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Divine Chocolate celebrates its 17th poetry competition with Christian Aid with the theme: ‘How can chocolate change the world?’
Divine Chocolate, the Fairtrade and farmer- owned chocolate company, has launched its 16th annual national Poetry Competition in partnership with Christian Aid. The poetry competition aims to take young people on a voyage of discovery about the world of chocolate, cocoa farmers and Fairtrade, firing their imaginations and encouraging their creativity. The subject for 2019’s competition is ‘How
can chocolate change the world?”. This has been deliberately chosen to encourage entrants to think about the global cocoa industry, from the environmental and social
effects of cocoa farming, to the dominance of large corporations in the chocolate market, as well as the impact of radical social enterprise players like Divine Chocolate. Leading the judging panel is Inua Ellams, an
award winning poet, playwright & founder of the Midnight Run, who says “The theme for 2018’s completion is 'How can chocolate change the world?’, but I want writers to think of chocolate here as a metaphor. What does chocolate mean to you? What does it stand for? Is it a way of saying sorry? Is it a symbol of how the world is connected? Does it point to exploration and underdevelopment? When you give a piece to a friend or loved one, or when a piece is given to you, what does it represent? What does it mean? And how then can what chocolate means change the world? “I am looking forward to reading the
poems, thoughts, conceits and concepts… and encourage you to be as wild, passionate and inventive as possible. When I read your poems, I want to be left with a taste the runs the full gamut of the flavours possible in chocolate: bitter, dark, salty, sweet and everything in between.” Leading the judging for the Welsh language
panel is Casia Wiliam, Children’s Poet Laureate for Wales. As well as cherishing chocolate, the
Inua Ellams
competition encourages young people to develop a greater understanding of where their food comes from, the people behind it and the potential challenges facing our food industry. According to Carolyn Gordon of St Egwin's C of E Middle School in Evesham: “We have
Casia Wiliam (photo by Sioned Birchall)
just started a club called Caring Hearts in school, with the aim of raising awareness of global issues and campaigning for a fairer world. “When the Divine Chocolate Poetry
Competition flyer arrived in school the group were keen to offer other students the opportunity to take part, giving those that enjoy creative writing a challenge, as well as highlighting an important global issue at the same time.” Trading Visions, an education charity set up
by Divine Chocolate, will provide all the necessary resources to help schools take part, including a competition guide, lesson plans, videos and more. The judge’s pick of the best poems in each
category will win a selection of gifts including book tokens and tasty treats from Divine. The closing date for poems in Welsh is 30th
April 2019, and the closing date for poems in English is 14th June 2019.
uwww.divinechocolate.com/poetry
NAHT comments on Get Into Teaching survey
Paul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders’ union NAHT, said: “Teaching is one of the most rewarding careers imaginable, and this survey reflects many of the reasons why it should be attractive to many. Teachers are graduates who have many career choices open to them. They go into teaching with passion, because they care and want to make a difference. But for many the enormous privilege of helping young people learn and grow becomes outweighed by the difficult daily reality of the funding, workload and accountability pressures facing schools. “All these things are related, and all need
addressing if the government is to turn theoretical teachers into an experienced and dedicated workforce. Right now, workload, accountability and insufficient funding is a three-headed dragon that is turning a dream job into a nightmare for many school leaders and their teams. With
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commitment and proper funding that dragon can be slayed. “We have lacked that commitment from
government and therefore teacher recruitment has been a real struggle, and more and more teachers are leaving the profession. A recent NAHT survey showed that 77% of school leaders found recruitment a struggle last year, whilst 67% said members of their staff had left for reasons other than retirement. There is a clearly a disconnect between the attractiveness of teaching as a profession in theory and the reality of the job. “Recently we asked our members what they
felt would most ease the recruitment and retention crisis in schools. 75% said a better work-life balance, 64% said better pay and conditions, and 63% said a less punitive accountability system. A real-terms increase in
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school funding was the top answer, from 82% of respondents. “We know the appetite to enter the profession
exists. Match that with a good work life balance, professional respect and appropriate pay and the rest will fall into place.”
uwww.naht.org.uk
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