Today, we learnt all about the General Election.  We learnt that today, grown ups all around the country will be voting for the person that they want as the next leader of our country.

We learnt that the grown ups have an important decision to make as our leader will decide new rules for us to follow.  We learnt that you are allowed to choose only person to be the leader and you do this by marking your paper with an X.  We thought that this was funny !   We also learnt that you have to be 18 before you vote.  Miss Toner told us that she once had the job of counting the votes. This took her a very long time !

To join in with the spirit of things we decided to hold our own vote today.  We voted on our favourite animal as we are learning about living things.  We had a choice of four: cats, dogs, rabbits and hamsters.  We cast our vote and popped our voting paper in the box.  They will be counted tomorrow.  Mrs Macdonald knows which animal she wants to win ! (cat).  We will let you know the outcome tomorrow when we do our big count and sort.