WALT: Contribute to text discussions by building on others’ ideas and comparing different interpretations.
Hello bloggers in this week we have been learning about voting in NZ. Democracy, a class trying to decide a game to lay in lunchtime but only one person votes for the class so it will not make it feel fair. But if everyone gets a turn to vote that is democracy. NZ is a small country with only about 5 million people if they were all in a box making laws and vote it would not feel so big. So they choose a smaller group to represent us this group is called the parliament, the’re called the member of parliament AKA MPS for short. They make very important decisions about: Schools and education, hospitals and health care, roads buses and trains, cars, protecting the environment and our wildlife. Voting is important because it is the way we choose who gets to sit in parliament. In NZ general elections happen every three years. Page 2: In NZ we use a system called MMP for choosing our parliament MMP stands for Mixed Member Proportional: mixed : parliament is made up of two types of MPs (Local MPs and List MPs) Member : the people elected to parliament Proportional : The number of seats a political party will get in parliament matches the proportion (share) of votes they get across the country. Party vote: (choose a POLITICAL PARTY you want to help run the country). Electorate vote : (choose the INDIVIDUAL PERSON you want to represent your area). Page 3: normally there are 120 seats in NZ parliament. Think the word parliament like a large room and a stage with 120 chairs. Political parties try to win as many of those chairs as possible during election! Total seats: 120. Electorate MPS (~72 seats): Won by individual local candidates. To get any seats in parliament, a political party must at least hit one of these targets. To form a government and make laws, a group nees more than half the seats in parliament-that means it must have at least 61 out of 120 seats. Under MMP, it is rare for one single to win 61 seats all by themselves. In NZ, you can vote in a general if you: are 18 years old or older, are a NZ citizen or Permanent resident, have lived in NZ for 1 year or even more continuously at some point. Are enrolled (signed up on the official voting list). Voting places: On election day, people locally go to local voting places like school halls, community centres and churches. Secret ballot: Voters go inside a voting booth with small cardboard screens so nobody else can see who your choosing, voting is private! The voting box: after putting a tick next to their favourite Party and their favourite candidate, voters drop there own ballot paper into an orange box for voting. Counting: when voting ends, election workers carefully count every single paper!
1st create task I did was: should kids vote? This means we have to find a reason why kids should or shouldn’t I did this on my own because I did not recruit anyone to do it with me. I enjoyed it because 10 year olds should vote because they are kids, the hardest part was adding on partner’s thoughts.
2nd create task I did was : create your own party to make our a school a better place! This means you have to use a DLO of any I used Google drawing with my friend Lucas this was fun because Lucas is a good friend. The hard part was the pictures and thoughts we came up with our own ideas.
