Task:
For each of the following political parties
National
Labour
Your own choice of party

Find:

1 policy you think is a good policy. Copy and paste the policy. Say why you think it is a good policy.
Deliver future-focused learning by connecting all schools to the managed network of New Zealand schools by the end of 2016. This is a good policy because we would have fast internet with no slowdowns we have Internet that sleeps and wakes again.

1 policy you think is a bad policy. Copy and paste the policy. Say why you think it is a bad policy.
Invest in the future of Christchurch education with the $1.137 billion education renewal open a new Year 1-13 school in Christchurch East by 2017. This is a bad policy for Christchurch because it would be hard for the little kids to survive there plus it would effect the children going through puberty.

1 policy which will affect YOU directly. Copy and paste the policy. Say how this policy will affect you.
Put in place a programme that provides an affordable option, available to all schools, for Year 5-13 students to have access to a portable digital device, in the classroom and at home. This will affect me because if they get elected, each one of us will get a digital device and they might use it to track us maybe.

Find 3 political words or phrases which you don’t know the meaning of. Copy down the sentence and underline the word.
e.g. Review the implementation of the operations grant with a view to increasing it to address equity challenges and outside of school factors that impact on student achievement.



Use any further fiscal headroom to get debt to 20 per cent of GDP debt earlier than 2020.
Clarify the meaning of the word or phrase in this sentence and the meaning of the whole sentence.