Modern Studies at Knox

Last Friday (June 13th) Youth Parliament held a Fair Trade coffee morning for staff at Knox Academy. They provided Fair Trade Tea, Coffee, Juice and various cakes and fruit which gave staff a chance to sample what Fair Trade products are available at local supermarkets.

 They managed to raise over £50 which they have decided to donate to UNICEF.

 Well done to all those involved!

Members of Youth Parliament sent away their application for Schools Question time today. They have based their questions around the hotly debated topic ‘Attack and Defense’ and chosen some very interesting panalists to debate this topic.

 I wish the group the best of luck - fingers crossed!

 To find out more about BBC Schools Question Time follow the link below

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/schools_question_time/default.stmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/schools_question_time/default.st

Last year in Youth Parliament we ran a incredibly successful Fair Trade Christmas Evening - we had stalls, a Fair Trade Cafe, music and a raffle (remember that huge chocolate cake?!). We managed to raise over £100 which bought us a ‘Lovely Loo’ and safe drinking water for 100 people from Oxfam www.oxfamunwrapped.com. We hope to do the same this year but obviously on a bigger and better 2007 scale!

Additionally the group is hoping to enter School Question Time (which they won last year). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/schools_question_time/default.stm

We are also working on creating our own school newspaper, this will be a really exciting project - watch this space!