major state ceremonies and was where Queen Elizabeth II lay in state for mourners to show their respects after her death in 2002. The tour guides then showed everyone back to the Parliamentary Education Centre , where the group participated in a workshop about petitions. They were split into four groups of mixed ages and had to solve a puzzle! The puzzles were linked to ideas and laws in Parliament, looking at the different areas of society that Parliament looks at, for example education, transport, health and medicine. The groups then had to create a petition on a cause related to one of these sectors and perform a presentation about their petition to the whole party. The petitions were all very interesting as students had to come up with a problem and then write a petition with a suggested law to solve this issue. One group’s petition was to recommend the law was changed so that there would be no school on Fridays! Sophia S, 7FSM
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