Key Stage 3 Model Core Citizenship Curriculum - overview and resources
Key stage 3 • Model curriculum
Key Stage 3 Citizenship Model Curriculum
Our model curriculum for key stage 3 is mapped to the Citizenship National Curriculum for England, and ACT’s 9 Principles of Effective Citizenship Education. The model curriculum is sequenced to take your students through all the required content – knowledge, understanding and skills that will allow students to progress to key stage 4 and further GCSE study. The model curriculum is designed to promote critical thinking and active learning by using overarching key enquiries as a basis for each scheme. Our model core curriculum resources are only available to School and College members.
Schemes of work
The schemes of work in ACT’s key stage 3 model curriculum provide lesson plans, slides and ready to use pupil resources. They can be used and adapted to support you in providing rigorous, progressive and engaging citizenship teaching.
- What role can I play in making our school a fairer place?
- How can we be informed consumers?
- How do laws affect us?
- Who runs the United Kingdom?
- Who has the power to bring about change in our local communities?
- Why is the local economy important to society?
- Does the criminal justice system serve everyone fairly?
- Community volunteers or social media influencers – who has the most power and influence?
- Fraud is the biggest crime in society – what can we do about it?
- Are elections the best way to decide who runs the country?
Teaching key stage 3 Citizenship knowledge
Through the study of Citizenship, students are taught substantive knowledge in relation to politics, parliament, power and the law, as well as human rights, justice, equality, the economy, communities and the UK’s role in the wider world.
Teaching key stage 3 Citizenship skills
The lessons are designed to build Citizenship skills of active participation, political literacy, evaluation, informing others’ opinions, collaborative working, negotiation, planning, media literacy, communication, analysis and investigation, raising awareness and deliberative debate.
- What role can I play in making our school a fairer place?
- How can we be informed consumers?
- How do laws affect us?
- Who runs the United Kingdom?
- Who has the power to bring about change in our local communities?
- Why is the local economy important to society?
- Does the criminal justice system serve everyone fairly?
- Community volunteers or social media influencers – who has the most power and influence?
- Fraud is the biggest crime in society – what can we do about it?
- Are elections the best way to decide who runs the country?
