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title: "Year 6 English Debate"
url: "https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2024-06-13-year-6-english-debate"
school: "Darwen St James’ C of E Primary Academy"
---

# Year 6 English Debate

  ![](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/news/Yr6_English_.jpg)   13 June 2024

We created a 'line of continuum' to debate whether Mrs Ramsbottom in the poem is a good mother or not.  At one end was 'strongly agree' and at the other was 'strongly disagree'.  We had to justify where we stood with reasons for our choice.  We then used the arguments made in our writing, a short discussion text debating both points of view.![](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/images/Yr6_English_.jpg)

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