Last Friday 6th Class had an amazing day. After a long time working on our Budget project, we presented our project to the Minister of State Simon Harris! Simon is our local TD and we were delighted to welcome him to our school.
Before we began our project, we learned all about local and national politics. This took a lot of time! We were really proud of of all we learned.
Next, we broke up into groups. We decided that Sadbh should be our Taoiseach and Sam should be our Tánaiste. Then they picked Ministers. Ministers are the people who run different departments. Our Ministers then decided what they wanted the Minister for Finance to spend the State money on. We wrote and recorded our Budget submissions. Here they are!
Leon was the Minister for Finance. He had to sit and listen to the submissions. He then went to work with his Department Officials to decide how to spent the money and he wrote the budget!
On the big day we delivered the Budget in style!
Minister for Finance Leon O’Donoghue delivers the St. Peter’s Budget! from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.
We had a brilliant day. We tweeted all about it!
Thank you so much to @SimonHarrisTD for visiting 6th Class and hearing our #budget15 project! He was a brilliant sport and so nice to us.
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 10, 2014
Simon tweeted too!
Great to engage with 6th class pupils of @StPetersBray on issues of importance to children ahead of Budget 2015. pic.twitter.com/OMg9aqN5GT
— Simon Harris TD (@SimonHarrisTD) October 10, 2014
Leon on the morning of our Budget!
The Minister with his file on the morning of #budgetday! #budget15 #edchatie pic.twitter.com/1jc0yFcQa4
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 10, 2014
The all important #budget15 document! pic.twitter.com/2Ni3Q3YwfO
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 10, 2014
We’re ready for Leon to commend our #budget15 project to the house! Excited to hear what he has to say! pic.twitter.com/JDXAdMLYny
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 10, 2014
We can’t wait to visit Leinster House and see Simon and his colleagues at work!
Next month 6th Class will visit Leinster House and see our politicians at work! We can’t wait! #budget15
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 10, 2014
Here are some more videos from the day! We hope you enjoy them!
Davy, Minister for Sport, Transport and Tourism. from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo.
Christian, The Minister for Public Expenditure! from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo.
We’ll post lots of more video footage next week!
Ps. Thanks to Simon for sending a lovely piece about our school and class to the Wicklow Times!
We're delighted that our #budget15 project featured in the Wicklow Times! From all in 6th Class pic.twitter.com/8XYlEqDblI
— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 16, 2014
5:37 pm on October 17th, 2014
What a brilliant, brilliant blog post. So much information presented in so many different formats. You must have really enjoyed the whole experience of learning about how the Irish government work. Well done 6th class and a round of applause to your teacher.