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A high-quality citizenship education helps to provide pupils with knowledge, skills and understanding to prepare them to play a full and active part in society. In particular, citizenship education should foster pupils’ keen awareness and understanding of democracy, government and how laws are made and upheld. This is even more apposite with the changes coming that will allow 16-year-olds to vote come the next general election. Teaching should equip pupils with the skills and knowledge to explore political and social issues critically, to weigh evidence, debate and make reasoned arguments. It should also prepare pupils to take their place in society as responsible citizens, manage their money well and make sound financial decisions.

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The subject lead uses Excel to record data for formative and summative assessments purposes which supports planning for whole class and individuals. Half Termly topics are recorded as a learning journal to share pupils learning and understanding with parents.

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We thrive to teach our pupils the essential skills required in every day life such as: Listening, Speaking, Problem Solving, Creativity, Staying Positive, Aiming High, Leadership and Teamwork following this framework

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SCARF Planning templates and tools SCARF is designed so that you can tailor it to your pupils' needs. The ready-made programmes below provide a starting point. Choose one of them - or build your own programme. If you choose SCARF half-termly units then long-term and medium-term plans are also provided for these.

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Within Key Stage 3 Citizenship studies, our intent is to ensure all students gain the basic knowledge, understanding and skills to become young and engaged active citizens. With an initial focus on ‘Citizenship- what’s it all about’, the idea of being informed and active takes centre stage, as pupils explore the importance of looking at different sorts of information, rules, fairness, the concept of democracy and our school as a community. Crime, identity, communities and global connections, our rights including freedom of speech, the law, politics, and government allow pupils to see their place in the wider world and how they can shape the future. This is strengthened and built upon with modules on equality, migration, money management and young persons’ active role within democracy.

In Key Stage 4, students take a more critical and in-depth attitude to learning about democracy, government, British values and how to be an active participant in our modern British society. As students continue their Citizenship into Key Stage 4, our intention is to advance and mature the passion, interest, and political commitment, learning about the complex workings UK Parliament, liabilities, strengths and weaknesses, human rights, UK effectiveness on the world stage and civil liberties including links to the justice system. As the Key Stage 4 curriculum comes together, the intention gives emphasises to the sustained advance on witnessing young people becoming active citizens and campaigners in their local, national, and global community.

At Sheridan School our approach to teaching Citizenship nurtures and endorses our ethos and beliefs that we empower every student to surpass in a Safe, Caring and Inclusive Environment, to both achieve and succeed. Citizenship is indeed an essential instrument for everyday life. It helps prepare our students to take their place in society as responsible, well-rounded, and importantly, well-informed active citizens; as well as providing a way of viewing and making sense of the world.

At Sheridan School, we deliver a curriculum that:

·        Builds knowledge through personalised learning based upon each student’s individual starting point; it does not leave gaps that then impact on their ability to develop and understand furthermore complex processes.

·        Enables students to make worthwhile connections as a global citizen.

·        Equips students with life skills to apply their Citizenship going forward as responsible adults.

·        Gives students the belief that being confident in their own identity and themselves will benefit them in everyday life.

·        Results in students having the opportunity to leave Sheridan School with a nationally recognised qualification in Citizenship.

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The curriculum is sequenced into half termly threads, with direction of the Subject lead. However, teachers also are encouraged to use their professional judgement to select the topic they feel is best appropriate for their class. This is monitored by the subject lead to ensure pupils are exposed to subjects across their school time.

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Cross Curricular; How it all links together...

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Cross Curricular; How it all links together...

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Preparation for adult life: skills

PSHE: self-awareness, self-care, changing and growing, the World I live in.

Careers: skills, jobs people do, people who can help me, Gatsby benchmarks

School Life: being safe and interacting in a social environment

Science: Biology and the human body, reproduction, puberty

History: learning about the world around me, history and politics of Citizenship objectives

P.E: making people feel welcome, inclusion

Maths: managing money, screen time usage

Literacy: character focus, descriptions and feelings

Computing: relationships online, E-safety

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The Association for Citizenship framework for pupils with SEND

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The Association for Citizenship framework for pupils with SEND

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At Sheridan we use the Association for Citizenship as part of our planning framework for pupils with SEND to base our planning and objectives on

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Students at Sheridan School have equal access to a broad and balanced curriculum, adapted to enable ALL students the ability to realise the relevance and importance of gaining Citizenship knowledge, competences and life-skills going forward. This fosters self-esteem and self-assurance that leads to students making progress and individual choices that are monitored closely and appropriately.

Teachers need to be aware of pupil’s EHCP and individual ‘Pupil on a Page’, document. This will inform them of student’s requirements, enhancing teachers’ abilities to use a wide range of strategies to meet pupil’s additional needs, including:

·       Sequenced lessons based on the National Curriculum.

·       Clear, adaptive learning objectives and success criteria.

·       Regular assessment to inform the next stage of learning.

·       Revision of key knowledge and skills, allowing repetition to embed learning.

·       Provision of coloured backgrounds if needed for teaching resources.

·       The use of concrete manipulatives to secure learning.

·       Regular book scrutiny, learning walks and observations, ensures that standards are set and remain high across the subject.

Our curriculum is frequently reviewed to ensure that it is current and effective, creating continuity and progression in the teaching of Citizenship. Teachers are supported and aided in their teaching practices through regular scheduled meetings or on a one-to-one basis.

This ensures:

·       An awareness of strategies required to enable SEND students to access the full curriculum.

·       Lessons are adapted in many ways to ensure there is appropriate challenge and support for all learners.

·       Awareness of responsibility to ensure additional adults are used in the classroom effectively, in line with the schemes of work.

These meetings also give all teaching staff opportunities to discuss students’ work and progression in Citizenship. Students take assessments at the conclusion of each half-term. This helps to set a personalised target and determine whether they require any interventions. Students can use online learning programmes to further enhance and mature skills that are in line with individually set targets. Throughout the year we continue to assess the students and consolidate learning with end of topic and end of term tests.

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The curriculum is sequenced into half termly threads, with direction of the subject lead. However, teachers also are encouraged to use their professional judgement to select the topic they feel is best appropriate for their class. This is monitored by the subject lead to ensure pupils are exposed to subjects across their school time.

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The impact of our Citizenship Curriculum will lead to excellent advancement across all key stages relative to all starting points. In-turn, students learning Citizenship increase the probabilities of being more self-confident, self-reliant, have assuredness. Most importantly, it gives them a voice: in the life of their schools, their communities and society at large.                 By accessing a rich and broad Citizenship Curriculum, students will become passionate about the subject, gaining an understanding that it encompasses much knowledge required to support them on their journey onward. Citizenship will help students understand the relevance and importance of what they are learning for their future endeavours. It supports them to possess ‘active citizenship’ skills, thus enriching their lives throughout their own individual personal experiences, and most essentially, become ‘Active Citizens’ for life, not only whilst at Sheridan School.

The Schemes of Work are linked to Oak Academy, GCSE AQA National Curriculum qualifications and from Year 9 onwards, pupils can participate in the ASDAN Certification Scheme: thus, offering our pupils personalised prescribed adaptation with wider topic options and greater independent choices going forward.

Impact will show:

·        Students demonstrate mastery of what they have been learning. A concept or knowledge has been acquired and embedded when a student can show its relevance and application within the wider arena of the topics covered.

·        Students can demonstrate accurate recall of specific facts and events that have given rise to the advancement of free speech, identity and democracy.

·        Students can recognise relationships, direct connections and driving forces between topics in Citizenship.

·        Students keen to demonstrate a show a high level of pride in the presentation and understanding of the work.

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At Sheridan School, our approach to teaching Citizenship fosters and promotes our ethos and beliefs that we empower every student to excel in a Safe, Caring and Inclusive Environment to achieve and succeed. We recognise that Citizenship knowledge is essential for everyday life.                                                                            Citizenship education at Sheridan School seeks to provide students with knowledge, skills and understanding to prepare them to play a full and active part in society. At Sheridan School, our aim is to encourage, develop and promote a profound awareness and understanding of democracy, government and how laws are made and upheld. This applies on many levels, with focus on democracy in school via the School Council, local, national, and global politics. All students are encouraged within the curriculum to take the opportunity to debate and make reasoned arguments based on evidence and a range of opinions.

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We use the Zones of Regulation curriculum sequences throughout our daily curriculum at Sheridan, encouraging pupils to express and understand their emotions.

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At Sheridan we use The SCARF planning framework for pupils with SEND to base our planning and objectives on

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Coram Life Education & SCARF is the UK's leading charity provider of PSHE and wellbeing education in primary schools.

Our SCARF resources are developed by teachers for teachers. Over 50,000 subscribe to SCARF as their chosen provider of PSHE. Here are a few reasons why:

A Whole-school approach to health and wellbeing

Fully-resourced, comprehensive PSHE programme - over 360 lesson plans

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SCARF's whole-school approach supports primary schools in promoting positive behaviour, mental health, wellbeing, resilience and achievement - giving you everything you need to meet the DfE RSHE statutory requirements. More than just a PSHE scheme of work, SCARF supports great learning every day.

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SCARF: Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, Friendship

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Coram Life Education & SCARF is the UK's leading charity provider of PSHE and wellbeing education in primary schools. Our SCARF resources are developed by teachers for teachers. Over 50,000 subscribe to SCARF as their chosen provider of PSHE.

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Young People and Citizenship Report June 2025

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Young People and Citizenship Report June 2025

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How can citizens work together for a more sustainable future?

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How can citizens work together for a more sustainable future?

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How can citizens work together for a more sustainable future?

About this unit

This two-lesson unit helps students understand climate change, sustainability, and climate justice through active citizenship. Students explore how environmental challenges impact people differently and why sustainable development is crucial.

The first lesson introduces climate change, climate justice, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through discussions and analysis, students examine global and local responsibilities in tackling these issues. The second lesson focuses on activism, showcasing real changemakers and their methods. Students then develop their own advocacy strategies, practising persuasive communication and considering ways to take action in their communities.

By the end of the unit, students will have a deeper understanding of sustainability issues, the role of collective action, and how they can contribute to environmental and social justice.

National curriculum links
KS3: the roles played by public institutions and voluntary groups in society, and the ways in which citizens work together to improve their communities, including opportunities to participate in school-based activities

KS4: human rights and international law; the different ways in which a citizen can contribute to the improvement of his or her community, to include the opportunity to participate actively in community volunteering, as well as other forms of responsible activity

Citizenship skills
Critical thinking, active citizenship, representing your views to others, evaluation, Informing others’ opinions, collaborative working, making judgements, investigation, debating, advocacy

Citizenship concepts
Fairness and justice, rights, inequalities and participation, sustainability

Building progression
Other units linked to this theme include:

Year 7: How can we be informed consumers?

Year 8: Who has the power to bring about change in our local communities?

Year 9: Community volunteers or social media influencers – who has most power and influence?

Year 10: How can I be a changemaker in my local community?

Join as a School and College Member to access this complete collection of lesson plans, slides and support resources.

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Expert-led session: Effective racial equity in the curriculum

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ACT’s Quality Standard: feedback workshop

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On-demand CPD: Why are concepts so important in Citizenship teaching?

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On-demand CPD: How to teach about courts and the justice system

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About this session

Lesson planning is a skill that takes time to develop. Join us for this pre-recorded CPD session with experienced teachers to explore the intricacies of a well-planned Citizenship lesson.

This workshop will lead you through the process of planning lessons that develop students' substantive Citizenship knowledge and provide opportunities for them to demonstrate their understanding. Core elements of pedagogy that are key to successful Citizenship teaching will be explored. The importance of the structure of the lesson and progression through the lesson will be discussed to help unlock some of the important considerations for all Citizenship teachers. One comment from a participant last year about this workshop was "This was so helpful, not just for Citizenship but all the subjects I teach. Thank you."

This session is led by our Head of Education and Professional Development, Zoe Baker, and ACT Teaching Ambassador and Chair of the ACT Council, Helen Blachford. Helen has a wealth of experience teaching and leading Citizenship, and in 2022 received the David Blunkett Award for Outstanding Contribution to Citizenship. She holds the post of Lead for Personal Development across her MAT.

Who is it for?

Experienced teachers who are new to teaching Citizenship

Early career teachers

Trainee teachers

Why register?

Gain greater understanding of the pedagogy used in Citizenship lessons.

Build confidence in planning Citizenship lessons around knowledge and understanding.

Leave with practical strategies to use in the classroom.

How do I access the session?

After registering, the video and supporting materials will be available to access in the Booked Events area in your Membership Dashboard from 16 September 2024.

Useful information
This workshop will support the ITTECF through discussion and analysis with expert colleagues in the following areas:

Reducing learning distractions (e.g. keeping the complexity of a task to a minimum, so attention is focused on content).

Breaking complex material into smaller steps (e.g. using partially completed examples to focus pupils).

Identifying possible misconceptions and planning how to prevent these forming.

Linking what pupils already know to what is being taught (e.g. explaining how new content builds on what is already known).

Designing practice, generation and retrieval tasks that provide enough support for pupils to experience a high success rate when attempting challenging work.

Balancing exposition, repetition, practice and retrieval of critical knowledge and skills.

Providing opportunities for all pupils to learn and master essential concepts, knowledge, skills and principles of the subject.

Planning activities around what you want pupils to think hard about.

Including a range of types of questions in class discussions to extend and challenge pupils (e.g. by modelling new vocabulary or asking pupils to justify answers).

CPD strand - Introduction to Citizenship

This session is part of ACT's CPD strand designed for anyone who is new to the subject - from ITE trainees, to experienced teachers who are teaching Citizenship for the first time. Introduction to Citizenship sessions help to develop your understanding of the core substantive knowledge of the subject, key concepts, and best practice in pedagogy. As outlined above, they have also been designed to support the ITTECF criteria, particularly in relation to subject, curriculum and classroom practice.

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On-demand CPD: How to plan an effective Citizenship lesson

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About this session Lesson planning is a skill that takes time to develop. Join us for this pre-recorded CPD session with experienced teachers to explore the intricacies of a well-planned Citizenship lesson. This workshop will lead you through the process of planning lessons that develop students' substantive Citizenship knowledge and provide opportunities for them to demonstrate their understanding.

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On-demand CPD: How to use ACTive Citizenship Toolkits

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On-demand CPD: How to plan a scheme of work

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Take a look at our Citizenship Road map

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DFE Citizenship Statutory Guidance KS3 and KS4 

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DFE Citizenship Statutory Guidance KS3 and KS4 

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Aspris Citizenship Guidance and Policy Document

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Aspris Citizenship Guidance and Policy Document