{"id":38,"date":"2026-09-30T19:55:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p7n2627\/?p=38"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:55:44","slug":"kensukes-kingdom-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p7n2627\/2026\/09\/30\/kensukes-kingdom-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Kensuke\u2019s Kingdom Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both P7 classes came together today to hold a debate about one of the main characters in our novel Kensuke\u2019s Kingdom. Pupils had to justify their opinions, for and against Kensuke leaving a desert island he has lived on for over 40 years. They displayed fantastic listening skills and showed great respect to our presiding officer who lead the debate. At the end we held a vote. The majority of P7 voted in favour of Kensuke leaving the island. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195457\/IMG_5023-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195457\/IMG_5023-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195457\/IMG_5023-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195457\/IMG_5023-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195457\/IMG_5023.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195504\/IMG_5022-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195504\/IMG_5022-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195504\/IMG_5022-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195504\/IMG_5022-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195504\/IMG_5022.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195510\/IMG_5025-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195510\/IMG_5025-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195510\/IMG_5025-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195510\/IMG_5025-rotated.jpeg 945w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195517\/IMG_5024-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195517\/IMG_5024-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195517\/IMG_5024-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195517\/IMG_5024-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p7n2627\/uploads\/sites\/3719\/2026\/09\/30195517\/IMG_5024.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both P7 classes came together today to hold a debate about one of the main characters in our novel Kensuke\u2019s Kingdom. Pupils had to justify their opinions, for and against Kensuke leaving a desert island he has lived on for over 40 years. They displayed fantastic listening skills and showed great respect to our presiding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p7n2627\/2026\/09\/30\/kensukes-kingdom-debate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kensuke\u2019s Kingdom Debate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1031,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p7n2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p7n2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p7n2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p7n2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p7n2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p7n2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p7n2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p7n2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p7n2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p7n2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}