Mount Isa got a glimpse of its future municipal leaders on Thursday.
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Year 4 students at St Joseph's Catholic School Mount Isa were at Council chambers to elect their "mayor" all under the watchful eye of actual mayor Danielle Slade, just in case the children were eyeing off her mayoral robes.
St Joey's year 4 teacher Lisa McCulloch said the exercise began in their English unit where they were looking at persuasive texts.
"We are looking and how we express our opinions and students are looking at local government as well," Ms McCulloch said.
"Students are working hard on a persuasive text as to why they should be the mayor of Mount Isa in class."
Ms McCulloch said after they made their presentation they had a voting activity at school.
"They got to vote on which classmate they thought should by mayor," she said.
"We have some top candidates who will come and present at the council chambers today as to why they think they should be mayor for the day.
"Because our current mayor (Cr Slade) is one of our mums and we also have lots of other mums who work at council as well, it is a great opportunity to see what they do for a living."
Cr Slade said the plan was to elect a new mayor and then have a "council meeting" in chambers.
"Then we'll do a tour as well, so hopefully we'll get some new leaders out of this," she said.
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