Course Outline

SMSC / Citizenship lessons helps develop students understanding of themselves, others and the world around them. The Curriculum is set out to help pupils’ cope with the challenges of everyday living and in their development toward adulthood.

• Self-Awareness:  Empathy, sensitivity and charity
• Personal Health: Hygiene, Drugs, Alcohol and Body image
• Healthy Relationships:  CSE , sex and consent
• Rule of Law: Legal system, parliament and the EU
• Rights and Responsibilities: Human Rights, Tolerance and Mutual respect
• Democracy and British values
• Prevention: Child sexual Exploitation, FGM and Radicalisation

Terms	Class 1 / Class 2 / Class 3
Autumn 1	Topic 1: Introduction to Citizenship Topic 2: Human Rights
Autumn 2	Topic 1: Rights & Liberties: When Human Rights are Denied Topic 2: Promoting Wellbeing and Raising Awareness
Spring 1	Topic 1: Crime and Punishment Judicial  System Topic 2: Power and Politics
Spring 2	Topic 1: The Media Topic 2: Global Issues
Summer 1	Life-Skill Unit 1: Finances: Learning to Budget
Summer 2	Life-skills unit 2: Self-Development

Assessment and feedback

^{Formative Assessments:}

• End of topic test (5-10 questions).
• AQA Unit Award Scheme :Pre-Entry and Entry Level

^{Informative Assessment:}

• Starter questions
• Plenaries
• Peer marking

Feedback

^{Student weekly outcome sheet:}

• Differentiated target based questions
• Target setting
• Weekly learning objectives  

^{Student curriculum map:}

• Units and topics
• Success criteria

How parents/carers can help

To further develop and broaden your child’s skills and understanding of Citizenship concepts, you should encourage your child to spend 40 minutes per week doing independent reading ( this could be a newspaper) and going over the notes covered in class.

Encourage your child to watch the News; to ensure that he/she is up to date with social matters.

Test their knowledge and understanding by encouraging them to inform you on their learning, targets and lesson objectives.

Links to online resources

^{1. Citizenship and Active Citizenship}

https://learning.parliament.uk/

https://www.youngcitizens.org/

https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks3/citizenship/

^{2. General support and Advice:}

 http://thehideout.org.uk/

https://www.childline.org.uk/

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/

https://www.youthaccess.org.uk/

^{3. Drugs:}

https://www.talktofrank.com/

https://kidshealth.org/