Download S56 induction £100 manifesto

£100 Manifesto
What is the £100 Manifesto?
The school’s budget is £2.8 million
= £3000 per student
39 weeks in school
= £76 a week
I’ve take one of your money for this week
And I’m giving it to you to spend directly
As you think best...
What is the £100 Manifesto?
1. Manifesto = what would you do with £100?
2. Must spend this week
• Groups of 5
• Mixed sex
• 20 minutes to prepare
3. Vote for best manifesto
Why a manifesto?
It’s how we decide who to
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vote for...
who will be in Government for the next 4 years
Government budget is £500 000 000 000
= £8350 each =£160 a week for each of you
Each party writes a manifesto to persuade you
they’ll spend it well
National manifestos- match them?
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Give you money, by taking less tax
Spend more on unemployed / low paid
Spend more on wind-power
Keep separate from other countries
Spend more on schools
Spend more on health
Help businesses
National manifestos- answers
1. Give you money, by taking less tax
2. Spend more on unemployed / low
paid
3. Spend more on wind-power
4. Keep separate from other
countries
5. Spend more on schools
6. Spend more on health
7. Help businesses
Your manifestos??
 No change: put money back into S5 budget!
 tax giveaways eg divide it between all S5: spent on chocolates
 international development eg give to a charity- Teenage Cancer
Research
 welfare- spend on their group / party, or for people who don’t
have something – eg anyone who hasn’t got long hair
 encouragement- spend on prizes for students who win a
competition / participate best in induction / best dressed etc.
 tax giveaways... do a lottery
 invest- use as seed money for a bakesale (go to Cosco, buy £100
worth of cakes, sell at a mark up)
 dictatorship- one person takes it all – eg Blatter!
 Or any idea
How voting will work
 Plan manifesto
 Present to group
 Vote
 Winner from each section will get voted
on by S6s (best to have a video...)
Real world manifestos...
Guess who? Where? When?
• - reduce national insurance
• - 2% of GDP to internat devel
• - tax cuts for business (Cons voters) or poorest
(Lab voters)
• - support for entrepreneurs
• - North Korea
• - pupil premium
Real world manifestos...
Guess who? Where? When?
• Give 0.7% of GDP
• = £12 billion
• To ‘international development’
• = Nepal
Real world manifestos...
Guess who? Where? When?
• Raise a tax on £1 million houses
• Use it to spend on houses for poorer people