Welcome to your Pearson Edexcel Citizenship Studies November 2026 subject update!
Hello colleagues,
November is here and with it, a fresh burst of energy as we head into the final stretch of the autumn term. In this month's edition, we’ll be diving into upcoming events, new resources and enrichment opportunities to support your planning.
Best wishes,
Jenna Wyatt
Citizenship Subject Advisor
This training is for teachers of Pearson Edexcel GCSE Citizenship Studies and provides feedback and insights on the summer 2026 exam series. The session identifies key observations related to candidate performance highlighted in the examiner report and provides strategies to help with your planning for the year ahead.
You will:
10 November 2026 16:00-17:00
‘Citizenship Studies in the News’ aims to stimulate discussion for GCSE Citizenship Studies by considering contemporary issues and their relevance to our lives.
We have compiled a range of current news articles* and linked these to the key questions, explored in themes A-D of the specification. You may wish to investigate and integrate into your teaching practice to help contextualise key issues and bring the subject to life!
Edition 20 includes the following articles:
Theme A: Article 1 is from Sky News. Article 2 is from mi5.gov. Both explore the threat of terrorism.
Theme B: Both articles are from BBC News, they explore who Andy Burnham chose to help run the country and what he wants his new government to achieve.
Theme C: Article is from The Guardian. The Guardian examines whether police acted lawfully when searching properties linked to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, demonstrating judicial review in practice.
Theme D: Articles from the Daily Mirror and independent news platform ‘Democracy Now!’ consider the events in France and the questions French
people are asking about their right to protest, and the legal challenges.
We have updated the Exam Question Overview documents to include questions from the summer series for each section on both papers.
These documents provide an overview of the different questions asked on each section over the qualification cycle so you can see how a topic has been assessed in different ways.
*You will need your Edexcel Online login to access these as it includes the most recent exam materials.
Just a reminder to use our free Access to Scripts service to view your candidates’ marked exam scripts online or download as a PDF by 11 December 2026.
Providing a rich source of information, you can use this service to help inform future teaching and learning and gives insights and visibility that performance data alone cannot provide. If scripts have been marked ‘traditionally’ (ie not online), you will need to request them, free of charge, by 11 December 2026, via the Post Results section of Edexcel Online as in previous exam series. Note, you will need 'Exam viewer' in your Edexcel Online profile if you want to download candidate scripts. Please ask your Exams Officer if you need this adding to your profile.
Discover more about Access to Scripts, along with FAQs and a step-by-step User Guide.
Find out what it means to be a Pearson Assessment Associate, what the benefits are and how to apply at our free virtual webinar on Wednesday 18 November, 4-4:45pm (GMT).
During the 45-minute event, we’ll cover:
Take your first step towards becoming a Pearson Examiner.
UK Parliament Week (UKPW) is an annual event, spreading the word about what UK Parliament is, what it does and how you can get involved.
This year UKPW is 23-29 November 2026. Sign up will close on 29 November 2026.
If you sign up to take part in UKPW, they'll post a free UKPW kit, which includes:
