Get your pupils to visit our 'Run a Campaign' section for advice and resources that will really set their campaign alight!
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Step 5: Candidate Campaigns
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- Get campaign teams to visit the ‘Run a Campaign’ section of the website to read about campaigning and policy. Alternatively give them the information in paper version by downloading the Policy and Campaign cue cards below. Here they can find information on the policies of the real political parties. They need to decide on their own policies and then put together a clear manifesto.
Download POLICY.pdf
Download CAMPAIGN.pdf
Download MANIFESTO.pdf - Get each party to design posters, leaflets and rosettes to get their manifesto message out to the electorate.
Download ROSETTE.pdf> - Encourage each campaign team to canvass at lunchtimes to get potential voters to vote for them.
- Organise a hustings event at lunch time so that the candidates can go head to head. Allow each candidate to give a short speech followed by a Q&A session. Be sure to publicise it well beforehand.
Extension Activity:
Contacting real political parties – Where pupils are standing for real political parties why not get them to contact the local party headquarters for information and resources such as campaign materials?
Additional Campaigning - Pupils who want to add real impetus to their campaign could be interviewed for the school newspaper, create a video or start a blog or Facebook group. Get campaign teams to visit different forms during tutor time to campaign for votes.