This week in P7 we have been focusing a lot on Health and Wellbeing. We started the daily mile on Monday and already almost everyone is able to complete the mile in 15 minutes which is the maximum time limit. All children are eager to get involved and we have lots of fun doing it. Already we are seeing an increase in children’s focus and activity levels throughout the day.
Our topic (Democracy) links well to Health and Wellbeing due to the current political agendas in Scotland. As you know we held a class debate on the sugar tax a few weeks ago but this week we extended this by looking at the media and advertising. Children researched some popular food adverts which aim to capture the attention of young people and we discussed the question: Is it fair that the media create adverts which are aimed at children when children don’t always have the skills and understanding of food and health to make decisions for themselves?
This is something which we will do more work on in the coming weeks as we would like to brush up on our debating skills so watch out for some more information. There are definitely some budding politicians in our P7 children!
Have a great weekend!
I know that you will certainly enjoy your debating in class, I’m delighted to hear about all the research you have been completing in relation to this.
It’s also great to read that you have all been working hard on the daily mile!
Miss S