This week in school we learned a lot but I am going to tell you about two things I found particularly interesting.

First of all we have written 2 diary entries from the point of view of Oliver Twist. The first diary entry was from when Oliver got kicked out the orphanage and sold to a cruel family and then ran away. Part of our Success Criteria was to include feelings and emotions like ‘saddened’ ‘depressed’ ‘nervous’ and ‘shocked’. The second diary entry was about Oliver arriving in London and meeting the Artful Dodger who then took him to meet a man called Fagin.

Although we were to include feelings and emotions in our diary entry, our Success Criteria was to clearly describe a setting. To do this we were to use our five senses.

The other things I am going to tell you about is that we had a lesson about drugs. We learned that not all drugs are things sold illegally like cannabis, heroin and ecstasy. Caffeine is a drug so Coca Cola and coffee are drugs too!

Alcohol is a drug too but some drinks have more alcohol in them than others like Vodka and Raki. Both have more alcohol in them than wine.  Alcohol slows down your reactions and makes you forget things. Drugs can be extremely addictive and so can smoking. If you go into a pharmacy all the medicines are also drugs but these are good for you as long as they are not misused.

Also, since everybody is different, it is not guaranteed that everyone will have the same reaction to drugs. Drugs have different effects on different people, so if somebody survives after taking drugs it is not certain that somebody else will survive.