Today was Referendum Day and Strichen School, was very busy.
Pupils from Primary 6/7 had researched, planned and organised our own Referendum Election. They had drawn up a list of all the voters, had made ballot papers for both the younger and older pupils and had set up an excelent polling station in the GP Room.
At a special assembly they explained to all the pupils how an election is organised and then over the morning took each class in turn for them to experience voting in secret at the polling booths!
They did an excellent job and the end result was a very narrow victory for the YES vote.
in the morning before school the pupils took a great deal of interest in what was going on at The Ritchie Hall. The place was very busy and there were voters, a large group of media people and police officers in attendance.
The Police came over and spoke to the children and explained Mr Salmond, The First Minister, was due very soon to vote. After the classes were in the Pr 6/7 and Pr5/6 clasases went out to observe from the playground.
We were all very surprised when The First Minister on his way away came over to get his photograph taken beside the pupils.
The pupils were viewing so that they could say in years to come that they observed a special moment in the history of Scotland by watching The First Minister leave after casting his vote.
The children were very excited and we are sure they will remember this for along time.