Citizenship KS2
20 Key Free Teaching Resources
Crimestoppers Trust
Be Fearless about crime @ Fearless.org – the new youth brand from the crime fighting charity Crimestoppers
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Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home produces free educational resources across the curriculum
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RSPCA
Free teaching resources to help you develop informed, responsible and active citizens.
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Countryside Investigators
Engaging new online resource about the countryside - free, curriculum-linked and ready-to-use
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BP Educational Service
Providing innovative curriculum-linked free teaching resources for primary and secondary at Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4
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The Children’s Society
My Life 4 Schools - classroom activities and lesson plans linked to PSHE/Citizenship and SEAL
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ActionAid
Download free lesson ideas, people’s stories and images to promote global learning
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Sports Relief
Sport Relief’s inspiring early years, primary and secondary learning resources are a great way to help your students understand the challenges that some children in the UK and Africa face every day.
Practical Action
Inspiring resources on sustainability, climate change, renewable energy and global learning
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Walk4Life
Free resources for keystage 2 about walking, with curriculum links to geography, maths, ICT and citizenship. Colourful and inspiring activities!
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PDSA
PDSA provides a free interactive resource, with lesson plans, videos and more.
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PETA Foundation
An extensive range of teaching resources including posters, videos and more
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Eco Schools
Resources For Becoming An Eco-School And Enabling Children To Take Responsibility
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The Other 3 Rs
The Other 3 Rs: Resources For Teaching About Responsibility, Relationships and Respect
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Explore Parliament
Excellent Lesson Plans And Resources For Citizenship With Cross-Curricular Links Related To Parliament
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Electoral Commission
Resources And Teaching Ideas To Help Children Learn About Democracy And Parliament
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BFI
Using Television To Teach Citizenship Guided From The British Film Institute
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The teaching of Citizenship at Key Stage 2 supports children in learning about themselves as individuals with their own ideas. They learn how to make informed choices and take greater responsibility for their behaviour, learning, health and environment. At Key Stage 2, children should understand that their choices and behaviour not only affect themselves, but can have local, national and global influence.
During Key Stage 2, children become more mature and engage with more challenging issues. For example: rights and responsibilities in school, the home and within the wider community; what democracy is and the role of voluntary, community and pressure groups. The consequences of anti-social behaviour, such as bullying and racism, are explored and ways in which this can be responded to.
These websites support children developing skills, knowledge and understanding within the breadth of study in the current National Curriculum programme of study. Many of the resources are suitable for supporting children’s learning in the ‘Preparing to play an active role as citizens’ strand of the curriculum.
