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Citizenship at key stage 3


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Taking part

The scheme of work for citizenship includes the booklet Getting involved: extending opportunities for pupil participation.

Who's it for?
Teachers of citizenship at key stage 3, heads of department, curriculum managers, ITT departments.

What's it about?
This booklet offers ideas for citizenship activities to promote pupil participation. It forms part of the citizenship scheme of work for key stage 3.

Related material
The National Curriculum for England

What's it for?
To show how citizenship may be taught to pupils at key stage 3.

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This booklet offers ideas for citizenship activities to promote pupil participation. A number of activities are provided for teachers and pupils to choose from, and these can take place in the school or the wider community (or a mixture of the two). They enable pupils to develop skills of participation and responsible action (see 3a, 3b and 3c in the citizenship programme of study). Depending on the context and planning of the activities, they may also address aspects of knowledge and understanding about becoming informed citizens, and of developing skills of enquiry and communication. Many of the activities are also suitable for use at key stage 4.

The planning of the activities may require the use of tutorial time, or time in citizenship, PSHE or other subject lessons. Some activities can be delivered as off-timetable events, and others will require the involvement and cooperation of members of communities outside the school. In all cases, pupils should have opportunities to reflect on their involvement, and to identify what they have learnt and how it can be applied.

The citizenship key stage 4 participation booklet may be a useful additional resource. It is available from the citizenship key stage 4 area.


Units

Unit 01. Citizenship - what's it all about?
Unit 02. Crime
Unit 03. Human rights
Unit 04. Britain - a diverse society?
Unit 05. How the law protects animals - a local-to-global study
Unit 06. Government, elections and voting
Unit 07. Local democracy
Unit 08. Leisure and sport in the local community
Unit 09. The significance of the media in society
Unit 10. Debating a global issue
Unit 11. Why is it so difficult to keep the peace in the world today?
Unit 12. Why did women and some men have to struggle for the vote in Britain? What is the point of voting today?
Unit 13. How do we deal with conflict?
Unit 14. Developing skills of democratic participation
Unit 15. Crime and safety awareness - a whole-school multi-agency approach
Unit 16. Celebrating human rights - citizenship activities for the whole school
Unit 17. School linking
Unit 18. Developing your school grounds
Unit 19. Assessing progress and recognising achievement at the end of key stage 3
Unit 20. What's in the public interest?
Unit 21. People and the environment