Welcome to your Pearson Edexcel Citizenship Studies February 2025 subject update!
Hello colleagues,
I hope the term is going well and you’re making good progress towards getting ready for the May/June 2025 exam series. Have a lovely half term break when it arrives.
As always, please do get in touch with me if you have any queries or I can help with anything.
Best wishes,
Jenna Wyatt
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 authentification submission are below:
It is now possible to make entries for the Summer 2025 exam series.
The deadline for making entries for the Summer 2025 examination series is 21 February 2025 for UK qualifications.
After these dates late entry fees may be charged. Please note that your exams officer will have their own internal deadlines in order to get the information necessary to make entries.
Entry code for Citizenship is: 1CS0
We are starting our examiner recruitment and are looking for specialists who are able to mark GCSE Citizenship Studies.
This is an invaluable opportunity to develop your knowledge and understanding of the subject area and assessment process, building your confidence as a teacher and assessor.
This month we are running a training event online in order to support teachers who wish to familiarise and/or improve their understanding of assessment practices for Pearson Edexcel's GCSE Citizenship Studies on the following date:
GCSE Citizenship Studies: Assessment and Marking Training- 13 February 2025 at 16:00-17:30 GMT
The training will focus on the longer response questions and there will be a chance to view new candidate responses to reflect the 2024 exam.
Find out more and book your place by searching for Citizenship via our training page:
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The Provisional timetables for Summer 2026 will be available on our Provisional timetables web page from Monday 3rd February.
The Bingham Centre for the rule of law offers a range of resources and opportunities that can support the teaching of GCSE Citizenship Studies. These include things such as:
Access the Bingham Centre resources webpage below:
Bingham Centre resources
With the DfE currently conducting a curriculum and assessment review, ACT are reaching out to important and influential individuals and organisations with a vested interest in the protection and advancement in Citizenship education to become co-signatories of the following letter.
If this is something that interests you sign their open letter to the Secretary of State below:
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