Fallon and Ewan Go To Parliament!

June 13, 2025 by Mrs Morrison | 0 comments

As part of both schools ongoing work with The Children’s Parliament – Both Fallon (Kirkcolm) and Ewan (Leswalt) were selected to represent children’s voices and views at the Scottish Government base at Atlantic Quay in Glasgow. Fallon and Ewan and have been doing ongoing work with The Children’s Human Right Defenders. This has meant many video calls and a whole lot of information for them both to absorb and contribute to before presenting their hard work. This culminated in a Residential Trip last week, escorted up by Mrs Baillie herself. They stayed near Edinburgh, and went from the Sunday morning until Tuesday evening. There were 7 children representing the whole of Scotland at this residential – and two of them were ours! Fallon and Ewan did us very proud – they were impeccably behaved, confident and articulate individuals.

Here is Fallon’s account of their days away –

We left Stranraer at 11 am on Sunday morning with Mrs Baillie driving. We stopped for something to eat at Ayr. When we arrived we got straight in to work. We finished off making our butterfly and bat – our “pollinators for change”. I finished in a few minutes so I could go on to the next activity. We made bees and flowers too. I made my quite quickly . Before we had a little break I helped Hamza with his butterfly and Ewan put the final touches on his bat. He added pompoms and pipe cleaners!

We had a half an hour break and we went back to work. Then we decorated our rails. Ewan and I used mainly green and blue ribbon and some fake leaves but we also added a touch of pink bows and the flowers. Then we made our dinner – it was pizza! We went to bed. I shared a room with Kati and Ella, Ewan shared a room with Hamza.

On the second day, we had breakfast as got straight back to work. We worked on our speeches. Ewan and I presented all about climate change. One other group spoke about mental health and another spoke about vapes. We organized who was saying what and practiced for a few hours till we could say our speech with no help and no notes. We said our speeches in front of everyone and Cara said her introduction speech – everyone was very good. Then we did a few more practises until dinner , which was chicken wraps.

On the third and final day we packed up, had breakfast and headed off to Atantic Quay in Glasgow.

When we arrived in Glasgow we got our garden set up (the place where we would be talking to everyone). We organised our rails and plants. We went into a big fancy room and we heard Joe Griffin say his speech. Then we all said our speeches. It went very well and you could tell they where listening as they asked lots of questions.

I really enjoyed my time away.

Fallon