Welcome to your Pearson Edexcel Citizenship Studies May 2025 subject update!
Hello colleagues,
Time is certainly moving quickly, and the exam season is upon us. On behalf of the Citizenship team, we extend our best wishes to all Citizenship Studies students for their success!
As always, please do get in touch with me if you have any queries about anything in this subject update or if I can help with anything regarding our qualification.
Best wishes,
Jenna Wyatt
Citizenship Subject Advisor
I wanted to re-share a copy of the exam timetables so that you had easy access to them during the exam period. You can access these for each qualification below:
As we gear up for the GCSE exams this summer, I thought it would be useful to share with you some resources available to support you.
Available for each paper, collating all past exam questions.
A range of exemplar answers across question types, at different levels and marks.
We have compiled a list of top examiner tips to support students at GCSE Citizenship Studies prepare for their exams.
The above YouTube playlist includes a couple of videos which support assessment and marking.
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:
The UK Parliament Outreach team can bring UK Parliament directly to your school. The Outreach team offer engaging and high-quality assemblies for all primary, secondary, and post-16 education providers.
Each assembly equips students with a broad understanding of how UK Parliament works, the roles and responsibilities of MPs and members of the House of Lords as well as how they can get their voice heard.
You can request an Outreach visit below. Please note, requests are subject to availability of the Outreach Officer in your area.
Details on Outreach school assemblies - Parliament UK Education
