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It's , and schools all over the country are taking part in projects to raise awareness about fair trading practice and ethical consumer choice.

I saw an example of a really innovative project at Perth Academy a couple of weeks ago when I visited their PT of English and eminent edublogger, . He introduced me to a group of Advanced Higher Computing students who were making Fairtrade-themed computer games for the younger pupils to use. They were using , which allows you to create your own interactive resources. The idea of including a whole school in Fairtrade fortnight by having the older students guide learning for the rest of the school is inclusive, progressive and perhaps most importantly, fun.

The guys who made the games were keen to tell me how they could easily be used in modern languages too, by simply changing the text in the game. They clearly had also learned something about marketing their product! They were quick to give a lot of the credit for their innovation to their class teacher, Mrs Montgomery, but the skills that they showed in creating these resources were really great to see.

If you're not lucky enough to have some budding games developers amongst your students, there are many ways you can get involved with Fairtrade Fortnight. Perhaps some of our Learning Zone clips might give you a bit of inspiration? (I enjoyed the ethical fashion ones especially!)

A huge thanks too to Val Vannet for her brilliant blogs about Mark Beaumont's American adventure. All her posts can be found under the category 'Cycling the Americas'.