What I have learnt in block three…

• Donald Trump and his plans for America.
• News paper reports and how they have fact, opinion and bias.
• Dictatorship in North Korea leader Kim Jong Un.
• Rights and responsibilities of the child.
• Brexit in the UK.
•  how debates happen.
• How to write a good speech.
• Some people even got to be speakers in our debates (they were very good at shouting )
• We had Calum Kerr come in and tell us about his job and what he does.
• We also had Christine Grahame come in and tell us about what she does and how much she loves animals .

In this block we have learnt about democracy and dictatorships. our favourite part about this topic was writing and expressing our feeling in speeches. We also enjoyed learning about Donald J Trump and what he is doing in America. This is what we learnt about him that people don’t like him because he doesn’t listen to the public and he doesn’t think before he speaks. On Friday Mrs Miller came in and talked to us about her job working for the Scottish parliament. Mrs Miller gave us a clickapad each so that when there was a question we could press a button to answer the question. Also Calum Kerr came in to talk to us about his job as an MP, his favourite was that he gets to go to big company’s like Google and try out new things like virtual reality headsets. Calumt Kerrs least favourite part was that people lie about him and that he’s away from his family a lot of the time. Christine Grahame came in to talk about being a MSP. Her favourite part of her job is that she gets to tell people off in the Scottish parliament. She was a teacher before she was a MSP so she was very good at shouting and telling people off. She was also very passionate about animals she showed us a picture of her cat Mr smoky and she got him from a rescue senter.

In this block we have learnt many things like a dictatorship,democracy and rights.In primary 6a

I have enjoyed debates the most because we got to SHOUT and argue.My group debated about school uniforms should or shouldn’t be banned and banned won.

Mrs Miller,Calum Kerr and Christine Grahame came in to talk about their jobs and it was great fun Calum and Christine are both politicians and Mrs Miller made us all a little debate and Chris Thomson spoke for new things to get in school and he won over all!!!

we have learnt about Kim Jong Un and the life of a dictator and his country. He is very rich and his country is very very poor.He has over one hundred cars and his favourite car is Mercedes.

We did the rights of a child and we all did different mini posters and I did a right of privacy and your responsibility of the right.

BY MARCEL BONY

Calum Kerr was an ordinary boy at school, he didn’t know what he wanted to be when he was older his family have mostly all been teachers but he has made a change he was more than a teacher he was a politician that has made lots of changes, he has made so many things with technology he went over to Google’s HQ and has made different types of things to do with virtual reality.

By Dylan and Ewan

Who is Christine Grahame?

Christine Grahame is a MSP ( Member of Scottish Parliament ) who supports the SNP ( Scottish National Party ) .

What does she do?

She takes in requests from the public of Tweedale and Lauderdale and tries to fix things including a bus shelter that needed to be built and even though it took 3 years , she never gave up.

Why did she come in?

She came in so she could tell us about her job , about democracy and things people like her have to do.

By Arran P and Sam G

We have been learning about rights and responsibilities. If there is a right there is also a responsibility. For example if you have  a decent shelter you have to take care and clean it.

Mrs Miller came to P6B to tell us about the Scottish parliament and what they do there. She told us how important debates are and we had our own debate in class. We learnt about where the Parliament is and it’s history.We also learnt about the different parties and that they have certain seats it was great fun and very interesting.

Thank You Mrs Miller for coming in!

By Hannah and Poppy.

Today on the 6/2/17 Christine Grahame came to our school to tell us about what she does as a MSP. If you do not know what MSP is well, it stands for Member of Scottish Parliament and she is in charge of the train that runs though Scotland and she does animal protection of Scotland .Her favourite bit is to tell people off because she used to be a teacher, so she is very good at telling people off, mostly the bad ones that keep on talking when they’re not supposed to . She also told us about her care over animals and as you can see she really likes them because she got a cat called Mr Smokey from a animal care centre and when she got him he had no hair at all because there were so much fleas on its body that she scratched them off all her hair.

In school we have learnt about dictatorship and about the people for example Adolf Hitler and Kim Jong un . With a dictatorship it is not about the people, it is about one person who rules the country and mostly they are a billionaire and have lots of power and army . If anyone stands in their way the dictator may kill them or punish them and most of the people who live there have very strict rules and most of them don’t have cars and are not allowed to watch western films such as Godzilla and a lot more . In the war Hitler was in charge of Germany and he did not like the Jews even though he was a Jew him self and done really bad things to them, they’re too horrible to tell you about . As you can see you would hate to live in a dictatorship country.

Calum Kerr came to Kingsland today to talk to  us (p6a and p6b). He told us about what his favourite and least favourite things are about being an MP .He likes being the digital rep because he gets to try things like virtual reality goggles and 3d printers and he thinks its fun, he also liked helping others and that makes him happy. He said that its hard being an MP because he has to work Monday to Thursday in London and he only gets to see his family on Friday , Saturday and Sunday. He said that he also gets frustrated and annoyed that people are rude to him and lie about him. When he left university he still didn’t know what he would do, he applied to be a teacher but he didn’t realise that it wasn’t his thing so in 2015 he became a MP and  he is still doing it today.

by Ava and Katie