The Year 7/8s have been exploring some of the issues around the upcoming election.

Over the past couple of weeks, the Year 7/8 Hub have been learning about:

• What is an election?
  
• Why do we have elections?

From this, we have used the Spinoff Policy website which has sparked political discussions around many issues like housing, health, and taxes. 

The purpose of this unit is for students to learn to make informed decisions when they are voting. 

At the moment, the Year 7/8 students are planning to write an argument about which political party they would vote for; based on policy.

Here are some examples of some of the planning (please bare in mind these are in draft form:

National has created a policy to create a new criminal offence for people who contaminate rental properties with meth. National would create a new criminal offence of ‘wilful contamination’ to punish people who contaminate rental properties with methamphetamine. I believe, this a good policy for the future because people who contaminate rental properties with drugs deserve to have punishment. Furthermore, the consequence will be bad enough to scare people enough to make them think twice about drugs. Justice is an increasing problem for New Zealand and I strongly think that they need to have harsher punishments. by Brianna

Make doctor and dentist visits free for under 18s. Right now it’s only free for under 14s or 15s. Its is go because if you get all of your doctor and dentist visit from 0 to 18 it will help you when you're older. Lots of young people don’t make their own money so there parents shouldn't have to pay for the visits especially if they don't have lots of money. As well as making doctor and dentist visits free for under 18s another good reason is provide everyone over 55 with one free annually doctor and dentist visits . by James