We elected our new school council this week, having explored how our parliamentary system works in assemblies to understand democracy. We did it slightly differently this year to help the children think about ideas people have rather than if the person was a friend or not. In Class 4 the children wrote manifestos based on some work we hope to use the council for. These were then shared, but anonymously. This worked really well and also enabled children who in the past may not have
wanted to stand up in front of their class, to be involved. Class 3 and 2 followed a similar process and Class 1 also voted for who they thought would do a good job.