{"id":28696,"date":"2025-04-29T13:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/?p=28696"},"modified":"2025-04-29T13:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:54:16","slug":"democracy-p6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/2025\/04\/29\/democracy-p6\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy  P6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our Social Studies context P6 have been investigating the features of an election and the work of our representatives at both a local and national level. They are developing their understanding of how a democracy works and are discussing what the rights and responsibilities of citizens in Scotland are. To assist us with our learning we have been fortunate enough to have a visit from the Scottish Parliament this week with the UK Parliament visiting us in May. We had our own manifestos, elections and\u00a0 of course we had a speaker and Presiding Officer too so everyone came to order!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135014\/IMG_2271.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28697\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135014\/IMG_2271-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135014\/IMG_2271-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135014\/IMG_2271-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135014\/IMG_2271-768x576.jpg 768w, 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href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135145\/IMG_2281-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28706\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135145\/IMG_2281-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135145\/IMG_2281-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135145\/IMG_2281-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135145\/IMG_2281-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135152\/IMG_2282.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28707\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135152\/IMG_2282-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135152\/IMG_2282-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135152\/IMG_2282-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135152\/IMG_2282-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135152\/IMG_2282-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135152\/IMG_2282.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135159\/IMG_2283.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28708\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135159\/IMG_2283-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135159\/IMG_2283-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135159\/IMG_2283-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135159\/IMG_2283-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135159\/IMG_2283-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/eastcalderprimary\/uploads\/sites\/2991\/2025\/04\/29135159\/IMG_2283.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our Social Studies context P6 have been investigating the features of an election and the work of our representatives at both a local and national level. They are developing their understanding of how a democracy works and are discussing what the rights and responsibilities of citizens in Scotland are. To assist us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/2025\/04\/29\/democracy-p6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Democracy  P6&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-connections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28710,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28696\/revisions\/28710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}