Parliament Week Challenge 2017

Contents of Parliament Week Pack

Parliament Week was a national UK event but the Challenge pack was from SW Region. The Guides had run up to the week with a combination of activities from Go For It: Be the change! and the Girls Matter publication. On the actual Parliament week we joined with another Guide unit for debates (including a Beyoncé style one) and a House of Commons debate with our local Mayor playing the part of Speaker of the House. Our parties represented our favourite cakes with the Brownie party receiving the least votes but being the first to be eaten after the ballot! We did an open vote and then a secret one with ballot slips.

The challenges received with the Parliament pack (pictured above) were more aimed at brownie age with a colouring sheet and icing big ben biscuits but there was lots of material on the UK Parliament website here http://www.parliament.uk/education/teaching-resources-lesson-plans/school-debating-pack/ including a secondary school resource called "Create the Debate" from which we took our additional activities. A word of caution the 10 page pack is so heavy with colour, that only by switching to grayscale would my printer accept it, but it is well worth the hassle.

You are left with a lovely training resource and guides, and the next night my brownies, really enjoyed squeezing the stress busting big ben - who we added to our toadstool for the night in honour of UK Parliament week!