After watching a very useful video from Parliament, we have started to understand how our Government works.
We talked about the 650 constituencies and how the local elections effect who is in government and who is the opposition. We also looked at the Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem manifestos and held our own local election for Sheffield Hallam.
Lib Dems won the majority vote in the class!
This afternoon, we played ‘Be an MP for a Week’ which helped us understand what it is like to be an MP, what life is like as an MP and how hard it is to be an MP.
Answering emails, talking to the media and even creating speeches for debates. Everyone started to realise just how demanding being an MP is.