Sir Jonathan North Community College

There was a range of events taking place across Sir Jonathan North Community College during Fairtrade fortnight, including the selling of Fairtrade snacks on the stall, making homemade goodies with Fairtrade ingredients to sell at lunch time, attending a Roots and Shoots Award Ceremony, running Fairtrade Assemblies, hosting Eco Events and delivering lessons on Fairtrade. […]

Congratulations to Naomi Clarke- Myers in 9.5 who successfully applied for a sought-after scholarship ran by the WE charity which only 30 students across the UK are chosen to participate in. Naomi used her experiences gained through the Fairtrade Group as evidence in her application form where she outlined how she has contributed to the […]

During Fairtrade Fortnight SJNCC ran a Citizenship lesson on Fairtrade. This took place for all year 8 students in their Humanities lessons. This was designed to coincide with Fairtrade Fortnight and the theme ‘it’s time to put Fairtrade in your Break!’ This year’s event challenged students to try Fairtrade products on their break time – […]

Miss Hannam and Mrs Ball took three members of the Fair Trade Group to the Roots & Shoots Award on Friday at the Barbican centre in London. The students were invited along to the event to represent the Fair Trade Group as they were winners of a Gold Award for their work in raising awareness […]

At Sir Jonathan North Community College we celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight throughout lessons. Students were informed that sometimes the Fairtrade Group has to persuade people to buy products off of their stall as the prices are higher than some of the food that the canteen sells. The lessons plenary asks students to answer the following question […]

Sir Jonathan North Community College were honoured to host an Eco Event to Overdale Infants, Inglehurt, Marriott, Avenue and Braunstone Frith Primary School. The Fairtrade Group introduced the event and welcomed the different primary schools. They outlined the importance of their school group and the different ways they have raised awareness and funds for the […]

Our day at the Barbican Centre for the Roots & Shoots Award Ceremony 2017: The Fair Trade Group from Sir Jonathan North Community College were invited to attend the annual award ceremony for the Roots & Shoots charity. As they were Gold Award Winners in 2016 they were invited along to display the work that […]

As part of Fairtrade Fortnight, SJNCC are doing everything they can to promote ethical consumerism. The Fair Trade Group created a fun Fairtrade product quiz for our visiting primary school students to take. Have a look below and see which product you are! What Fairtrade product are you?! On a normal day, you wake up […]

Fair Trade Fortnight Assembly The Fair Trade Group presented a powerful speech this week during assembly as part of Fairtrade Fortnight. The students passionately argued the value of Fairtrade products by showing how the Fairtrade Foundation helps support workers’ rights in developing countries and supports justice, children’s rights and women’s rights. They concluded their speech […]

Two members of the Fair Trade Group, Naomi and Shahara, wrote a powerful and thought provoking speech to promote the Fair Trade cause this week. The speech has been shared to all students in tutor time this week and will be read to primary school students when SJNCC hosts the Eco Roadshow event in March. […]