Lesson 6: Local democracy

Beginning to understand how democracy works in the local area and how decisions are made by councillors.

Learning objective

  • To begin to understand how democracy works in the local area.

Non-statutory guidance

PSHE/RSE

Preparing to play an active role as citizens

‘Pupils should be taught:

g. what democracy is, and about the basic institutions that support it locally and nationally;’

 

See: Department for Education - Citizenship programmes of study: key stages 1 and 2.

 

British values: Democracy

See: Kapow Primary: RSE & PSHE: Personal development, SMSC and British values mapping.

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Download classroom resources

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support

Could work in a group together and be given five of the cards from the Activity: Local issues cards so that there are fewer issues to debate.

 

Pupils working at greater depth

When prioritising spending, challenge them to look at the relationship between different services, for example if libraries close then there could be an impact on education, or if parks are not maintained there might be health problems.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

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