✔Say what democracy means — a fair say for everyone, one person one voice.
✔Spot where you already use it — votes, pupil voice, decisions at home.
✔Use your voice for real — our class vote goes to staff this week.
How we'll know it landed
You can explain 'one person, one voice', name a place you use it, and cast a vote that actually counts.
First 60 seconds
Let's get thinking
Democracy sounds like a big word for parliaments — but you used it the last time your class voted on anything. Today we make it real.
💬 Round the room: One word: how does it feel when someone really listens to you?
Spark 1
What democracy means
1. Everyone gets a fair say — one person, one voice.
2. We hear the options before we choose.
3. We accept the result, even when our side loses.
The vote you don't cast still counts — it just counts for whoever did turn up.
Spark 2
Where you already use it
1. Class votes — like choosing our community asset.
2. School council and pupil voice.
3. At home: deciding together what to watch or eat.
The Talk · you do
Everyone plays
Standard: With a partner: agree one thing in school that pupils should get a vote on, and why.
Supported: Point to the picture card of something you'd like a vote on. An adult scribes your why.
Two minutes, then voices: one line per pair — Cold Call decides who speaks first.
Your voiceLUNDY LOOP · VOICE
The class decides — for real
The winning idea from our vote goes to staff this week. Your voice, actually counted.
This is the real thing: voice → decision → action. Watch it happen this week.
Check-out · pass allowed
Where did YOUR voice count today?
Tap a word — or say your own. One each round the room. Passing is always okay.
Evidence slot · pupil & TA run
Prove it
Evidence Captain: ONE photo of today's task — work, not faces (unless consent is filed).
Captain reads, class completes: “Today we used democracy: we voted on ___ and the result was ___.”
TA: file it in the school's evidence system, tag BV + tutor group, tick the tracker.
Launch extension: one pupil writes the 'why it was fair' line under the photo.
Exit ticket
Quick check — no pressure
Q1. Democracy means…
Q2. Your side loses a fair vote. What does a democrat do?
Q3. Where does OUR vote go this week?
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🔒 What you type is never shown on this screen and is not saved on this device. Only staff can open it, on paper, and only they decide what happens next.
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👩🏫 TA Focus — this slide
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🎯 Cold Call
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Roster (one per line — saved on this device, shared with your other lessons):
Saved on this device · clears itself after 14 days
✅ That's the session
You can explain 'one person, one voice', name a place you use it, and cast a vote that actually counts.
Next time: who keeps a vote fair? The Rule of Law.