ACT guidance to support revised National Curriculum for Citizenship 2014

ACT has developed a range of guidance and materials to support the revised National Curriculum 2014. The materials include:

• A Big Picture for Outstanding Citizenship - a powerpoint presentation with audio commentary to help you design your curriculum and develop high quality citizenship provision
• 'What is Citizenship' - a diagram to help explore the nature of citizenship in your school
• Citizenship Programmes of Study with guidance and explanatory notes - the statutory teaching requirements explained to help you plan your curriculum
• Planning and observation tool for outstanding Citizenship lessons - this tool will help you review and improve the quality of your teaching and evaluate Citizenship lessons
• Topic guides -  to help you get started teaching the revised Programmes of Study and include links to helpful resources

1. The Electoral System and Political Parties
2. The Constitution and Political System
3. Active Citizenship and Volunteering
4. Finance, the economy and money
5. Justice, the legal system and international law

Curriculum briefings on Citizenship and SMSC and on Assessment and Progression in Citizenship are also available.

The DFE Expert Group for Citizenship has also published a resources digest which includes a range of teaching resources for different topics in the revised NC 2014 that are recommended by members of the group.

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