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Citizenship at key stage 3 (Year 7)
Unit 01: Citizenship - what's it all about?
Section 1: What is school like?
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Objectives |
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- to reflect on ways in which they are already citizens, participating in their school and communities
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- Pupils talk in groups, asking each other about their primary school. Which school did they attend? What was it like being a pupil at that school? How were their primary schools different, eg in terms of uniform, school rules, facilities, school grounds, subjects, teachers, sports, food, school council?
- Ask pupils to make a list of different experiences they have had as part of a school community, including how they joined in the life of the class and school, and whether anything made it difficult for them to do so.
- Summarise the main areas of discussion on the board or a flip chart, then ask pupils to talk about and divide the list into positives and negatives. Positives might include teachers they like, interesting work, being on the school council, creating an environmental area, having friends, being able to play football. Negatives might include hard work, being bullied, not being allowed inside when the weather is cold at lunchtime.
- Ask pupils to think about and list things that make school a good place to be, eg fun activities and lessons, being with friends, being able to get on with your work, teamwork. They then agree what actions they could take to make school a better place for everyone, eg through a class council.
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- recognise that they are members of - and citizens within - the school community and that they have already had experiences on which they can build
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Points to note |
- The issues raised in this introductory unit will be revisited in other key stage 3 units in the citizenship scheme of work. The sections in this unit may be covered in any order.
- The school may decide to use a portfolio for citizenship at key stage 3. This could be used to recognise progress and achievement of all pupils through the key stage.
- Pupils may also have a portfolio of work and citizenship experiences from their previous school, to which they can refer.
- Pupils may already have participated in a range of citizenship and decision-making activities, eg through circle time or class and school councils, by acting as playground helpers or befrienders, by taking part in paired reading schemes, by contributing to planning safe routes to school or environmental projects, by taking responsibility at home or in the classroom.
- Link with geography: activities in this section could be linked with unit 1 'Making connections', which looks at the locality of the school.
- The last activity provides an opportunity to discuss class councils and links with work in unit 14 'Developing skills of democratic participation'.
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This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of
activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by
moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
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