Welcome to your Pearson Edexcel Citizenship Studies October 2026 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
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
Over the summer break we have migrated our training recordings to new Youtube playlists. Please find the training playlist below:
You can 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 11 December 2026.
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 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 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.
How clear is your GCSE specification about what to teach, and how deeply?
We’re redesigning how specifications are written and want to hear directly from teachers about what works and what doesn’t. The survey is short, anonymous and takes around 12 minutes — and you can take part whatever exam board you use.
JCQ have now published summer 2026 results on their website for GCSE and A level.
The results provide insights into student entries and attainment in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. JCQ has published results data for 26 years and all the data is on their website to facilitate comparisons.
For the first time JCQ has also published interactive data dashboards for A levels and GCSEs. These dashboards are being piloted with GCSE and A level data in the first instance.
Looking for a stretch and challenge opportunity for your students?
The Constitution Society Schools Competition 2026 invites young people aged 14-19 to create a poster or short video exploring the question: Which milestones have most significantly defined the UK's constitutional journey?
This competition offers an engaging way for students to deepen their understanding of democracy, rights, representation and constitutional change while developing their research and communication skills.
Please check the competition website for eligibility, deadlines and entry requirements
