February 2024 Citizenship Studies subject update
Welcome to your Pearson Edexcel Citizenship Studies February 2024 subject update!
I hope you have had a fantastic February break and are well-rested ready for the new half term. We are pleased to share a new resource focusing on Paper 1, Section B exam question support with key advice from our examiners. We hope you find it useful!
As always, if you have any queries about anything in this subject update or about our qualification, then please do get in touch with me.
Best wishes,
Susan Currey
Citizenship Studies Subject Advisor
Contact details:
☎ Call: 0344 463 2535
✉ Email: TeachingCitizenship@pearson.com
💻 Book a Teams meeting with me: https://bit.ly/3rEVLx8
Guidance with exam questions: Section B
Thank you for those who got in touch with us with their fantastic feedback on our guide to exam questions looking at Paper 1, Section A. To further support you, we are now publishing our guide to Paper 1: Section B (Democracy at work in the UK). We hope you find it useful!
*You will need your Edexcel Online login to access these as it includes the most recent exam materials.
examWizard training session
'examWizard' is a free exam preparation tool containing a bank of past Edexcel exam questions, mark schemes and examiners' reports for a range of GCSE, GCE, Functional Skills subjects & BTEC sectors.
It allows you to select and build your own mock exams with access to past exam questions across series.
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Find out more about examWizard
To find out more about the benefits of exam wizard and how to use this useful tool.
To support you, we will be running a training session focusing on how to use examWizard and get the most out of this tool.
| Date | Time | Booking link |
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Monday 18th March |
16:00 - 17:15 (GMT) |
Booking link |
Citizenship action submission
Citizenship action is a planned course of informed action to address a citizenship issue or question of concern and aimed at delivering a benefit or change for a particular community or wider society. This is a required part of the GCSE Citizenship Studies course and students are examined on their action as part of Paper 2.
Each year, centres must certify that candidates have completed their Citizenship Action and submit a form to confirm this.
This must be submitted by 15th May.
The links to the Citizenship Action form and the authentification submission are below:
Citizenship Action Guidance
For further support around Citizenship Action, we have the following guide available to centres:
UK Parliament learning resources
The UK Parliament learning webpage includes free education services, offering face-to-face opportunities, online and outreach sessions, learning resources and professional development opportunities.
These include things such as:
- Learn with the Lords (online or in school)
- UK Parliament Teacher Abassador Programme
- Podcasts
- Tours of UK Parliament
You can access these at the link below:
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UK Parliament webpage
Access the UK Parliament main webpage
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UK Parliament school resources
Access school resources
Bingham Centre resources
The Bingham Centre for the rule of law includes a range of resources and opportunities that can support the teaching of GCSE Citizenship Studies.
These include things such as:
- House of Lords Youth Engagement series
- School Workshops
- Lesson resources
- Videos
- Podcasts
You can access these at the link below:
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Bingham Centre resources
Access the Bingham Centre resources webpage
I hope you found this update useful.
Please get in touch with me if you have any questions!
Subject advisor
Jenna Wyatt
Citizenship
