Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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Extracts from Class 3 Campaign Speeches I want egg decorating because it is like art and craft and art is much better than films and films are stupid and you can do what you wnat to do on eggs. You have to have the film the teachers want but in egg decorating you can do what ever you want to do. Julian Wheddon 3T 1 think that we should vote for films because they are interesting, nice, exciting, super funny, scary, wierd and we can enjoy them. Eggs are boring and if you have a egg fight you would stink of egg and Mother will be mad at you and eggs are all sUmy and you would smell rotten and horible and it could drip all down your shirt. Tarfari Outerbridge 3M Vote for egg decorating for it ' s fun and you get to take them home when you ' re finished and you can decorate your rooms and give them to your parents as gifts and put them in Easter baskets and stick them on your parents desks. Films are sometimes boring and egg painting is much more fun than sitting on the floor and waiting till the film is over and I think that egg decorating is fun, colorful, cheerful and bright. J. March Boden 3T I want to vote for films because they make us learn things and they are interesdng because eggs will just break up and movies are funny, exciting, wierd and scary. Eggs can make a terible mess to clean. Steven Leith 3M I vote for egg decorating because it is fun and we have more things to do and films are just like TV and we have TV, well most children have TV. I have never egg decorated before in my Ufe. I ' ve always tried but the paints got messed up thats why I just feel like egg decorating. Christopher Heinicke 3T 1 think we should vote for egg decorating because you can roll them down hills and you can have egg fights, and you can color them and it is fun and you can watch films any time on your video or at the movies. Justin Griffiths 3M 1 vote for films even because it may strain your eyes 1 would rather vote for films, some are pretty weird some are very very good so please vote for films! Because 1 think films are much better and besides they have adventures and Easter bunny rabbits are just fairy tales from the Greeks!! Geovanni Simon 3T 1 would very much like to do egg decorating for a vote besides I like painting better than films because somtimes they are sad. So 1 go for egg painting it is a fun sport as well, and films are weird somtimes and lots of films don ' t have as many bright colours as coloured eggs, what do you say? Stephen Sainsbury 3T Class 2B Voters Describe the Election On friday 4th of February we had an Election day to vote for egg decorating or films. I voted for films. Our election was after the Election to see who was premier and John W. Swan who was alredy premier got still to be premier. On friday after our teacher told us who won. David Charron Today we went in to the hall. I saw a police man and a returning officer. I had to go into the booth to put my name on a card and I had to have it stamped and then I had to put it in a box. Tarik Smith A carefully completed ballot. Supervision at the The papers are sorted and ballot box. counted. The results of democracy in action. Having decorated their eggs the voters enjoy rolling them on the Rectory Lawn. We had a police man at the door he looked at our voters identification cards. We had to show the ballot officer that we had voted, but it was folded. We posted the ballot form and then we went to have recess. David Smith We had an Election Day at our School and I was the first one in. There was a police man and I showed my voters identificatin card to him. There was a stamp man he stamped our ballot forms. Jonathan Cassidy 17

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THE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ELECTION On learning that Cavendish Hall was to be us- ed as a Polling Station on 3rd February, we decided that it would help our children to understand why their school had to be closed for the day (not that they were complaining!) if they could have some first hand experience of the process of election. Voting for officers from the student body seemed inappropriate for such young children, yet we wanted them to feel the results of voting for something which would really affect them. Our plans for the last day of term, traditionally an informal session, were not yet finalised, so it was agreed that they could choose between wat- ching films or decorating hard boiled eggs on this day. The Class 3 boys responded to the idea with enthusiasm, writing election speeches to read to the School at Assembly and painting cam- paign posters which decorated the Hall. At first there appeared to be many more sup- porters for egg decorating than for films, until some staff members began discreet canvass- ing for films which would make a much easier day for the teachers! Public Works agreed to leave the polling booths in place for the morning following the Election Day, and voting procedures were followed as faithfully as possible. We had been given small prints of the boys ' individual photographs for our records, so they made their own Voter ' s Identity Cards without which no-one was allowed to enter the Hall. Our own police kept order outside, while in- side a steward checked identity before the voter was issued a ballot paper, stamped by the Returning Officer, when his name had been crossed off the school list. All these of- ficials were 7 year olds from Class 3. Our children did not have any problem fin- ding the gap in the black curtains which had made it difficult for some adults to get in or out of the polling booths the previous day — they simply ducked underneath. But reaching the shelf on which to mark the paper was quite an effort for the smaller ones. We had made sure that the pencils were on long enough strings for the paper to be marked resting on the floor, but no child chose this alternative, preferring to stand on tiptoe and reach up in a more dignified manner. To test the efficiency of our officials some children were issued with bogus cards using photographs of boys from previous years, and attempted to vote twice. They were all detected and turned away, and even two boys with correct identification were stopped because they were new to the school and their names were not on the typed list. My sym- pathies were with the Parliamentary Registrar as I struggled lo persuade our conscientious Returning Officer that these children really were eligible to vote. After the ballot count I was pleased that only six papers were rejected as improperly marked, showing thai nearly all (he children had understood the inslruclions and marked jusl one X in the square beside their choice. We had put a picture to illustrate each option for those who could not yet read the words Eggs or Films and two of the spoilt papers had an egg carefully drawn in the square instead of an X. The intention was clear enough, but our scrutineers were effi- cient and thorough in their rejection of anything which did not comply with the letter lo the law. The count resulted in 83 votes for Eggs, 64 for Films; not such a walk-over for eggs as had at first appeared likely, but the teachers ' canvassing had not been totally suc- cessful. I believe that this exercise did make it clear to the children how a ballot is organised, although not all appreciated that their parents had been voting for a Government the previous day. One excited five year old, an- nouncing at home that his choice had been successful, enquired, Did you vote for eggs yesterday. Mummy? M.V.H. 16

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THE CHRISTMAS CONCERT If ' in IBs concert was called ) (jijr Old Man Songs. First they sand I his Old Man and then There Was a Crooked Man and then Christmas Is coming and last of all Old Dan Tucker and then the finale. 1 like Old Man Tucker best because I thought it was the f unniest of all their class. Charlie Kempe IS concert. One song was Old McDonald Had A Farm the other song was Jingle Bells and Someone Special and A Smile and the Aken Drum and Mrs. Sampson Had A Class and the last song was we wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year that is all the songs in Class IS. I like we wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year best in IS. Alan Jenkinson 2D ' s play. The Little Fir Tree. The little tree was a Christmas tree. When it was summer the tree said I wish I were a tree like you so birds can come and live with me. Some people came out and chopped down the tree. A child said 1 will take this tree and put it up and have a happy new year and decorate it. The tree was thrown out and decorated for birds. Michael Fahy 18