Year 7 · Citizenship · beta

What are our identities and our communities?

This unit introduces pupils to the concepts of identities and communities and how these change over time and contexts.

This is an attributed Oak National Academy lesson sequence, not a completed or academically approved DASKEREL course. Supporting transcripts may depend on video, images, practical equipment or teacher explanation. Follow each lesson’s supervision guidance. For religious education and RSHE, follow the school’s syllabus, policy and safeguarding procedures.

This Oak index uses an earlier export and lists 3 source lessons. DASKEREL has 6 original lessons for this unit, including 3 linked to source lessons absent from that export. Read the full DASKEREL unit.

Prior knowledge

  • Pupils know that their actions affect themselves and others, to care about other people's feelings and to try to see things from their points of view.
  • Pupils know to recognise and challenge stereotypes.
  • Pupils know the differences and similarities between people arise from a number of factors, including cultural, ethnic, racial and religious diversity, gender and disability.
  • Pupils appreciate the range of national, regional, religious and ethnic identities in the United Kingdom.

Source curriculum references

  • The roles played by public institutions and voluntary groups in society, and the ways in which citizens work together to improve their communities.

Oak source metadata. DASKEREL has not independently verified school-level coverage.

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