✔Say why rules exist — to keep things fair and everyone safe.
✔Tell a fair rule from an unfair one — fair rules apply to everyone, including the people in charge.
✔Connect it to our room — our code is our rule of law in miniature.
How we'll know it landed
You can explain why the same rules apply to everyone, and name one rule that protects you.
First 60 seconds
Let's get thinking
Rules can feel like they're just there to stop you. The rule of law flips that: rules that apply to *everyone* — including staff, including the government — are what keep things fair.
💬 Round the room: Thumb check: rules — mostly helpful, or mostly annoying?
Spark 1
What the rule of law means
1. Rules and laws keep things fair and safe — for everyone.
2. The same rules apply to everyone, staff included.
3. Fair consequence, then a fresh start.
The test isn't whether a rule is strict. It's whether it stays the same when the person changes.
Spark 2
Rules that protect YOU
1. Workshop rules protect your hands.
2. Online rules protect your privacy.
3. Road rules protect your journey home.
The Talk · you do
Everyone plays
Standard: With a partner: pick the one rule you'd keep above all others, and defend it in one sentence.
Supported: Choose the rule picture that keeps you safest. An adult scribes your because.
Two minutes, then voices: one line per pair — Cold Call decides who speaks first.
Your voiceLUNDY LOOP · VOICE
Our class charter line
Together we write ONE new line for our class charter — and it goes on the wall this week.
This is the real thing: voice → decision → action. Watch it happen this week.
Check-out · pass allowed
Name one rule that protected you or someone else 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 found that the rule ___ protects ___.”
TA: file it in the school's evidence system, tag BV + tutor group, tick the tracker.
Launch extension: a pupil signs the new charter line as its author.
Exit ticket
Quick check — no pressure
Q1. The rule of law means…
Q2. A rule is most likely FAIR when…
Q3. Who keeps a class vote fair?
Nothing added yet.
🔒 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.
If you need someone tonight: any adult here, or your form tutor tomorrow morning — outside school, Childline 0800 1111 is free, any time, and doesn't show on the bill.
👩🏫 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 why the same rules apply to everyone, and name one rule that protects you.
Next time: rules end where YOUR choices begin — Individual Liberty.