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Citizenship at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 1-6)

Unit 05: Living in a diverse world

QCA

Objectives

Section 1: How are we the same and how are we different?
Children should learn:
  • to recognise and show respect for similarities and differences
  • about identities and the things that contribute to our identity, including our membership of different groups
  • to take turns in speaking and to respond appropriately to others
  • that all children have basic needs and rights as human beings, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, size, ability, etc
  • to develop strategies to deal with prejudice, including racism, and to support others who encounter it

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Section 2: What are communities like?
Children should learn:
  • about different communities, including family and school
  • to discuss and communicate their feelings and opinions about their communities
  • to recognise and respect diversity within their communities
  • to work in pairs or small groups to share their views

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Section 3: What are different places like?
Children should learn:
  • about different places, drawing on their own and others' experience
  • to devise an enquiry into life in another type of community
  • that there are similarities, as well as differences, between communities in other parts of the world and our own

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Section 4: How are we all connected?
Children should learn:
  • to find evidence that they live in an interdependent world
  • that their actions affect themselves and others at a variety of levels, from a family/classroom level through to a global level
  • to reflect on what they have learnt about their identities, their communities and how places in the world are interdependent
  • to listen to and reflect on the words of others in the class

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Sections in this unit

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1. How are we the same and how are we different?
2. What are communities like?
3. What are different places like?
4. How are we all connected?