Our citizenship curriculum
Find out more about our citizenship curriculum
Introduction
We’ve worked closely with curriculum partners, subject experts and teachers on our interactive citizenship curriculum plan. You can also download the plan to use offline to help with your planning.
Our curriculum partner for citizenship is:
- citizenship secondary: Association for Citizenship Teaching (ACT)
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.
Curriculum explainer
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.
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.
When will all the resources be available?
We're releasing the new resources on a rolling basis as soon as they're ready. By autumn 2025, you'll have access to everything we're releasing for citizenship.
Our new units and lessons will all have a ‘New’ label beside them.
You can see what lessons we'll cover in each unit by clicking into the unit information on the unit sequence page.
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