Archive for April, 2011

Teach First citizenship teacher on ‘Why schools need citizenship’

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Writing on the Guardian’s MortarBoard Blog, Alicia Brown tells how her students at Villiers School in West London have been inspired to campaign for citizenship education. They even joined Democratic Life!

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Democratic Life responds to the National Curriculum Review

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

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 […]

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Citizenship in the press in run up to review deadline

Friday, April 8th, 2011

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 […]

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