We thought you would like to hear about our time at the Provost Debate so we asked Lucy to tell us about her experience.

On Friday the 18th of September as a class we attended The Provost Debate, we got to go to East Renfrewshire Debating Chambers where we got the opportunity to debate in front of The Lord Provost. Our motion was “Should humans take a one way ticket to Mars?”

I was on the against side of this motion with Lauren MacPherson, Nathan Pugh, Samantha Kilbrun, Rachel Canning and Tasleem Islam. Our Leader in this debate was Tasleem and in my opinion I think she was splendid 🙂 !!!

On the for side of this motion there was Sarah McMenemy, Christopher Gallagher, Amy Woodburn, Shaakira Islam, Jay McCormick and Caitlin Daily.  The Leader for the For side was Sarah McMenemey.

From this experience I have learned how to continue using my debating skills, use formal language, write a persuasive argument and put across my point in an argument.

I learned this with the help of my encouraging teacher Miss Ritchie, discussing my ideas with my partner Sarah and working with my group on the against side.

This useful because when I am older if I would like to I could become a Politician and take part in proper debates for my county East Renfrewshire and if  I have moved to a different county I could represent it (but I don’t intend on moving out of East Renfrewshire when I am older). It could also help me in other jobs like teaching-because if my class have to go to something like this I can tell them about my experience and writing/author-if I was to become an author when I am older it would help me when I am older to write better stories.

The skills I have developed from the Provost Debate are to talk out in front of my class or just people, to argue for what I believe and to put my point across in a debate.