{"id":2599,"date":"2017-09-20T13:57:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T13:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2017-09-20T13:59:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T13:59:31","slug":"scottish-parliament-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=2599","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Parliament Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, Portpatrick P4-7 travelled through to join their classmates at Leswalt for a Scottish Parliament Outreach workshop.\u00a0 An Education Officer travelled down from Edinburgh to tell us all about how our system of democracy works in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>The children used electronic voting equipment to answer multiple choice questions on our Parliament and Democracy.\u00a0 Innes was top for answering the most questions correctly, closely followed by Lachlan in second place.<\/p>\n<p>The boys and girls split into groups to create their own manifestoes on a range of political issues.\u00a0 We had the following issues represented:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Save The Earth Party,<\/li>\n<li>Music Party<\/li>\n<li>School Party<\/li>\n<li>Sports Party<\/li>\n<li>Animal Welfare Party<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each group elected a leader and this person presented their manifesto to the class.\u00a0 The children then voted using a traditional ballot system to elect their own &#8216;MSP&#8217;.\u00a0 The Environmental Party was elected to represent us.<\/p>\n<p>The children now have a\u00a0stronger understanding of how politics function in Scotland and had a great time learning in a practical, interactive way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Portpatrick P4-7 travelled through to join their classmates at Leswalt for a Scottish Parliament Outreach workshop.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Innes was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=2599\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scottish Parliament Workshop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions\/2611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}