Election Day

In preschool we promote British Values on a daily basis. One of the British Values is “Democracy.” As part of promoting this British value we support and encourage the children to make decisions together. We ensure there are regular opportunities for our children to develop enquiring minds and provide an environment and an atmosphere where questions, thoughts and opinions are valued. We hold regular votes in preschool over various things but yesterday as it was Election day, we discussed this in a child friendly way and provided the children with a more visual learning experience of voting. The children needed to decide which book they wanted to vote for us to read at story time. We gave them 2 choices and encouraged them to think about which one they would like to share and why. Then they came to the polling station and cast their vote by placing the relevant card in the ballot box. Whichever story the children voted for they added a cube to a tower for that story. This allowed the children to see the immediate affect their vote had and encouraged thinking and discussions. “My vote made it bigger, we might win now!” When everyone had cast their vote we counted them in and found our winner!