School News
Welcome to Kids Voting School News
Thank you to all those teachers who have already registered their classes to participate in Kids Voting.
Registrations close 30 July - it is not too late to join.
This website has useful information to get you started on introducing the purpose of elections and the function of local government. Each registered class is sent a ballot box. This includes a Voting Pack which contains all the information to actually hold a Kids Voting election.
All local body election ballot papers are embargoed until Friday September 17. This includes Kids Voting. The ballot papers will be emailed to you (in pdf format) on 17 September. We therefore suggest that you conduct the actual voting for Kids Voting during the last week of Term 3 (20-24 September). You will therefore need to store the ballot boxes carefully until this time. The votes will need to be counted when you come back after the holidays and the adult local body elections are concluded (Saturday 9 October).
Below you'll find articles from previous years - 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.
Please send in your stories and photos about your Kids Voting 2010 experience - 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