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© Citizenship Foundation Charity Reg No 801360
Author: M. Heath Date: 28/04/2017
www.gogivers.org
KS1 ELECTION
COMPETITION
Come and stand on our soapbox!
Share your views!
Do you like to choose?
I like to choose which shades to wear.
Which ones suit
me best?
I like to choose which games to
play.
I am partially
sighted so I play
with a football
that has a bell
inside.
In our school we choose the
children who sit on our school
council.
We
choose by
voting.
Soon grown ups will be voting.
On June 8th
they will vote
for their
Member of
Parliament
(MP).
How will they decide how to vote?
They will listen
to what the
candidates
have to say.
They will have different ideas
about how our laws should be
changed and how our taxes should
be spent.
Laws are like
rules. They
help to make
things fair and
keep us safe.
Some of the money grown ups earn
goes to the government as tax.
Taxes pay for
schools, hospitals
and lots of other
things we need.
Voters choose the person whose
ideas they like best…
Abuja
Brown
Oonial
Sandhu
Stewart
Stravinski
…they also think about the policies
of the party they belong to.
Abuja
Brown
Then they put
a cross to
mark their
choice.
Oonial
Sandhu
Stewart
Stravinski
How they vote is secret.
Abuja
This is so that
no one can
make them
vote how they
don’t want to.
Brown
Oonial
Sandhu
Stewart
Stravinski
The Go-Givers think that children
should also have the chance to
share their views.
There are lots of different things
to think about. Here are some
ideas…
Do you think the government
spends enough tax on schools?
If there was more money for schools what
should it be spent on?
• Equipment
• Staff
• Sport
• Buildings
• Clubs
What else?
Do you think the government
spends enough taxes on the
environment?
If there was more money for the
environment what should it be spent on?
• Cleaning up the air
• Planting more trees
• Keeping our rivers clean
• Insulating our homes to save energy
• Saving endangered species
What else?
Do you think the government
spends enough tax on keeping us
safe?
If there was more money for keeping us safe
what should it be spent on?
• More police on the streets
• Watching people who might become
terrorists
• Stopping gun and knife crime
• A bigger army
What else?
Do you think the government
spends enough tax on our health?
If there was more money for keeping us well
what should it be spent on?
• More GPs
• Finding cures for cancer and other
diseases
• Better accident and emergency
departments
• Better pay for nurses
What else?
Do you think the government
spends enough tax on people in
need?
If there was more money for people in
need what should it be spent on?
• Carers to look after the elderly
• More help for child carers
• More support for disabled people
• Mental health
What else?
Do you think the government
spends enough tax on building
homes?
If there was more money for homes what
should it be spent on?
• More council homes
• More starter flats for young people
• More homes for families
• More homes specially adapted for disabled
people
What else?
Out of all these issues which is
the most important to you?
Why not have a vote?!