Welcome to your Pearson Edexcel Citizenship Studies September 2025 subject update!
Hello colleagues,
Welcome back to school!
We hope your 2025 academic year is off to a great start. We want to share this update which includes professional development events and post-results support to enhance your classroom experience. Whether you’re new or experienced, our resources are here to support your success. Let’s make this year fantastic together!
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.
Our Getting Started Guides are essential for any teacher new to delivering the course, or experienced teachers looking to refresh their knowledge of the key documents and resources available to support the teaching of each of our qualification.
Grade boundaries identify marks required to achieve each grade. They are set for each exam series to ensure answers of the same quality achieve the same grade across series. These vary year on year due to a range of factors and this is the same for all subjects. This is expected as each paper is looked at individually based on its questions/answers and the cohort that year.
Grade boundaries for each paper are set by senior examiners who check the quality of students’ responses at key boundaries.
You can see grade boundaries for each exam series on our website by selecting the appropriate qualification:
The notional grade boundary document:
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.
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 24-30 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
🏙️ New Towns of the Future – Competition for Years 9–12
The House of Lords Built Environment Committee is inviting pupils in Years 9–12 to shape the future of England’s new towns. To mark its inquiry into the Government’s proposals, the Committee has launched the Built Environment Committee Prize.
Pupils are asked to answer:
“What should the next generation of new towns look like?”
Entries can be written, visual, or a mix of both – up to 500 words or four A4 pages. Topics might include housing, jobs, infrastructure, and community design. Originality and realism are key.
Winners and runners-up from each year group will be invited to a prize presentation in Parliament. Their ideas will help inform the next phase of the inquiry.
Deadline: Tuesday, 30 September 2025.
Details on how to enter can be found below:
