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Students from all year groups were given the chance to vote in their own EU referendum on Thursday 23 June, the same day as the UK vote.
All week students had debated the issues in lesson and tutor time.
The Student Council collected voting slips and 6th Form Citizenship students counted the votes. They also created some of the resources students used to debate the issues in the run up to the vote.
The outcome
Having heard arguments on both sides, students voted 58% in favour of remaining in the EU.
This is in line with the national statistics that demonstrated that most votes to Leave were from the 50+ age group.
Mrs Merrett, Teacher of Modern Foreign Languages who organised the Academy referendum, said
“We felt that we should run this referendum in school, because, whilst our students aren’t old enough to vote, the outcome of the referendum will affect them and it is important that they understand the arguments on both sides. Students have also looked at democracy and British values.”
