Election

Bonjour,

In the next few days we will be trying something new in our classroom. We will be having a mini-election for the grade 2. Our class will be electing four Ministers for the year. The campaign will last one week and students will vote on October 27th. Tonight, if your child was interested in becoming a Minster, he/she brought home a paper. This is poster that they can make (which are optional). On Tuesday October 27th, each student running a campaign will present their speech (1-2 minutes per candidate). The reasons behind this new initiative are to have students take an active role is decisions and learning, collaborating with peers/teacher and to encourage responsibility. Elected students must be a good role model. My hopes are the students will look out for each other (in a positive way), bring new ideas to make the classroom a better place and also to encourage students to play an active role in school.

Each Minister will be assigned a role (justice, education, environment and technology). It will be the Ministers responsibility to bring discussions from their pairs to the Ministers table.

I will be guiding students through the election and guiding the elected candidates in their role. If you have any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to ask!