Political Decision-Making

 Hey Readers!

This week in hurumanu 1 we have been learning about Parliament and the steps it takes to the decision making of who the government would become. We watched a video about how it would happen, there are two main votes we do to select a government to be the leader of a party which is : the leader they want and who they want to represent locally. Every three years there is a election to determine who the prime minister of New Zealand would be. 

The steps parliament follows to pass a new law are: a bill ( law draft) is passed to parliament to get a read from the prime minster, next a close party reads the bill and fixes any mistakes, the public also get to read it and change it if needed, after that it gets a second reading, the mps debate the bill and it's the last chance to change the bill, it's read a third time and if it becomes certified by the Clerk of the house it's sent to the governor general for royal signing and to become a New Zealand law. 

In class today we got into groups and had to write down the differences and similarities between the process of the making of New Zealand laws and the treaty. All the groups got a piece of A4 paper to write the similarities and process, my group firstly discussed some ideas then we wrote down our ideas. Once everyone had to finish writing down the information Mr Mitchell asked all the groups about the process of the class treaty we did. There were lots of similarities to the process of New Zealand laws as well. 

The steps we did to make the treaty was... we firstly got into groups  (each table was a group) next all the groups got a piece of paper and had to get a pencil or pen. After that Mr Mitchell told us a Carr value we had to write rules for. The Carr values are: commitment, achievement, resilience and respect. We only needed to write five rules  that related to the Carr value. My group got given the carr value resilience, we all each wrote down at least one or two rules and gave each other ideas. Once all the groups had written down all the rules we passed around each of the groups rules and if needed we changed any words or rules we could. Next Mr Mitchell wrote down all of the rules on a slide show with each slide show being a carr value. The class voted if we approved on the rules. Then Mr Mitchell wrote all the rules on a google doc then printed it out to show a example of what a small version of the treaty would look like. Once Mr Mitchell printed the real version he rubbed tea bags across the paper making it look old as well as ripping some parts of the paper. Then the class all signed the treaty and got a treat which was a chocolate marshmallow egg  because it was almost easter. 

What do you know about Parliament? 

Here is the video we watched: