Political Visits

At our school we are going to have an election because we have made parties. The party I am in is called The Right Party and our slogan is leading people in the right direction. Four politicians came to our school to talk to us about politics. For the last two weeks we have been visited by Jo Hayes, Duncan Webb, Poto Williams and Nicky Wagner. This is what happened for each visit.

Jo Hayes
We had to take notes every time a different politician came to visit these are some of the notes we took.
She said that you need to write a purpose in a way people will understand you and that make sure that everyone's ideas were being heard. We need to make sure that lots of people will vote for us because they might tell their friends to vote for us. I think these are the most important things that she talked to us about running a campaign. I enjoyed learning about all the different things that we could do to get people to vote for us.

Duncan Webb
Duncan Webb is in Labour and he talked to us about using social media to tell people to vote for us. These are some of the things we heard. He suggested that we could use social media pages such as blogs, Snapchat or Facebook and to communicate with people anyway possible so that most people will know our policies. I think it is very important to show people our policies to try and get them to vote for us.

Poto Williams

Poto Williams is in Labour and is trying to be reelected as the Christchurch East MP. She thinks that we should show our personality to get people to vote for us. We also need to listen to people's complaints about our school to make to sure we have policies that we need because policies are the things that would make people vote for us. We need to convince people there’s something about us that is good. I thought these were the most important points we put down in our groups.

Nicky Wagner                             
Nicky Wagner was the last politician who came to visit our school and she told us that when we make our policies we have to make sure it benefits everyone. She thinks that we need strong reasons for people to vote for us and to make sure that we have a strong plan so if we do get the most vote we know what we are going to do.

Which of them do you think had the best idea on how to get people to vote for us?