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.

complementary powerpoint to the AQA Student text book

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

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

lesson covering what the British constitution is for gcse students

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. parts of it I have also used in GCSE to recap crime & punishment

I use this lesson with my year 7 students. you need to be a bit 'tongue in cheek' getting them to sing a 'national anthem' of who wonderful you are and tell them they are doing the tasks or they get a week of detentions etc, BUT the kids remember this lesson and they understand the different types of government from it.

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.

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

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

My classes have been struggling with understanding how to approach the questions and understanding the pre-released information. These handouts are walking students through what to expect in the questions and it gets them using some metacognitive strategies to reflect upon their revision of topics and organise their notes in preparartion for the exam. There is a clear focus on Paper 1 but Paper 2 is covered.

I have used this lesson as part of the new AQA spec for Theme 3 and with my year 9 students as part of their Politics & extremism unit. I hope you find it useful. I welcome feedback too :)

This lesson is a PowerPoint with worksheets etc. on the PowerPoint. I have taught this lesson for a few years now to Year 7 and it has always been received well. I would suggest that you say your door is open to them if they have found any of the lesson upsetting etc. However, my students have always voted at the end for this lesson to be taught again the following year.

I have created a blockbusters game for some of the key terms in the current OCR Citizenship GCSE. I hope you find it useful. My students loved it and were REALLY competitive. Feedback is welcomed :)

I have taught this lesson to Year 8 students as part of their Human Rights unit. It follows on from the UDHR/WW2 lesson. The plenary discussion usually gives a great insight into their knowledge of other examples and they find it shocking that these things still happen.

this can be rushed through in one lesson or explored in 2 lessons. It covers the aspects of the AQA GCSE for taxation & government spending.

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. :)

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 :)