What do we do?

Citizenship is taught through the different Humanities areas by speciality teachers.

    History

  • Year 7 – Government and Local Council
  • Year 8 – Ethnicity and Race
  • Year 9 – Political Debate and Elections

    Geography

  • Year 7 – The EU/UN
  • Year 8 – Hopes and Dream
  • Year 9 – National Parks

    Religious Studies

  • Year 7 – Shoes boxes and Charity
  • Year 8 – What makes a good Citizen?
  • Year 9 and 10 – Undertaking GCSE RE and Citizenship AQA specification

Geography contributes to citizenship by enabling pupils to:

  • understand how decisions are made about places and environments across a range of scales (local to global) and appreciate opportunities for their own involvement;
  • reflect on and discuss topical social, environmental, economic and political issues;
  • understand the diversity of cultures and identities in the UK and the wider world;
  • understand the issues and challenges of global interdependence;
  • reflect on the consequences of their own actions in situations concerning places and environments;
  • understand their rights and responsibilities to other people and the environment.

    History has a significant role to play in citizenship education, for example:

  • pupils learn how the past influences the present, what past societies were like, how these societies organised their politics, and what beliefs and cultures influenced people’s actions;
  • pupils see the diversity of human experience, and understand more about themselves as individuals and members of society;
  • what pupils learn can influence their decisions about personal choices, attitudes and values;
  • pupils develop skills that are prized in adult life, such as evaluating evidence and arguing for a point of view.

    RE contributes to citizenship by

  • providing opportunities for pupils to see how individual, group and political choices, policies and actions, eg human rights, are inextricably linked with and influenced by religious and moral beliefs, practices and values;
  • providing opportunities for pupils to understand and deal with local, national, European and global issues through knowledge and understanding of their religious dimensions and contexts;
  • enabling pupils to understand and exercise the meaning of personal, social and moral responsibility;
  • enabling pupils to see how human beings across the world treat each other and their environments and why they treat them as they do;
  • enabling pupils to develop active citizenship by involvement with voluntary religious and charitable activities.