Citizenship

Citizenship is studied in year 10. Pupils spend two lessons a week studying citizenship which can result in a half a GCSE.

They learn about living together as a community, both within their own country and beyond. Citizenship education gives them the knowledge they need to play a full and active part in society.

Understanding how society works will help them to live more easily within it, and give them the power to make things better for other people, too.

The citizenship course will help them to understand how they can make their voice heard and change things they don't like. The syllabus includes a citizenship activity which all pupils have to participate in. This can be organising a fund raising activity or organising a mock election, setting up a radio station in the school etc.

The rest of the syllabus consists of looking at human rights, power, politics and the media, the global village and the UK's place in the world.