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September 28, 2026
# Our citizenship curriculum
## Find out more about our citizenship curriculum
### Contents
- [Introduction](https://support.thenational.academy/our-citizenship-curriculum#intro)
- [Which citizenship curriculum plans are available?](https://support.thenational.academy/our-citizenship-curriculum#which-plans-avail)
- [Unit sequences](https://support.thenational.academy/our-citizenship-curriculum#unit)
- [Curriculum explainer](https://support.thenational.academy/our-citizenship-curriculum#curric-explainer)
- [Downloading plans and the national curriculum alignment document](https://support.thenational.academy/our-citizenship-curriculum#download)
- [More about our citizenship curriculum](https://support.thenational.academy/our-citizenship-curriculum#more)
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### **Introduction**
We’ve worked closely with curriculum partners, subject experts and teachers on our [interactive citizenship curriculum plan](https://www.thenational.academy/about-us/oaks-curricula). You can also download the plan to use offline to help with your planning.
Our curriculum partner for citizenship is:
- citizenship primary: coming soon.
- citizenship secondary: [Association for Citizenship Teaching (ACT)](https://www.thenational.academy/blog/introducing-our-citizenship-curriculum-partner)
Meet our citizenship Subject Lead, Geoff Wells, where he talks about his memorable moments teaching pupils about debating skills and school trips to the House of Commons and the Oak citizenship curriculum including new content about the UK relationship with the EU and case studies from around the world.
### **Which citizenship curriculum plans are available?**
We have the following citizenship curriculum plans available to browse and download.
- Citizenship KS3 and 4 unit sequences for:
- [GCSE](https://www.thenational.academy/teachers/programmes/citizenship-secondary-gcse/units)
- [Core](https://www.thenational.academy/teachers/programmes/citizenship-secondary-core/units)
### **Unit sequences**
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You can view our curriculum sequence using the unit sequence tab. It will display the units available for each year group, how many lessons are available in a unit and a recommended order.
Click into a unit to see a description of 'why this, why now' and 'prior knowledge requirements' to help you consider the sequence of your current planning. You can move easily from units into lessons to understand **lesson outcomes**, helping you connect curriculum intent with classroom delivery.
You can also see how threads show common themes develop across an entire phase or filter the view to see a single year group.
### **Curriculum explainer**
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We've added a curriculum explainer to our citizenship curriculum to help you understand our thinking when we were making them with our curriculum partner.
For citizenship this will help you understand:
- our overarching curriculum approach and the subject principles we used
- how our curriculum reflects the aims and purpose of the national curriculum
- information on delivering it in your school
- how we use threads to provide curriculum coherence.
### Download plans and the national curriculum alignment document
Find out more about how to use our interactive curriculum plans and **adapt them for your school** in our [help article: A guide to our curriculum plans](https://support.thenational.academy/a-guide-to-our-new-curricula?hsLang=en).
Download the curriculum plan to help you see all the content in one place, including the explainer, the units and the lessons.
**🛠️ Curriculum implementation toolkit **
When you download a curriculum plan, you'll also get our **new curriculum implementation documents**. Our implementation toolkit helps subject and phase leads put our curriculum into practice.
Get **Common questions** and **Checking pupils' understanding in our lessons** now with more guides for every subject and phase to follow.
The national curriculum document explains how the Oak citizenship curriculum aligns to the national curriculum.
**Did you know?**
We also have financial education lessons and citizenship units to enhance pupils’ financial literacy. See our [blog: Helping pupils get smart about financial education and online spending – new lesson resources for primary and secondary teachers](https://www.thenational.academy/blog/helping-pupils-get-smart-about-financial-education-and-online-spending-new-lesson-resources-for).
### More about our citizenship curriculum
In our [citizenship curriculum video](https://www.thenational.academy/teachers/programmes/citizenship-secondary-core/curriculum-explainer#header-video-guide), our citizenship subject lead Geoff Wells, explores the key thinking behind the creation of our secondary citizenship curriculum.
You can also read Geoff's latest [blog: Teaching the rule of law](https://www.thenational.academy/blog/teaching-the-rule-of-law).
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