This page lists what we actually have for Edexcel GCSE Citizenship Studies 1CS0. It is built from the live activities, so it is accurate on the day you read it.
The half that does not date
Every other board and subject page on this site can be written once. Citizenship cannot, because a good part of the course is whatever is happening.
So these activities are built on the part that holds still. The dates that appear across the eighteen are 1215, 1945, 1948, 1950, 1998, 2010, 2016 and 2020: Magna Carta, the founding of the UN, the Universal Declaration, the European Convention, the Human Rights Act, the Equality Act, the referendum and the UK's departure. Nothing more recent than 2020 is named, and no serving politician is named at all.
That is not because more recent material would be harder to write. It is because a revision activity naming a minister is wrong within the year, and a student revising from something wrong is worse off than a student revising from nothing.
The half we do not carry, and will not
A Citizenship course needs current examples. A campaign running now, a case in the news, an argument the class actually disagrees about. None of that is here.
It is the part of the subject a person in the room does well and a stored activity does badly, so the split is deliberate rather than a gap we intend to close. What it buys you is time: the framework is the slow, repetitive half to teach and revise, and it is the half that can be handed over.
If you plan a year of revision, plan for the framework to come off this site and the examples to come off you. Where that sits in a whole year is covered in the GCSE revision year.
Themes and papers line up
Five themes, with nothing beneath them.
- Paper 1 is Themes A, B and C, one section each.
- Paper 2 takes Theme E as Section A, and Theme D across Sections B and C.
For Paper 1 that means revising a theme is revising a section, which is rarer than it sounds and worth using. A single one of these activities maps onto exactly one part of one paper, so a student who is weak in Section B has a heading to work under rather than a course to reread.
Coverage matches it: four activities each for Themes A, B, C and D, and two for Theme E.
Taking Citizenship Action
Theme E is the student's own action, examined in Paper 2 Section A, and it is the one place this page has a limit worth stating plainly.
Two activities cover preparing for it: planning, gathering viewpoints, delivering, evaluating afterwards. What they cannot do is carry out the action, which is the whole point of it. A student who has done nothing has nothing to write about in Section A, and no amount of revision changes that.
Finding the right one
The lists below group by classroom use, worked out from what each activity contains. Homework is not a heading, because all eighteen suit it and a heading holding everything separates nothing.
Sixteen of the eighteen ask students to set out an argument rather than only pick an answer, which follows a subject where a view has to be justified. The three activities embedded below are playable here without an account.
Using them
None of it needs marking. For a short cycle aimed at a group who have fallen behind on the framework, see revision intervention a department can sustain, and for the activities themselves with the recall goal spelled out, see ready-to-run revision activities. To put several in front of one class in order, build a sprint.
Everything else we have, by subject and board, is on the revision pages.
What this page does not do
It carries no current affairs, by design, and that is half of Citizenship.
It cannot do the citizenship action, only the preparation around it.
It does not track anything, so there is no completion list to check.