School News
Welcome to Kids Voting School News
Below you'll find articles - the majority written by students - about their school's Kids Voting Election, and some of the preparations that took place in the run up to voting day.
If your school was involved in Kids Voting, its not too late to send in your stories and photos - simply email them to info@kidsvoting.org.nz
Mayoral Candidates Get a Grilling
On Wednesday the 10th of October 2007 two candidates Phillippa Barriball and Dal Minogue were kind enough to join us at Thames High School and speak to the year nine students and their teachers about the local election. The read more click here
Locals Rule - Local Rules
Many students in 9Z at Roncalli College in Timaru did not know a lot about the voting process before they started a unit called 'Locals Rule - Local Rules' in their Social Studies Course. The read more click here
Maxwell For Mayor!
Who will be Mayor? Who will be our Councillors? These were the decisions that Year 9 Social Studies students of Western Heights High School in Rotorua had to make on their voting day in October 2007. To read more click here
Voting For Teens
No, it's not the Teen's Choice Awards, its 9RD's own voting day! Even though the legal voting age is 18, we students had the chance to make our voices count...not literally though.
To read more click here
PNGHS Make Their Voices Heard
On the 12th October 2007 our class and all the other year nine classes at Palmerston North Girls High School took part in Kids Voting 2007. Every class had to have an Election Co-ordinator, Electoral Roll Co-ordinator, Polling Clerks, Electoral Officers and a journalist. To read more click here
The Low Down from Taranaki
On the 9th of October 2007 our teacher Mr Knapton told us about kids voting, we were all exited as we had been studying politics and were looking forward to seeing how the voting process worked. To read more click here
Question Time in New Plymouth
The power was in the hands of hundreds of high school children from New Plymouth in October 2007, when they got the chance to grill 19 Mayoral and Councillor candidates as part of their preparation for election day. The read more click here