a lesson that gets students to consider where on the political spectrum political parties are.

I have used this lesson with Year 8 & year 9 students. I use the easy read formats of all the political parties so they understand what a manifesto is and should look like. I have attached one as an example. You can usually find these easily when you google for them. The project booklets are completed by each student and allows for self, peer & teacher assessment. This would need changing for your schools own assessment system but you get the idea. This lesson usually takes about 3-4 lessons and I allow students access to computer rooms so they can research their policies and create things for their campaign. They then have to present their ideas to a panel (of teachers etc who vote) to see which party has been the most persuasive and won the class election. the best groups from across the year group then meet the local MP to discuss their ideas. Students LOVE this project and get a lot out of it. I hope you enjoy it and I welcome your feedback.

I use this lesson with my year 7 students. It always seems to get them engaged. I hope you enjoy it too.

A look at brexit

an in-depth look at the different voting systems that existing the UK for GCSE Citizenship Students

I start my Year 7 Rights & responsibilities Sow with this lesson. I hope you find it useful.

lesson covering what the British constitution is for gcse students

lesson cover different ways to engage the electorate

A look at how the MP Expenses scandal affected UK politics & demonstrated the power of the people & the media in a democracy

I use this lesson as part of my Rights & responsibilities unit for year 8 where we start looking at WW2 and how it led to the creation of the UDHR.

I use this with my year 9 students the past paper questions are taken from the old OCR GCSE citizenship papers.

Theme 2 of AQA GCSE Citizenship course. Lesson 1 of SoW

I use this once a term to give detailed feedback quickly to students. Do not try to use this every time you mark (as if you are like me and have about 300 students you teach it's too much workload wise). You could get students to use this as part of peer assessment based upon your feedback too. I hope you find it helpful.

I use this at least once a term with my classes when I take their books in as it's quick & easy to use showing students what they need to do to improve etc. I have got some of my more able classes to use it as a peer assessment of books too.

I have taught this lesson for about 6 years now as part of the rights & Responsibilities Unit in year 7. It always gets the students engaged and I would recommend it. It can lead nicely into active citizenship where the students have the option to form a group and campaign on the International Red Hands Day as well. I welcome your feedback :)

AQA GCSE CITIZENSHIP- Rights & Legal entitlements. Covers the youth justice system as well. Lesson 4 in SoW.

this covers the aspect of how others (e.g. the us) govern themselves.

I created the end of unit paper using past gcse questions from OCR & AQA so that section A tests students knowledge with low mark questions and section B tests their ability to apply their knowledge to higher mark questions this gave students 2 GCSE grades (based upon the last year grade boundaries and allowed us to do a SWOT analysis of them in this unit). The resit is a combination of both knowledge & skills. I hope you find this useful. Feedback is welcomed :)

This session goes through what parliament week is, suggests activities to complete in the week and makes links to british values.

I have created 3 booklets that I have used with my students. One looks at various sources based questions from the 2 papers. One looks specifically at section B of the A342 exam and the other contains past 12 mark questions for the A342 exam. My students like having these booklets to help them practice the areas they felt weakest in. I hope you find them useful. I welcome feedback. :)