Year 3
Parliament week
Last week, Year 3 had a very special parliament week! They had a chance to hold their own mini referendum in school.
We started by learning some facts about parliament and what happens at the palace of Westminster. We event learnt the real name for Big Ben! We wrote about our new facts in little booklets.
We also learnt about the history of Parliament and looked at three important events:
1. The signing of the Magna Carta
2. Guy Fawkes
3. Suffragettes
We then filled in polling cards with our class name and our name. This meant that we could vote. Once we had done this, we found out about the Year 3 referendum. Unfortunately, none of the Year 3 teachers could agree on what to do for half an hour on Friday afternoon. They disagreed so much that the teachers asked the children to vote.
Ms Williams kindly volunteered to run out polling station and took her job very seriously. Before the children were allowed to vote and receive their ballot papers, they had to hand their polling cards to Ms Williams, who crossed checked their names and told them how to vote.
We then had the chance to vote! The children had four options to choose from and ended up having a 30 minute drawing session with this winning 50% of the votes!
On Wednesday, Year 3 took part in 'No Pens Day'. There were lots of discussions about dreams, what dreams are and whether they can teach us anything. An image of a cat watching a girl stuck inside a tank led to lots of great conversation and the sharing of many interesting ideas. We all had a great day!
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