Citizenship at key stage 3

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

What’s it about?
This guide shows how the national curriculum programme of study for key stage 3 citizenship, and the attainment target, can be translated into practical plans.

Related material
The National Curriculum for England

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

As citizenship is a new national curriculum subject, this Teacher’s guide gives information about planning and developing provision, including an exemplar audit and planning framework. Teachers and managers can use it to identify appropriate opportunities for citizenship within the curriculum and the life of the school as a whole.

This booklet also gives guidance about:

• what whole-school issues need to be considered when planning the citizenship curriculum;
  
• deciding how best to combine the different ways of delivering citizenship;
  
• links between citizenship and the non-statutory guidelines for PSHE, the other national curriculum subjects and religious education (RE), as well as literacy, key skills and thinking skills;
  
• how citizenship relates to issues of inclusion and diversity;
  
• how to assess pupils and involve them in reviewing their own progress;
  
• different approaches to teaching and learning, including ideas for developing active citizenship skills, such as participation and communication;
• how to use and combine units to ensure that the requirements of the key stage 3 programme of study for citizenship are addressed; and
  
• dealing with sensitive and controversial issues.
  
  The citizenship key stage 4 Teacher's Guide may be a useful additional resource. It is available from the citizenship key stage 4 area.