Standards Site

 
 
Citizenship scheme of work (link to citizenship introduction)
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Introduction * Downloads
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Exemplar Units * Teacher's Guide
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Subject Leaflets* Booklet of ideas
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Senior Managers' Guide * Links to external sites
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Schemes of work: Citizenship at key stage 3

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Links

Many of the printed and downloadable versions of the exemplar units contain links to websites outside the Standards site. As these links may change over time, we have decided to use this site as a reference point so they can be easily updated in case any should alter in the future.

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10 Downing Street
Action Aid
Alertnet (news service funded by Reuters)
Amnesty International
Anti-Slavery International
Assessment for learning
BBC
BBC (including information on election results)
BBC Sports news
Brazilian Embassy
British Sports Trust
British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
British Youth Council
BritKid
Centre for Alternative Technology
Channel 4 Black & Asian History Map
Charter88 (information on democracy and elections)
Child Rights Information Network
Childline
Children's Express online newspaper
Christian Aid
Citizens Online Democracy
Citizenship Foundation
Commission for Racial Equality
Commonwealth Institute
Commonwealth Institute (Education section)
Community Legal Service
Community Service Volunteers' online database of voluntary organisations
Compassion in World Farming
Contemporary History Weekly
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Countryside Alliance (information on rural issues)
Coventry Cathedral
Criminal Justice System Online
"Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs provides information on animal health and welfare"
Department for International Development
DfES (information about progress file)
Disability Rights Commission
Disasters Emergency Committee
Education for Sustainable Development
Electoral Reform Society
European Parliament
Friends of the Earth
"Global dimension, The (Development Education Association)"
Governments on the WWW
GreenNet has information on a range of political and environmental organisations
Greenpeace
Hansard society (information on developing mock elections)
Health and Safety Executive
Holocaust Memorial Day
Home Office
Howard League for Penal Reform
Human Rights Unit
Human Rights Watch
IEA Civics Project information
Inland Revenue (tax and national insurance matters in the UK)
Institute for Citizenship
Instituto Socioambiental
Interfaith (information on various religious and spiritual organisations)
'Kick racism out of football' campaign
Kidscape
Landscape Institute
Learn.co.uk (includes mock elections and online debates)
Learn.co.uk (information on debating)
Learning through Landscapes
Local Government Association
Locata (information on how to locate your MP)
Macpherson report and progress following the report
MIT Cascon (history-based conflict analysis)
Muslim Aid
National Assembly for Wales (information for young people)
National Statistics (national and regional statistics for the UK)
Nato
Nato website for Kosovo Force
New York Times Learning Network
Northern Ireland Office
Oneworld.net (links to many other sites covering a wide variety of subjects)
Online register of arts consultants and trainers
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Oxfam
Oxfam Cool Planet
Personal Finance Education Group
Press Complaints Commission
Prison Reform Trust
provides educational resources based on topical news stories
QCA (information on RE)
Rainforest Action Network
RE and Environment Programme
REdirectory (reference point for anyone interested in RE)
Refugee Council
Regional Arts Board
Religious Tolerance (promoting tolerance of all faiths)
'Respect for all' diversity and anti-racist education through the curriculum
RSPCA provides information to support animal welfare
Save the Children
School Councils (information on setting up student and school councils)
Scottish Parliament
Scottish parliament (information for young people and teachers)
Serbian Kosovans site
'Show racism the red card' campaign
Survival
Taizé information
Trust for the Study of Adolescence
UK Food Group
UK Kosovo Refugee Relief
UK Online
UK Parliament (information on bills passing through Parliament, and further support for schools)
UK Youth Parliament
United Kingdom Parliament, House of Commons, House of Lords
United Nations
United Nations Association UK
United Nations Children's Fund
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Upmystreet (a variety of information on different neighbourhoods)
Welsh Assembly
Windows on the world (advice and case studies for north-south school linking)
Windows on the world (online database for schools and colleges)
World Books Fun and Learning
World Council of Churches
Worldaware (promoting understanding of development issues)
WWF
WWF Global Network
YouGov (for online voting on topical issues)
Young People's Parliament
Youth Justice Board
Yugoslav Government
Yvote

NB: care should be taken when encouraging pupils to access websites

Further useful websites can be found in the key stage 4 scheme of work for citizenship.