This week we began a new area of writing and learnt that a persuasive text is a text which argues a point of view,
to convince the reader to agree with the author. Using strong, clear, emotive language helps the reader to agree with you.

Our motion this week was ‘School Uniform Should be Banned.’ In many countries around the world, it is compulsory for children to
wear a school uniform. The rules can be very precise and schools may even specify what hairstyles pupils can or cannot have. However, there are also many schools around the world who do not require their pupils to wear a school uniform and children are, within
reason, allowed to wear almost anything they like. There are
arguments in support of both perspectives, our class discussed these within their persuasive pieces of writing.

We really enjoyed the start of this new topic as it encouraged us all to share our own beliefs and debate different ideas!