On Thursday the 20th of May, the Year 6 pupils at Robin Hood Primary became MPs in the making as we discussed issues to do with the Local Government with a lady from The Local Government Yorkshire and Humber Group. We discussed what Local Government was with Farhana as well as listing as many jobs we could think of that are employed by The Local Council.
After working in groups, we came up with jobs like Graphic Design, Administrator Assistant, Refuse Collectors ( Dustbin Men and women), Social Worker and Teacher, which is pretty good considering that there are over 620 possible employment types when working for the Local Council!!!
At the end of the class debate we were all giving a quiz to figure out "How well we knew our Local Government". They were all multiple choice and there were some easier and and some harder questions. Questions like " The local government refers to what?" a) the MPs you vote for at a local election; b) the Local Council or c) the Scottish Parliament? were easy to answer because we had been listening very carefully to what Farhana had to say. Everyone enjoyed the lesson.
Farhana specialises in helping young people understand the importance of Local Government- she has visited many High Schools in the reigon, but we are the very first Primary School she has been to. She said that our responses to her questions we even better than those she sometimes gets at High Schools!!!
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Post writing by the AMAZING and TALENTED Chesachi.
COOL!!!
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