Scottish Parliament Visitor

Flotta and Westray classes took part in a Scottish Parliament Workshop on Wednesday afternoon.  The classes welcomed a visitor from the Scottish Parliament Outreach programme who came to teach us all about how the parliament works.                          

 We took part in some power voting where we had to decide on answers to various questions about the Scottish Parliament.  Then we split into groups which became different political parties.  We had the 'sporty party', the 'school party', the 'music party', the 'computer party', the 'save the earth party' and the 'animal welfare party'.

 We then came up with a manifesto which states the parties promises and the party leader gave a speech.  Once all the speeches had been heard, we then took part in a ballot vote.

 Our presiding officer then took charge of a debate, where we argued the points for and against the motion that there should be an hour of P.E in schools every day.

We all came up with some really good points for and against the motion.  We completed a power vote, which decided the motion would pass!  In a real voting ballot the motion would then need to go to the Queen before it could be put in place.