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Friendship Soup. By Saba Rehman

On Wednesday morning we had Mr Robson because Miss Orchant was out at the EuroQuiz2016 with some other children from P6.  What we did with Mr Robson was we had to list down some qualities that a good friend would have but first we had to get in partners. I was partners with Aisha.  Later on we were going to make friendship soup, first when Mr Robson said we were going to friendship soup I thought we were going to make a real pot of soup with the list of words but I was wrong! I was so shocked!  We had to write beside the list of words how much of that you wanted in your soup. For example,  loyalty  =  3 cups,  we could do 3 jugs, gallons, pints depending on how much of the quality you thought a good friend should have. After that we had to copy it neatly on to another piece of paper and draw pictures and colour them in!  I had so much fun I wish we could do something like that again! I learnt that friends often have arguments over small issues they say sorry and get over them quickly.

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Chocolate Coins. By Abi Benshetrit

On Wednesday Miss Orchant put chocolate coins on everyone’s desk and all around the classroom. We were all very suspicious and asked her why, but she said she didn’t know. When we did social studies I saw Pippa eat one and I was shocked because we weren’t told whether we could eat them or not! At this point I was so tempted to eat one and was curious to know the reason for them. Next thing I knew lots of people were eating them and taking them home because they saw Pippa do it. I was walking out the playground with my friend and we started to unwrap ours but then we didn’t eat them because I said I thought it was a test. We came to school the next day, and the coins were still on our desk! At this point, I was eager to find out what they were for. Later on in the day, there were very little coins left. Miss Orchant asked us ‘who ate a chocolate coin?’ it was a test! Miss Orchant’s accomplice was Pippa! She was meant to eat as many as she wanted and try to persuade us to do the same. Our lesson was about drugs and alcohol and to show us how easy it is to be influenced by your peers. I learnt not to be pressured into doing things that I don’t want to do. I thought it was a very interesting lesson and I really enjoyed it.

 

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My Week. By Daniel Dotan

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.