As part of our fantastic Greek Day, the whole of year 3 took part in a Greek dancing workshop led by Mrs Bird and Mrs Townson!
All the children worked extremely hard to learn some Greek moves, stepping in time and using lots of energy! We had to work co-operatively to stay in time as one of the key aspects of Greek dancing is moving in unison as a team! We showed real effort, determination and co-operation and many of us earned house points for our contributions!
Here is a snippet of our brilliant dancing!
Our group have been busy for the last week preparing for our debate today. The question we were debating was: "Should Britain remain in the EU or leave the EU?"
We met last week to share our initial ideas and to begin our research. Today, we divided into teams, appointed primary and secondary speakers and a chair and then developed our arguments and counter arguments. Although both sides of our debate made some thoughtful and persuasive points, the 'Remain' team won today with a vote of 13 against 7.
Today, a group of fifteen Year 5 and 6 children from Bannockburn collaborated with 15 pupils from Alexander McLeod Primary School to prepare for and hold a debate. The question we considered was 'Should children be allowed to vote?'.
We used newspaper articles, blog posts and our own experiences to identify points to support and oppose the debate question. We began our day with a working breakfast of hot chocolate, brioche and fruit while we got to know each other, before putting together our research and sharing our ideas. We nominated key speakers and prepared and rehearsed our arguments in the morning and enjoyed sharing a lunchtime together.
In the afternoon, the Key Stage 2 Bannockburn Debate Pupil Partnerships group came to watch our debate, along with Mrs Seeranj and Mr Clarke (our judging panel). We were so impressed by the thoroughness of everyone's research and how respectfully everyone communicated their ideas- we had a brilliant day!
We want to say a huge thanks to our new friends at Alexander McLeod Primary School- we had a fantastic day working with you and we are already working on a new project for us to collaborate in the future!
