Ireland Wood Primary School

Here are the rest of our Global Warming video tips! Please do what you can to save energy - and who knows, you might end up saving a bit of money too!

This year the International School COuncil have been doing some work on Global Warming. We decided to put together a series of mini vlogs to give you advice about all the small things you can do that will make a BIG difference to the world!

Our International School Council helped Leeds DEC to plan this event. On the day, the children enjoyed learning lots about Fairtrade in Leeds. The children were excited to lead a workshop to others schools and had very positive feedback. Their activity was called 'Dice Dilemma'. The International School Council have been selling Fairtrade products in school to raise awareness to our community.

Meetings take place at different schools throughout the cluster each half term.

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The members of the International School Council from Adel, Adel St John, Iveson and Ireland Wood all got together for an activity day. They imagined that they had just started a new school after arriving in the UK as a refugee. The children explored what it would be like not to understand the language, created a drama about their journey, discussed what they would take and even made a temporary home. At the end of the day, we sang 'Everybody belongs' and watched our film 'Leeds welcomes refugees'. Thanks to RTHS for hosting this special day.

The children from ESNW cluster in LS16 made a film to show migrants what a day in school is like. They had a great day working together. Adel, Adel St John, Iveson and Cookridge joined us here at Ireland Wood to film.

Meetings take place at different schools throughout the cluster each half term.

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Children from the Iveson, Holy Trinity and Adel joined together for the first cluster International School Council meeting of the year. They had a great time planning ideas for 2015/16.

Adel Primary hosted the International School Council meeting. The children were so excited to see another school in the cluster. Children from Adel St John, Holy Name, Holy Trinity and Iveson also attended. As well as our regular meeting we were lucky enough to be able to meet Sarah and Cindy from Adel's partner school in South Africa. Thank you Adel for a great afternoon. Please read the minutes.

Aimeth, a banana farmer from Columbia, led a brilliant assembly to launch Fairtrade fortnight. Children from Rawdon Littlemoor, Holy Name and Bramhope joins us for a question and answer session. We also ran a Fairtrade sale after school. To end the week the International School Council attended Leeds' 10th Fairtrade birthday party.

International School Council representatives Kai, Caitlin, Bayleigh and Amelia attended Leeds' 10th Fairtrade birthday party at the Civic Hall. It was a great afternoon with lots of guests including the Lord Mayor and Greg Mullholland MP. Aimeth, a banana farmer from Columbia also attended promoting the campaign to 'STICK WITH FONCHO'. The children led a 'Fairtrade Senses' game where people had to identify different Fairtrade products. This proved a very popular activity. Well done children!

Isobel, Cameron and Joshua were chosen to meet the Lord Mayor of Leeds. They met outside the Civic Hall to help launch a Fairtrade Birthday card competition across Leeds. Have a look at the DEC for more information. http://www.leedsdec.org.uk/

Children from Year 3 and 4 worked hard learning about the 'garment industry'. They workshop was led by with Hannah from Leeds, DEC. The children discovered that lots of items are made in Asia and identified countries on a map. They imagined that they were factory worked and found out about pay and conditions. The children were very reflective and learnt a lot.

Please read more about this exciting award. The children should be very proud of all the excellent international work.

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We all found out how many different languages were spoken in our schools. Ireland Wood found there to be 16! Each International School Council are now working on a display in their own schools.

These children were elected as class representatives. They meet with Miss Lansdowne twice a half term to discuss global issues.

Once a half term, they have a cluster with the International School Councils from Iveson, Cookridge, Holy Name Primary.

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Fairtrade events at Leeds Civic Hall

Kai, Cameron, Bayleigh and Isobel from this year’s Imternational School Council accompanied Miss Lansdowne to the Civic Hall where they took part in a Fairtrade celebration.

They took away lots of ideas to share at school.

The children loved attending the event and even managed to have a look inside the Council Chamber.

Yorkshire has now become the first region in the UK to become a Fairtrade one.

Grace and Bobbi (Y3 Int. Sch. Council representatives) joined Hilary Benn (MP), Greg Mulholland (MP) and the Lord Mayor at another fantastic event at the Civic Hall.

They took part in lots of different activities and even won a competition. They received lots of Fairtrade goodies and tried some of the celebration cake.

For European Day of Languages, we had a French Breakfest! C'etait magnifique!