Citizenship in Schools

Barclays New Futures has helped raise dramatically raise awareness of Citizenship and its effective teaching in schools. This assistance has not only been through the ten year £10m sponsorship its self, but also through the production of citizenship materials and the partnering with the DfES to launch citizenship into the national Curriculum.

Year-on-Year Citizenship information
Every year Kallaway, working with CSV and Barclays New Futures evaluator Carolyn Skilling develops citizenship handouts for schools to help teach elements of the subject. Examples include:

 Environment
 Healthy Living
  World of Work
  Opportunities for All
 Special Partners

The Barclays New Futures handouts are used by schools all over the UK to bring citizenship to life and benefit from the hundreds of successful projects carried out by schools across the country.

Partnering with the Department for Education and Skills to launch citizenship
The DfES came to Kallaway for help with launching citizenship into the National Curriculum in 2002. Kallaway developed a partnership between Barclays and the DfES that would enable schools across the UK to easily access the citizenship experience generated through the sponsorship.

Kallaway developed Barclays branded teachers packs, providing comprehensive information on citizenship, and helpful ideas on the teaching of the subject, how to approach community groups and the experiences of schools involved in the Barclays New Futures sponsorship.

Kallaway also organised a Barclays sponsored conference on 'Citizenship: From the Classroom to the Boardroom', the event sought to bring both the business and education sector together to discover how each could benefit from closer working partnerships.

The activity enabled the DfES to position Citizenship as a vital element of young people's education and to highlight the mutually beneficial role business can play in supporting active citizenship across society. The conference was attended by over 150 guests drawn from education and FTSE 100 companies. Speakers included Stephen Timms, Minister for CSR; Sir Tom Shebbeare, the Chief Executive of The Prince's Trust and Dr. Mary Harris, Head of National Grid Transco Foundation.

To support the launch of citizenship and the conference, Kallaway worked with The Independent to produce two supplements on citizenship in education both in the classroom and in the community.

Read the Launching Citizenship

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