Everything you need to teach Citizenship across Key Stage 1 in one download — a complete, no-prep year for Years 1–2, ready for statutory primary Citizenship from September 2028. Six half-term units cover all five priority areas — Rules and Fairness (rules & rights), Our Class, Our Community (democracy and a first class vote), All About Money (financial literacy), Staying Safe (staying safe, trusted adults and online safety) and Looking After Our World (climate and environment) — plus the Being a Good Helper active-citizenship capstone.

Every session comes two ways so it fits any timetable: a 10-minute Circle Time for the carpet and a 25–30-minute full lesson, each with its own deck. Each unit also includes a launch assembly, a picture-friendly knowledge organiser and a pupil reflection journal. That’s 36 lessons, 36 Circle Time sessions, 6 assemblies and 78 slide decks — 181 files in total — all in warm, story- and play-based language for five- to seven-year-olds, taught with balance and political impartiality. Buying the year together saves roughly a third versus individual units.

It continues seamlessly into Verity Citizenship KS2 for a joined-up Year 1–6 curriculum, and sits alongside Verity Oracy and Verity Character to build a complete Verity primary pathway — an ideal whole-school or MAT purchase.

Aligned to the statutory Citizenship programmes of study for the National Curriculum in England (Department for Education; © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0; source: ) and informed by the active-citizenship approach associated with the Association for Citizenship Teaching (ACT; © ACT; source: ).

This resource references those approaches as concepts and does not reproduce ACT’s published materials or any programme-of-study text beyond fair citation. Taught with balance and political impartiality, in line with the duties in the Education Act 1996.

Not affiliated with, endorsed by or produced by the Association for Citizenship Teaching or the DfE.

All lesson content, slides, artwork and wording are original to Verity Education. © Verity Education 2026. Licensed for use within the purchasing school.