Welcome to your Pearson Edexcel Citizenship Studies October 2025 subject update!
Hello colleagues,
We know how busy things get during this term, so this month’s Citizenship update is all about making teaching manageable. You’ll find practical tips, useful reminders, and ready-to-use support to help you plan with confidence and teach with impact.
Best wishes,
Jenna Wyatt
Citizenship Subject Advisor
Join us in the Autumn term for our online training event which will provide feedback and insights on the Summer 2025 exam series for GCSE Citizenship.
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.
04 November 2025 at 16:00-17:00 GMT
This on demand video is designed for teachers who wish to familiarise and/or improve their understanding of assessment practices for GCSE Citizenship Studies.
This will enable you to mark mock assessments in school more confidently, as well as to understand the marking of candidate responses from live assessments.
We’re excited to announce the launch of our first teacher group for those teaching
our GCSE Citizenship qualification. Created to give Citizenship teachers a private, professional space to discuss teaching and learning ideas and ask general questions, the community is run by myself.
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.
You can also use our free Access to Scripts service to view your candidates’ marked exam scripts online or download as a PDF. It is available from results day until the 12 December 2025.
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 12 December 2025, 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 from results day. 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.
Expert-led session: Effective racial equity in the curriculum
16 October 2025 | 4:00pm | Online
Join ACT for an interactive session on embedding racial equity in schools. Hear from experts Amit Puni and Michelle Codrington-Rodgers, and Zainab Ali, Chair of the AQA Student Advisory Group, as they explore real life experiences, practical approaches, and discuss questions on policy, curriculum, and leadership.
How to use the ACTive Citizenship Toolkits
14 November 2025 | 4:00pm | Online
Join ACT for an interactive workshop exploring how Active Citizenship Investigations can be carried out in both primary and secondary settings. Led by Naomi Kennedy, with expert input from Consultant Advisory Teachers Kelly Allchin and Hayley Harris, this session will provide practical tools, classroom-ready strategies, and fresh ideas to build confidence in delivering investigations with pupils of all ages.
G-EPIC: Empowering Girls’ Voices: Building Confidence in Politics
28 November 2025 | 10:00am–4:00pm | University of Roehampton | Free event
Join ACT and Professor Bryony Hoskins for a one-day CPD event introducing the G-EPIC programme—a five-lesson sequence proven to build girls’ political confidence and challenge stereotypes. Teachers will gain practical training, hear from peers, and receive a CPD certificate from Roehampton University. Travel costs will be reimbursed.
