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Traidcraft School Assembly

1. Chocolate : Can’t Live Without It

An assembly that reflects on our love of chocolate and how that links directly to the lives of poor farmers.  Download Assembly (PDF - 121kb)

2. Breakfast - Most important meal of the day:

Download Assembly (PDF - 64kb)

The Most Important Meal of Day (amended for KS2)

The Most Important Meal of the Day ( amended version in Welsh)

Background Information on Products in the Assembly

An assembly that reflects Martin Luther King’s observation: “ In the morning we drink coffee provided for us a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African. Before we leave for our jobs we’re already indebted to more than half the world”.

3. Coffee Break

An assembly that looks at the life of a boy whose family grow coffee in Mexico and the improvement in his life as a result of Fairtrade:   Download Assembly (PDF - 80kb)

In Your Teaching Pack:


1.Fairtrade Foundation‘s Meet the Fairtrade Mark

An assembly designed to raise awareness Fairtrade and contrast the lives of Fairtrade and non-Fairtrade producers of the popular products tea, coffee and cocoa.

2. Trade & Chocolate

Exposes pupils to the problems faced by producers from poor countries and the benefits from Fairtrade. The FAIRTRADE Mark appears now on over 2000 different retail products.

3. Going Bananas

Contrasts Fairtrade and non-Fairtrade banana growers. Trade & Chocolate and Going Bananas come from a RISC pack All You Need for a Fairtrade Assembly and can be ordered from www.risc.org.uk.

Drama Scripts

Drama – every little helps: a 2 page script for 3 people.

Drama – tick-tock-tick: a 2 page script for 5 people.