To celebrate UK Parliament week, Year 6 had a debate in the Normanhurst Houses of Parliament. The class were given the question of ‘Are the Olympics needed anymore?’. They class elected the Speaker, Ilayda who led the debate.
On the proposing side, for the Olympics to continue the speakers were Bella and William, on the opposing side, against the Olympics continuing, Matteo and Alexandra were the speakers. Using an official planning sheet for the debate, the class wrote facts, arguments and concluding statements to share at the debate. The speaker, Ilayda invited both parties into the Year 6 House of Commons to start the debate.
After many interesting debating statements followed by ‘hear, hears’ and ‘ayes’ the proposers and opposing gave their concluding statements which lead us to the final vote! This showed that the Olympics should…. go ahead! The Year 6 pupils are looking forward to having more debates in class.
