Section outline


  • Collapsed timetable political party time Week 10 and Week 1 - election THURSDAY Week 1

    Collapsed timetable activity

    • Students will be given a Political party Challenge Brief. 

    • They will have just under 2x weeks to complete the challenges on the brief.

    • Students in Week 10 - will have collapsed timetable time to be together as a political party, to make decisions, assign tasks/jobs and check progress.

    • Will set up a spreadsheet to track the parties and the progress

    • Students will then used the other sessions to work on their assigned task

    • We will reassess the collapsed timetable needs for week 1 at the end of Week 10


    Challenge Brief

    • Create a party name

    • Appoint a Party Leader

    • Write a brief Party manifesto - what does your party stand for?

    • Leader writes and films an introductory speech

    • Create a logo, slogan and select a theme song

    • Create an campaign that includes - posters, memes, short video slips, tweets, social media posts

    • Write policy statements for Environment (Yr 9), Tourism Industry crisis  & the border (Yr 7), Referendums (Yr 10), a whanau issue of your choice (Yr 8), End of year whanau trip (collectively)


    All students will then be able to Vote for their preferred Whanau Political Party on Thursday Week 1 Term 4. Each party has 16 members.