In Year 7 Citizenship is taught through the Personal Development Curriculum. Other departments are also building citizenship knowledge through their curriculums.

Topic	Key Content
Rights and equalities: The precious liberties enjoyed by the citizens of the United Kingdom	The Five British Values What is Citizenship? What are Human Rights? How have human Rights developed? How can we be human rights defenders?

The aim is for students to gain deeper conceptual knowledge of citizenship around:

Democracy and Government

• To have an in-depth understanding of how democracy has shaped and evolved over time, in. the UK and across the world.

Rights and Responsibilities

• To have awareness and understanding of rights and the role Citizenship plays in creating responsible citizens.

Fairness and Justice

• To understand the purpose of the justice system and be able to consider appropriate a range of appropriate punishment whilst understanding how laws are shaped and enforced.

Active Citizenship

• To provide pupils with knowledge, skills and understanding to prepare them to play a full and active part in society whilst equipping pupils with the skills and knowledge to explore political and social issues critically, to weigh evidence, debate and make reasoned arguments.

Year 7 End Points

• Be able to identify the Five British Values
• Be able to identify the features of a democracy
• Explain the purpose of why democracy is useful to society
• Be able to identify how human rights have developed an who protects them
• Be able to identify what could be done to change things in communities and plan some action
• Be able to take part decision-making activities with others on citizenship issues, in contexts that are familiar to them
• Be able to describe some of the groups and communities they belong to and recognise that people in their communities are different