This week in L&L, we’ve been focusing on one of our British Values – democracy. Democracy means that power is in the hands of the people.
The word democracy comes from Greek:
- dêmos – people
- krátos – power/rule
We’ve learnt about democracy in our country and how this works. The children were really interested in learning about the central and local government and the roles of political parties. We also discussed how we’re involved in democratic decisions at school:
We get to vote for how we use our reward time.
We get to vote for our JLT in school.
At the start of the year we got to vote for the name of our class reward points.
Democracy is important. We spoke about some reasons why…
- Law and order – we have laws that are created by and voted on by MPs we elect. We all have to follow them as they help keep us all safe.
- Freedom of speech – we have the right to say what we think about something as long as we do not say anything hurtful to others.
- Equality – living in a democracy helps us to treat each other fairly and equally.
Help at home: watch this video (https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z76gr2p#zbxddp3) and discuss democracy in the UK.