidcraft has lots of foods such as, coffee, different kinds of tea, and healthy snack bars called Geobars. Traidcraft food is expensive but there’s a reason for that, because the people in the poor countries help make the food for us, but don’t always get the right amount of money for it, so we are helping them get the right amount of money. We bought, double chocolate cookies, chocolate selections, instant chocolate drink, fairbrake wafers, divine milk chocolate, chocolate and mixed barriers Geobars, chocolate peanuts and milk chocolate beanies. Kim’s favourite food is the double chocolate cookies and Gary’s favourite food was the chocolate selection.
Sometimes people ask why Fair Trade products are so expensive? Here is some information from Wikipedia on Fair Trade by Max Mckerron:
Fair Trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries and promote sustainability. The movement advocates the payment of a higher price to producers as well as social and environmental standards.
Fair Trade’s strategic intent is to work with marginalized producers and workers in order to help them move towards economic self-sufficiency and stability. It also aims to allow them to become greater stakeholders in their own organisations, as well as play a wider role in international trade.
In 2008, Fair Trade certified sales amounted to approximately US $4.08 billion (€2.9 billion) worldwide, a 22% year-to-year increase.While this represents a tiny fraction of world trade in physical merchandise, fair trade products generally account for 1-20% of all sales in their product categories in Europe and North America. In June 2008, it was estimated that over 7.5 million producers and their families were benefiting from fair trade funded infrastructure, technical assistance and community development projects.
Scottish International Relief collected our backpacks this morning.
Here is a short report on the BackPack for Malawi appeal from one of our pupils:
‘Before the summer holidays S2 were involved with the BackPack appeal. The aim was to fill as many backpacks with stationary, clothes, toys and toothbrushes, etc. We went round some local primary schools telling them about the children in Malawi and what they could do to help them. We put boxes around the school as collection points and we also had a Funday where people payed with items on the list. Once we gathered up all the backpacks and spare times we came to a total of 30 backpacks. The backpacks were collected on the 27th of August 2009. We would like to thanks everyone who donated anything to this appeal.’
by Morven G. MacRae
As we approach the end of the school session it is appropriate to look back at all the ‘Determined to Succeed’ activities that pupils have been involved in. These activities include the following:
November – Our second Charity Fashion Show.
February – S6 business dynamics conference at The Mrytlebank Hotel.
April – S2 event at Slattadale, Loch Maree.
May – S3 enterprise week, our fourth S2 Malawi BackPack Appeal and the S1 Welcome Pack.
June – S4 enterprise week.
Today the S4 pupils went down to Slattadale, by Loch Maree to work with a team from the local Forestry Commission for Scotland.
They had another fun day learning about the habitat there; building a timer with drain pipes and a golf ball, how to make shelters and of course… teamwork!
Looking forward to enterprise weeks again in 2010.
Jim Sutherland
Determined to Succeed co-ordinator
Gairloch High School
‘It’s all about teamwork!’
The Royal Navy & Royal Marines were back again today. They received a big welcome from S4, as well as other pupils and staff who met them in May.
Back to SNH at Kinlochewe again in stunning weather. Our S4 pupils were still a bit tired after their diet of Standard Grade exams. Everyone still had fun helping maintain the footpaths and cut down non-native trees.
S2 started work this week on the annual Malawi BackPack appeal.
Watch this space for further news… lots of new ideas from this year group.
Different venue – same ’sun splitting the sky’ weather. Today a different group stayed at the school to do their First Aid training while the other 21 pupils headed down to the ‘best Scottish Natural Heritage reserve in Scotland’.
My group headed up the Pony Path with Terry to learn about how he looks after this popular path. Easy! He gets local school pupils to carry up heavy tools and then clear it from rubble and silt! Terry showed us all the contrast between the vegetation on the ‘SNH’ side of the strath and the other side. He also explained to us the different types of trees that thrive in the area and why shaded slopes or sunny slopes attract different trees.
After lunch Pete let us lose with more tools, ie. saws and cutters to remove Lodge Pole pine from a special plantation up the Glen Torridon road.
Once again our thanks must go to everyone at the Reserve for making us so welcome at such a beautiful place.
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