{"id":589,"date":"2016-04-28T10:41:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T10:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmichaelsweb\/?p=589"},"modified":"2016-04-28T21:30:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T21:30:39","slug":"voting-day-in-primary-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmichaelsweb\/2016\/04\/28\/voting-day-in-primary-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting Day in Primary 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, we had a special visitor from the Scottish Parliament.\u00a0\u00a0 She came to teach us about the work of the Scottish Parliament, the role of MSP&#8217;s, voting and how it works.<\/p>\n<p>We were put into six groups; Animal Welfare, IT,\u00a0 Music , Save the Earth, Sport and School which became our &#8216;Political Parties&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0 We held a mini Election.\u00a0 First we had to elect a Party Leader, then we had to decide what was important to us and finally we had to present our party promises to the class.\u00a0\u00a0 We listened to what each party had to offer and voted on who we would like to win.\u00a0 After all the votes were counted, the Animal Welfare Party won the election.<\/p>\n<p>It was an exciting day for all of us.\u00a0 We found out things we did not know or had never thought of!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures to show you how fun it was!<\/p>\n<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-589-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\\\/nl\\\/public\\\/stmichaelsweb\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/24966\\\/2016\\\/04\\\/SAM_0820.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;591&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;SAM_0820&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;We had a visitor from the Scottish Parilament&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\\\/nl\\\/public\\\/stmichaelsweb\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/24966\\\/2016\\\/04\\\/SAM_0819.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;590&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;SAM_0819&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;We were using our voting pads to make important decisions&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\\\/nl\\\/public\\\/stmichaelsweb\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/24966\\\/2016\\\/04\\\/SAM_0827.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;592&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;SAM_0827&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;We were the \\u0026#8216;Sports\\u0026#8217; Political Party&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\\\/nl\\\/public\\\/stmichaelsweb\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/24966\\\/2016\\\/04\\\/SAM_0828.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;593&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;SAM_0828&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;We were the \\u0026#8216;Animal Welfare\\u0026#8217; Party&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\\\/nl\\\/public\\\/stmichaelsweb\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/24966\\\/2016\\\/04\\\/SAM_0830.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;594&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;SAM_0830&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;We were the \\u0026#8216;IT\\u0026#8217; Party&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\\\/nl\\\/public\\\/stmichaelsweb\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/24966\\\/2016\\\/04\\\/SAM_0834.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;596&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;SAM_0834&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Here are the Party Leaders&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\\\/nl\\\/public\\\/stmichaelsweb\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/24966\\\/2016\\\/04\\\/SAM_0833.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;595&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;SAM_0833&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Voting time!!&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}]\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, we had a special visitor from the Scottish Parliament.\u00a0\u00a0 She came to teach us about the work of the Scottish Parliament, the role of MSP&#8217;s, voting and how it works. 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