North Tyneside elect a ‘Young Mayor’ every year and this year Burnside were lucky enough to have two candidates in the running: Bailey Askwith and Harris Auchterlonie in Year 9 Unfortunately neither actually won the election but Bailey Askwith was successful in becoming deputy Young Mayor.
The young mayor can benefit the future of many students job careers across the country. Becoming a young mayor will give you a good reputation for when young adults go for a job interview. With the young mayor vote just finishing we decided to dig deeper into what you need to do to become successful in the young mayor event.
We interviewed successful Deputy Mayor, Bailey Askwith in Year 9, to see what he thinks about his position as deputy young mayor. When we asked him why he wanted to take part in the event he replied ‘When I saw the opportunity to try and get involved with the community I wanted to try and help the community and our school.’ A smiling and relaxed Bailey added ‘before now I did not want a job in politics, but I am now interested in a role in politics. I want to help improve all schools all around North Tyneside.’
Staff and pupils alike at Burnside are thrilled of what Bailey and Harris have achieved, nobody more so than proud Year 9 Progress Leader Mr Morgan. ‘I am delighted that Bailey was voted in as Deputy Young Mayor. An honourable mention must also be given to Harris who made it through the preliminary voting stages. It meant we had two Burnside students in the final four candidates. Next year I would support either Bailey or Harris running again.’
But what about next year? What if future Burnside pupils want to run for mayor? What advice would Bailey give? He told us, ‘When taking a position as young mayor you need to use skills such as teamwork to decide on the best ideas for what people want. That’s the key skill as well as creativity.’
By Jack, Sam, Murray and Kyle.
