Welcome to our first blog post!

On Tuesday 7th October, we had a visit from Mr Clarke from the Scottish Parliament Outreach. He told us facts about the Scottish Parliament and how it happened. He told us things about Devolution. We got to answer questions and vote using a Powervote gadget.

We got into teams and elected a party leader. There were 6 different political parties: Sporty Party, Animal Welfare Party, Save the Earth Party, Computer Party, Music Party and  School Party. We had to create our party manifesto and promises, then the party leaders made a speech in the class. We then voted and the Sporty Party and Animal Welfare Party won!

We then debated about whether schools should be 4 days a week. Kyle was our Presiding Officer. He called out people to speak by saying “I call …..”. He banged his gavel at the end when the motion had passed.

We passed our law deciding that school should only be 4 days a week!

By all of P567