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Emma explained how there are three tiers of government: our regional council, the Scottish parliament and the UK parliament.\u00a0 The children then discussed the roles and responsibilities of each and how the process works locally and nationally.<\/p>\n
Emma talked about the rights and responsibilities we all have. She encouraged everyone to recognise the contributions we can make for the benefit of ourselves and our society through taking an active role in politics.\u00a0 This links well with our learning about UNICEFs rights of the child; in particular, Article 12 (Respect for Children’s Views), Article 13 (Sharing Thoughts Freely) and Article 15 (Setting Up and Joining Groups).<\/p>\n
Emma shared her experiences of working in politics from an early age. Her interest was first piqued when she became a pupil council member at primary school.\u00a0 We are currently in the process of electing our own new pupil voice<\/em> committee members. Perhaps one of our members will become a future politician too!<\/p>\n We took the opportunity to practice our literacy\u00a0 skills during the session, using the 5 R’s of note taking: Record, Reduce, Recite, Reflect & Review.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The boys and girls asked a range of interesting questions and shared their views freely.\u00a0 It was a very interesting session.\u00a0 Thank you Emma!<\/p>\n # Responsible Citizens<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Politics and democracy were the topic for discussion this afternoon in P5 – 7.\u00a0 Emma Currie, former MYSP kindly visited to give the children an insight to the democratic processes in Scotland and the UK.\u00a0 This is in support of our Social Studies focus this term on Local and National Government. … Continue reading “P5 – 7 Talk Politics”<\/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-8769","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\/8769","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=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8773,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions\/8773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n