Free KS3 Citizenship and British Values discussion lesson, plus the ten talk protocols that run through the whole line. A sample from Verity Talking Points — twelve ready-to-teach debates that cover fundamental British values and oracy at the same time.

Oracy runs across the revised national curriculum from September 2028. Taught alone it becomes a skills course pupils forget; taught through content worth arguing about, it becomes how departments already work.

THE SAMPLE DISCUSSION — should sixteen-year-olds be allowed to vote?

A live constitutional question, about the class in front of you. You get the original stimulus, a question ladder running from accessible to genuinely hard, the case for and against written at equal strength, key vocabulary, sentence stems, teacher notes and an international variant.

It also carries a full Teacher Briefing, which is what makes this usable outside your own specialism: five minutes of prep if you are covering at short notice, the background you need, dated key facts, where the experts genuinely disagree, and the questions pupils ask that catch teachers out — including why the voting age was 21 until 1969, what Scotland and Wales already do, and where the current Bill has got to.

THE TEN PROTOCOLS

Think–Pair–Share, Talk Trio, Silent Discussion, Four Corners, Fishbowl, Concentric Circles, Diamond Nine, Structured Debate, Prepared Position and Response, Talk Detectives. Each with the practical detail that makes it work.

WHAT’S INSIDE

Pack overview · one complete Talking Point with Teacher Briefing · ten protocol cards · subject background and further reading · references and acknowledgements.

If it works in your classroom, the full pack has twelve: KS3 Citizenship & British Values | 12 Discussion & Debate Lessons.

© Verity Education 2026. Single-school licence — use freely with your own classes and colleagues; please do not redistribute or resell. All stimulus material is original; no third-party content is reproduced. Aligned to the Oracy Skills Framework (© Voice 21 and the University of Cambridge, 2018) but not reproducing it. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Voice 21, Oracy Cambridge, the DfE, Ofsted, the IB or Cambridge International. Full acknowledgements are included in the download.