This week has seen a number of different areas of learning come to a conclusion with particularly exciting endings.

In games lessons within PE, we have been progressing our tag rugby skills. As all our games modules at William Ransom do, we ended this 6 week unit with a competitive class tournament. Rowan class are excellent at doing this now; we are getting more and more used to working in different groups, working together to achieve an outcome and showing great sports’person’ship. Mrs.Herbert and Mr.Howard chose a teachers’ player of the match and the children voted for their ‘players’ player’ after each one of the matches. There was also a runner up and winning team. We are working on resilience, kindness, team work, democracy and tolerance amongst other things – plus it was a lot of fun! Here are photos of our winning players / teams.

This week has also seen the end to our English topic on debates. We have worked very hard on learning all about debates; we have watched junior debates from the House of Commons, looked at a debate structure, have researched different topics, thought of rebuttals and considered persuasive language. Today we closed this unit with a full class debate – and WOW!!!!

We proposed the motion that ‘Homework should be banned at Primary School’. We had a proposing and opposing team, 1st and 2nd teams, floor debate teams and concluding teams, with everyone taking a role. After the debate we showed democracy by voting on the motion.

We were completely blown away by the class – the discussion was intelligent, eloquent, thoughtful and engaging. The children used imaginative persuasive language and thanked previous colleagues / introduced the next speaker brilliantly in a lively and interesting debate. We most definitely have some future public speakers on our hands. We were SO proud of them!