Today in Red 5, we learned about a very important value: Democracy.
What is democracy? Why is it important?
Children created their own parliament to represent a wide variety of views across the political spectrum. They discussed big issues such as taxes, public spending, immigration, transport and foreign policy. They debated these issues with each other and challenged each other courteously.
Here they are debating immigration:
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Name a policy one of the major parties had. How were the parties similar to each other? How were they different? What effect did having more people arguing for one party have?