While the UK was voting for a red landslide at the polls, youngsters at St Gregory’s Catholic Primary in Margate decided to go Green in their own election.
Held as election fever gripped the UK, the school voted the Greens home with Labour coming a close second.
And the school has already pledged to consider ways to be more eco-friendly by thinking about ideas to be net zero, providing more bins to tackle litter and putting forward ideas for ‘eco warriors’ at St Gregory’s to help further develop its sustainability, recycling and environmentally-friendly ethos.
At an assembly about the General Election children discussed democracy as part of the British values and what it meant, looking at the voting system, what it meant and how the election was run.
They also looked at the main parties and their manifestos, going into detail about what each party were putting forward for the country.
Each child in the school voted. They took their ballot papers and added their cross next to the party they wanted to vote for before putting the votes into the ballot box.
The pupil council came together to collect the votes and the winning St Gregory’s vote was declared.
Pupil Council lead and Head of Upper Key Stage 2 Athanasia Papa-Adams said: “It was important for our children to have an understanding of the general election, the parties, their manifestos and have a chance to join in.
“We focus on the British values and link them to lots of our learning so it was crucial to discuss democracy and link this to the election.
“The children were passionate about joining in and having their say and now want to consider their own manifestos for our school by developing some of the ideas that they learnt about.”
