This November will see the UK’s first ever Parliament Week. It’s a great opportunity to get your MP in to your school to talk with students and staff about the relationship between youth, politics and citizenship. Why not invite them to one of your Citizenship lessons (or even to teach one)? You can then ask […]

Party conference season is fast approaching and with it comes innumerable opportunities for campaigns to gather information and influence debates. We know many of our supporters will be attending party conferences and we’re hoping that you will help spread the word about our campaign to keep citizenship education in the National Curriculum. Whether you’re attending […]

More than 130 teachers and a wide range of organisations met in the British Library yesterday to discuss the future of citizenship and the National Curriculum, at the Association for Citizenship Teaching’s annual conference in London. At Democratic Life we believe teachers and pupils have a key role in influencing the future of the curriculum […]

New report shows that teaching approaches can help young people build their resilience to extremism. There is growing recognition of the need to combat extremisms and develop young people’s resilience to potentially harmful ideologies to prevent them from being radicalised. Teachers and others working with young people have been identified as having a key role […]

It’s been hard work, on top of encouraging people to respond to the review, providing support for same and canvassing opinions for our own response. But now it’s done: we’ve submitted our response, which you can download to read at your leisure. Our response to the Government’s National Curriculum Review (pdf) is informed by our […]

Today’s Times Education Supplement features a comment piece from four members of Democratic Life. David Barrs, headteacher, Anglo European School; Keith Ajegbo, former headteacher, Deptford Green School; Rachael Warwick, headteacher, Didcot Girls’ School and William Atkinson, headteacher, Phoenix High School all discuss why citizenship education is vital to their school and the National Curriculum.  It’s […]

Democratic Life has created a form to make submitting your response to the National Curriculum Review’s Call for Evidence easier. We’ve included our key messages for the Department for Education on citizenship education in this template. If you agree with the statements, keep them in and add comments. If you do not agree with a […]

We want your views to inform our response to the National Curriculum review. By answering just 10 questions about citizenship education, you’ll help us better represent how teachers feel about citizenship education and how citizenship is being taught in schools. Respond to the questionnaire here. We need as many teachers to answer this as possible […]