Welcome to Citizenship Education.

The Curriculum

Key Stage 3

During each year in Citizenship & PHSE your child will learn about the following:

Year 7

Introduction to PHSE & Citizenship
Friendship
Life changes
Identity & culture
Bullying
Personal safety including knife crime
Rules & laws
Young offenders
Drugs Education
Keeping healthy & clean
Who runs the local area?
Who runs the country?
Pressure groups & campaigning
Sex & Relationships Education

They will carry out the following modules/projects:

Identity collage
Anti-bullying campaign
Anti-knife crime campaign
Personal safety posters
Mock election campaign to be leader of a run-down town
Display materials showing the dangers of alcohol & smoking
Keeping healthy posters
Personal safety posters

Year 8

Discrimination, prejudice & stereotyping
Racism
Disability
Elderly people
Children’s rights
United Nations & UNICEF
Child Labour
Fair trade
The Real Game (careers, jobs, money management & life skills)
Drugs Education
Sex & Relationships Education
Personal safety, making the right choices
Active responsible citizen
Being a global citizen
How charities help
Organising a campaign

They will carry out the following modules/projects:

Anti-racism campaign
Poster about disability
Newspaper report to show elderly people can still do amazing things
Children’s rights poster
Report on the work UNICEF does
Campaign against child labour
Fair trade posters to encourage people to swap to fair trade
Job research tasks
Money management tasks
Organising a holiday
Dangers of binge drinking (leaflet)
Cannabis how it can affect you
Saying no to drugs poster
A local, national or global campaign of their choice

Year 9

Criminal laws
Civil laws
Reasons why young people commit crimes
What happens when young offenders get caught
Rights and responsibilities of the police
Youth Offending team
Youth court
Magistrates & Crown court
Young offender’s prison
Rights citizens have if arrested
Drugs Education
Sex & Relationships Education
Organising a successful citizenship campaign (GCSE work)
Money management (GCSE work)
Consumer rights (GCSE work)

They will carry out the following modules/projects:

Analyse crime stories
Explore inside criminal courts
Act as a judge
Looking at life inside a young offenders prison
Poster on rights when arrested
What makes a good police officer
Creating anti-drugs materials
Where to go for consumer advice
How to avoid getting into debt
Campaign action plans

To support your child’s learning you can:

Talk to your child about what they are learning
Discuss their homework with them and help them if necessary
Encourage them to watch the news and discuss local, national & international issues
Debate issues with them
Encourage them to be active citizens

Attainment levels for this subject download here

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Key Stage 4

During Key Stage 4 in GCSE Citizenship your child will learn about the following:

They will carry out the following modules/projects:

Citizenship campaign

Research 20%
Presentation 32%
Evaluation 8%

Unit exam papers based on topics covered during the course
Full mock exam during Year 11
Final exam at the end of Year 11 – 40%

To support your child’s learning you can:

Talk to your child about what they are learning
Discuss their homework with them and help them if necessary
Encourage them to watch the news and discuss local, national & international issues
Debate issues with them
Encourage them to be active citizens
Support them with their Citizenship campaign
Buy an OCR Short Course Citizenship Studies revision guide

Attainment levels for Key Stage 4 here