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Philosophy

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When Mr Kettlewell first came in to our class he told us we were going to do philosophy.

Philosophy is thinking about all different things. We do it a little different, we read a story and then we ask Mr Kettlewell questions and he picks the best question and then we debate it.

When we first started out not all of us had a clear idea about what philosophy was. At the start there were a few people that didn’t know that they would really like it, but our first session went very well and I am pretty sure most people enjoyed it.

My favourite part of it is debating about the story we have read.

By Daniel McMahon

 

 

 

Drama

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Hello.

Primary 6 have been doing drama with Mr Kettlewell and it has been really fun. We have been looking at still images, improvisation and have played lots of fun games. One of the games was called creative minds. It is where you have an object in the middle of the circle and somebody needs to make a still image with the object and make it become something else. Mr Kettlewell has been doing a drama club that I go to and I am the only one from my class.

By Rachel Craig

 

Volcanoes

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Volcanoes are openings in the earth’s ground. Volcanoes shoot out lava which is magma but above the ground.

Volcanoes explode because of magma that can not escape out of the ground when the tectonic plates are moving. The magma builds up and makes a magma chamber. It can get to a point where too much magma gathers in the chamber and it can’t hold any more. It causes the explosion.

by Daniel McMahon and Christopher Keith

Natural Disasters

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Volcanoes

Hello everyone, we have been learning about volcanoes and their substances, which is magma and lava.

MAGMA – the lava before it explodes out of the volcano.

LAVA – the hot and deadly molten rock with a fiery red colour which can kill and destroy anything in it’s paths.

We are very excited to be learning more about volcanoes and all of the other Natural Disasters.

By Rachel Gibb 🙂

 

Philosophy and Philosodrama

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Over the past few weeks we have been doing philosophy.

Mr Kettlewell has been taking my class for philosophy and I have been enjoying it. We have to read a text in philosophy but last week Mr Kettlewell got us to act out a scene.

In philosophy we get to say what we think and if we agree or disagree with what the person before us said. Mr Kettlewell has also been taking us for philosodrama which is philosophy and drama mixed together. Last week in philosodrama we discussed if it was right to give money to poor people or not. Some people said that a beggar could be a millionaire in disguise as a poor person.

The first time we got to do philosophy the text was about eating people and we talked about whether it was right or not to eat people. We also talked about survival.

Thank you for reading my blog. I hope to be doing more of philosodrama in the future.

by Amy -Lee Deakin

 

Natural Disasters

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Hello,

Primary 6 have been learning all about Natural Disasters in class. We have been looking into earthquakes, volcanos, floods and droughts. We paid particular attention to flooding and were researching Venice also know as The Drowning City. I am still learning about Natural Disasters and I am thoroughly enjoying it as I get to learn about how the world works.

By Chase Reeves

Dynamic Earth

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In about a week we will be going to Dynamic Earth for our school trip.

We will be looking at what Earth was like millions of years ago. Dynamic Earth is built very close to Arthur’s Seat. A special thanks to Mr Kettlewell, who has made our topic very exciting, sadly he will be leaving in about 2 weeks,. Thank you Mr Kettlewell. We’ll miss you.

Thank you for reading.

By Euan Breen.

Drama

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Over the past few weeks we have been doing drama.  

We have been doing drama with Mr Kettlewell. I have really enjoyed it. We have being creating still images, it has been fun to watch everyone create funny images.

I hope that we will be doing more drama in the future.

by Amy McAdams

Natural Disasters

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In my class we are doing Natural Disasters.

We have been learning about floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and droughts. My favourite so far has been volcanoes because I find it very interesting that when lava is below the ground it is called magma and when it is above the ground it is called lava. Next week we will be going to Dynamic Earth to find out even more about disasters.

Thanks for reading !!!

By Elisha Morrow

 

 

 

Football Tournament

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On the 20th of February we went to Bent Park to play a football tournament. It was brilliant. One of the teams qualified for the next stage and that was our team. We won all of our games and we scored 21 goals. We are looking forward to the finals on Thursday and we will try to our best to win.

By Ben and Connor