October 2024 Citizenship subject update
Welcome to your Pearson Edexcel Citizenship Studies October 2024 subject update!
Hello colleagues,
As we approach the October half term break, I wanted to take the opportunity to share some updates, useful resources and CPD training. I hope the first half term of the academic year has been smooth so far and from everyone within the Citizenship Studies team, we wish you a restful break (when it finally arrives!)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,
Jenna Wyatt
Citizenship Studies Subject Advisor
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 authentication submission are below:
Taking-Citizenship-Action-form.docx (live.com)
Taking Citizenship Action Form | Pearson qualifications
Citizenship Action Guidance
For further support around Citizenship Action, we have the following guide available to centres:
GCSE Citizenship Studies: Guide to Citizenship Action
Assessment Services pre-exam and post-exam qualification support events
We’re delighted to share that we’re hosting two new webinars on our Professional Development Academy focusing specifically on pre-exam support and post-exam support.
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Just like our Spotlight on Assessment series for Senior Leaders, these sessions zoom in on the resources and guidance you need for effective teaching and continuous professional development (CPD). Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about all the support available to you, engage directly with us, and share your ideas on how we can better support you.
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Assessment Services Pre-Exam Qualifications Support- 21 October 2024 at 16:00-17:00 GMT
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Our new Qualifications Support Portal - now live!
We’re excited to introduce our enhanced Qualifications Support Portal, designed to make getting help quicker and easier than ever.
A new contact-us journey enables you to connect quickly with our support teams in the way that suits you; via live-chat for real-time assistance, or webform, as well as traditional phone or email routes. You can use your Pearson Portal (Edexcel Online) credentials to access secure personalised support even faster, and view your existing cases.
Our comprehensive support article library has also been restructured with sections specific to teachers, as well as stronger search functions, to resolve your own queries quickly and easily.
Read our getting started support article.
Pearson Support Portal: Getting Started,
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Access to scripts
Our free Access to Scripts service allows you to view your candidates’ marked exam scripts online or download as a PDF (with candidate permission). It is available from results day until the 13 December 2024.
Providing a rich source of information, you can use this service to help make decisions about requesting a review of marking, but it can also 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 13 December 2024, via the Post Results section of Edexcel Online as in previous exam series.
Enrichment opportunities
UK Parliament week
UK Parliament Week (UKPW) is an annual event, spreading the word about what Parliament is, what it does and how you can get involved.
It runs from 18th-24th November and there are a range of resources available to support teachers including information sheets, videos and activities.
You can access these at the links below:
Home | UK Parliament Week
Resources | UK Parliament Week
ACT upcoming events
The Association for Citizenship Teaching have a range of free and paid for events available to support GCSE Citizenship teachers. Below I have included links to their events page and a few key events for teaching at GCSE:
LIVE: Achieving better results at GCSE Citizenship Studies - 15 October, 5pm
Teaching Citizenship for racial equity: Part 1 - 11 November, 5pm
Sustainability and Human Rights: what is the connection? - 20 November, 5pm
Subject advisor
Jenna Wyatt
Citizenship
