This week, we’ve learnt about democracy. We knew a lot about it already – mainly because of our School Council elections (Did you know that we’ve recently rebranded our School Council? They’re now the Junior Leadership Team).
Democracy is a legacy of the Ancient Greeks. In particular, the Athenian people.
We discussed what we already knew, and came up with our own definition (ask your child what democracy is).
First, we found out about Athenian democracy. We were really frustrated to find out that you had to be a citizen of Athens to have a vote; on the face of it, this seems OK. But then we found out that to be a citizen you had to be a male who was born in Athens and had completed one full year in the Athenian army.
In our next lesson, we compared Athenian democracy to British democracy now – ask your child what’s the same? What’s different?
We all agreed that we’re very lucky to live in a country that is so fair – even though we know it could be even better!