Anti-Slavery Day

Anti-Slavery Day is an opportunity to explore the history and continuing reality of slavery, exploitation and forced labour. Learners can examine Scotland’s connections to the transatlantic slave trade, how exploitation can appear in modern supply chains, and the role of rights, ethical choices and collective action in challenging injustice.

How sustainable is your strawberry?

Use the Strawberry Compass rose to find out how sustainable your strawberry is.

Fair fashion

What choices do we make when we buy clothes?

Cocoa Clues Mystery

In this activity, pupils work together to solve the mystery of why Afia can now go to school, using a series of clues. Through the activity they learn about the impacts of Fairtrade on a community in Ghana.

My clothes and me

Love fashion, hate school uniform? What do you know about the clothes you wear?

Who Made my T-Shirt?

Watch the short film ‘Unravelling the Thread’ and find out about the workers involved in the journey of a t-shirt from cotton field to shop.

Global Storyline in the Classroom

Claire Brown from Larbert Village PS explains how the drama-based pedagogy, Global Storylines, motivates and engages learners in real world issues.