This is Georgia and Fearne working very hard on their number work. They are concentrating and communicating well to support each others learning.
Emma has handmade the girls activity sheets to go alongside their personal next steps. Alfie thought he was missing out so Emma involved him in the activity.
This morning, Chelsea, Chloe and Poppy sat down for the first session of SP Politics Half Hour ran by Tatton from Simple Politics. It was the first trial run for a weekly politics session aimed at Key Stage 2 children and our topic this week was ‘What is Politics?’ We hooked Chelsea’s laptop up to the TV in our snug and sat comfortably as Tatton began a 15 minute structured session. Over 200 people were also tuned in and we could comment in the chat box if we had any opinions or questions.
On his presentation, Tatton asked us three questions, which we had to answer and use our one vote on the poll on the screen. The first question was ‘Which is better: Cats or Dogs?’ Chloe said Cats, Poppy said Dogs and because Chelsea also said Dogs, the majority vote meant we entered Dogs on the poll. Dogs was the winner!
Tatton then asked the ‘Dogs’ voters why they chose dogs. Poppy said ‘because they’re protective’ so Chelsea entered this comment into the chat box. A lot of people also said comments like ‘they’re cute’ and ‘you can walk them’.
Tatton then asked the ‘Cats’ voters why they chose cats. Chloe said she chose cats ‘for the kitten at Grandma Phyllis”. Some of the other people in the chat said because ‘they’re cute’ and ‘you don’t have to walk them’. Tatton pointed out that this opinion is completely valid and depends on the circumstance of the person, for example some of the people in the chat were in colder areas and it was snowing! Who wants to walk a dog in snow, right?
The next question was ‘Which is better: Pizza or Pasta?’ Chloe said Pizza, Poppy said Pasta and again, because Chelsea also said Pasta, the majority vote meant we entered Pasta on the poll. Pizza was the winner! Chloe was a little grumpy because the winner was the option she wanted to pick, but we talked about opinions and how having a different opinion that wins or loses does not mean you are right or wrong. Chelsea explained that because we only had one vote (one laptop) we had to give the majority vote on the poll.
When Tatton asked the ‘Pasta’ voters why they chose Pasta, we typed in the chat box ‘because there are lots of shapes and options.’
Tatton then asked the ‘Pizza’ voters why they chose Pizza and a lot of people in the chat said ‘because there are lots of toppings to choose from’.
So it turns out, majority of people chose their vote based on the variety, but we still all chose differently.
The last question was trickier! It was, ‘Would You Rather: Be Able to Fly or Be Invisible?’ Chloe, Poppy and Chelsea all agreed on Flying. So the majority vote was put into the poll and flying was the winner!
When Tatton asked the ‘Fly’ voters why they chose to Fly, the group had lots of ideas! Chloe said ‘to go up into the sky, and you can still be invisible in the clouds’ and Poppy said ‘because if you were invisible your parents wouldn’t be able to see you, but if you fly down to the ground they can still see you.’ Other people put in the chat that you could ‘go on holidays’ and ‘flying would be quicker’.
When Tatton asked the ‘Invisible’ voters why they chose to be Invisible one person put in the chat ‘you wouldn’t need money’ which is an interesting thought!
The second half of the session was Questions Time. This was where the chat box got very busy! Tatton answered a number of questions like ‘when can I vote?’ for the UK the answer is 18 years old; and what’s the difference between a Prime Minister and a President, which was ‘countries that have a monarchy (which is a king or a queen) have a Prime Minister to make political decisions, and countries without a king or a queen have a President as the leader.’ This sparked a question from Chloe, ‘do we have a king or a queen?’ and Chelsea explained that we do have a queen and that monarchies are a lineage, meaning the sons or daughters become the next king or queen and that they aren’t chosen by the people.
During the last few questions, we managed to ask ‘What is next session’s topic?’ which Tatton replied would be about ‘Prioritising’, he said ‘there won’t just be two options, there will be some bunnies thrown in there’. We’re super excited to learn more about how to prioritise situations next week and will report back on what we find out!
You can watch the playback of this morning’s session on YouTube here and the link to join next week’s free online session is available here.
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