Citizenship Challenge
A Citizenship resource for Pupil Referral Units (PRUs).
Citizenship Challenge is a free resource designed to support the teaching of citizenship education at key stages 3 and 4 in Pupil Referral Units. While created specifically for use in Pupil Referral Units, it will also be found useful in mainstream and other forms of education.
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Each section has been produced as a pdf file:
- Introduction
- Unit 1 - Citizens and Citizenship
- Unit 2 - Society and the Good Life
- Unit 3 - Politics and Power
- Unit 4 - Family and Home Life
- Unit 5 - Crime and Punishment
- Unit 6 - Neighbourhood and Environment
- Unit 7 - Shopping and Money
What is it for?
The aim of Citizenship Challenge is to help students to think about, discuss and find out more about what it is to be a citizen today – encouraging them to connect with society and feel that they are citizens in their own right, with rights and responsibilities and the ability to make a difference both to their own lives and to the lives of others.
What does it consist of?
Citizenship Challenge consists of seven teaching units:
- Citizens and citizenship
- Society and the good life
- Politics and power
- Family and home life
- Crime and punishment
- Neighbourhood and environment
- Shopping and money
Each teaching unit comprises seven different learning activities and is mapped on to requirements of the National Curriculum programmes of study for citizenship at key stages 3 and 4.
How do you use it?
The learning activities in Citizenship Challenge have been devised so that they may be used singly and in almost any order. However, they are likely to be more effective when grouped together and linked to other learning activities – both in the classroom and in the life of the Pupil Referral Unit as a whole and its links with the local community.
It is crucial that they are not implemented too rigidly. The notes and instructions that make up each activity are meant only to provide a broad framework – of aims, topic to be studied, questions to discuss, knowledge to be introduced, etc. It is essential that these are adapted to meet the needs and interests of the students concerned – whether by choosing different stimulus material, adopting more colloquial language or editing the accompanying student resources.
Citizenship Challenge has been developed by the Citizenship Foundation with funding from a charitable trust, enabling it to be used by teachers free of charge.
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