Citizenship at key stage 3    (Year 7-9)

• about a topical issue, problem or event
• to explore the chosen issue and to share ideas and information
• about the significance of the media in society
• about the different ways in which the media covers situations, and the effect this can have on our understanding and opinion of events
• to identify key issues and events

• to identify appropriate questions and possible sources of information
• that understanding contemporary events requires some knowledge of their political, social and economic context
• to appreciate diversity and see events from other people's points of view
• about the different rights and responsibilities involved in the issues and the importance of resolving conflict fairly
• about the importance of the media in society
• to use appropriate reading strategies to gather and synthesise information (NSE)

• about distinguishing fact from opinion
• about the interplay between empirical questions, evidence and scientific explanations
• about the ways in which scientists work today and how they worked in the past, including the roles of experimentation, evidence and creative thought in the development of scientific ideas
• to use talk to hypothesise, speculate and evaluate, conflicting evidence (NSE)

• how to use their scientific knowledge and understanding to explain and interpret observations, measurements/other data and conclusions
• about public policy decisions that are sometimes made in the absence of certainty

• to assess and reflect on their own progress