Politics A Level What is politics What do

Politics A Level • What is politics? • What do you study? • Why is it important? • What will I have to do in this taster session?

What is Politics? • Decision-making for society • Power • The State

Unit 1 - UK Politics (Explain and evaluate) - Democracy & participation - Elections & referendums - Political Parties - The Mass Media

2019 General Election

Picture Quiz 1 • In Politics you will need to refer to the key figures and find out what policies they believe in • How many of the following key figures do you know? – Give yourself a score out of 8! - Don’t worry if you don’t know some of them – that’s what the course is for!

Answers • • 1) Boris Johnson 2) Jeremy Corbyn 3) Jo Swinson 4) Keir Starmer 5) Ed Davey 6) Layla Moran 7) Nigel Farage 8) Caroline Lucas

Unit 2 – UK Government (Explain and evaluate) - The Constitution - Parliament - The Prime Minister & Government - The Judiciary

Picture Quiz 2 • How many of these political places and personalities do you know? • Give yourself a score out of 6

Answers • • • 1) Westminster / Houses of Parliament 2) House of Commons 3) Scottish Assembly (Parliament) 4) Nicola Sturgeon 5) The Cabinet 6) The Supreme Court Judges • All of these points 1 -6 will come up in the course

Political Issues • • • The Economy Education Health Environmental Income & Wealth International • What have been the big political issues in the last year? • See if you can come up with several examples and then look at the following pictures of the big events which will figure in your course.

2 nd Year • Political ideologies • Global Politics

Politics Summer Project • You can find this on the Preparing for Politics A Level page • Choose a political issue to write about – 2 opposing sides • Good starting places to start are: • - Change. org • - The Guardian • - The Independent • Could you complete the hand-out for the first class