Secondary Citizenship

Download The Senior Manager's/ Governor's guide here

Download the teacher's guide here with practical ideas about whole school planning, approaches to and delivery of citizenship;
The units below can be adapted by schools to meet the needs of their pupils and to fit in with their citizenship provision;

Year	Unit no.	Unit title
7	1	Introductory unit: Citizenship - what’s it all about?

Units 2 to 9 provide examples of discrete citizenship provision that may be linked with other subjects

Year	Unit no.	Unit title
7-9	2	Crime
7-9	3	Human rights
7-9	4	Britain - a diverse society?
7-9	5	How the law protects animals - a local-to-global study
7-9	6	Government, elections and voting
7-9	7	Local democracy
7-9	8	Leisure and sport in the local community
7-9	9	The significance of the media in society

Units 10 to 13 provide examples of citizenship that may be delivered through other subjects and/or as discrete citizenship provision

Year	Unit no.	Unit title
7-9	10	Citizenship and geography: Debating a global issue
7-9	11	Citizenship and history: Why is it so difficult to keep the peace in the world today?
7-9	12	Citizenship and history: Why did women and some men have to struggle for the vote in Britain? What is the point of voting today?
7-9	13	Citizenship and RE: How do we deal with conflict?

Units 14 to 18 provide examples of citizenship that may be delivered through wider curriculum activities or off-timetable events

Year	Unit no.	Unit title
7-9	14	Developing skills of democratic participation
7-9	15	Crime and safety awareness - a whole-school multi-agency approach
7-9	16	Celebrating human rights - citizenship activities for the whole school
7-9	17	School linking
7-9	18	Developing your school grounds

Year	Unit no.	Unit title
9	19	Review unit: Assessing progress and recognising achievement at the end of key stage 3

Year	Unit no.	Unit title
7-9	20	What's in the public interest?
7-9	21	People and the environment

The Key Stage 4 Citizenship scheme of work consists of 12 exemplar teaching units that can be combined in different ways to address the requirements of the key stage 4 programme of study for citizenship. Some of the ideas in the units may be adapted for use at key stage 3, just as units in the key stage 3 scheme may be adapted for use at key stage 4.

Year	Unit no.	Unit title
10-11	1	Human rights
10-11	2	Crime - young people and car crime
10-11	3	Challenging racism and discrimination
10-11	4	How and why are laws made?
10-11	5	How the economy functions
10-11	6	Business and enterprise
10-11	7	Taking part - planning a community event
10-11	8	Producing the news
10-11	9	Consumer rights and responsibilities
10-11	10	Rights and responsibilities in the world of work
10-11	11	Europe - who decides?
10-11	12	Global issues, local action