In today’s english lesson we had a hook into our new cycles focus – persuasive writing. For this the children were put into groups and were asked to gather information to either be for plastic straws against paper straws and vice- versa.
They worked well collecting facts and researching articles around this argument on their iPads.
They then stood up and we had a class debate discussing all the facts they have found. Everyone was so confident when speaking and there was some amazing discussions around the topic.
We felt that the arguments for paper straws against plastic straws were more convincing and we all believe that were we can we should use these instead to play a part in saving our beautiful planet.