Today, Portpatrick P4-7 travelled through to join their classmates at Leswalt for a Scottish Parliament Outreach workshop. An Education Officer travelled down from Edinburgh to tell us all about how our system of democracy works in Scotland.
The children used electronic voting equipment to answer multiple choice questions on our Parliament and Democracy. Innes was top for answering the most questions correctly, closely followed by Lachlan in second place.
The boys and girls split into groups to create their own manifestoes on a range of political issues. We had the following issues represented:
- Save The Earth Party,
- Music Party
- School Party
- Sports Party
- Animal Welfare Party
Each group elected a leader and this person presented their manifesto to the class. The children then voted using a traditional ballot system to elect their own ‘MSP’. The Environmental Party was elected to represent us.
The children now have a stronger understanding of how politics function in Scotland and had a great time learning in a practical, interactive way.
