This week in P7 we have done lots of work on our topic as we are coming closer in our timeline to the present day. As we told you last week we were planning to hold a debate. On Monday we learned lots of information about the Scottish Parliament Debating Chamber and we even made our own model!
On Wednesday we debated the motion: ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?’ This originated from the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum which we have been learning about as part of our Democracy topic. We learned lots of information and reasons why people voted for and against Scottish independence and following our class debate we held a vote. Sydney and Christy were our tellers who counted the votes. They counted 16 NO votes and 7 YES votes so our class voted the same way as the referendum actually resulted in 2014 which we found very interesting.
We then created newspaper reports as if our referendum result was breaking news which was really fun because it made us realise the excitement and really important role of journalists and the media in a referendum which affects so many people. Everyone is really enjoying the Democracy topic and we are learning lots of up to date and relevant information!
Have a great weekend 🙂
