Please note: This article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated.

Citizenship education in primary schools asks children to dig deeply into issues, to gain skills to become advocates and champions for the views of themselves and others and to be confident to take action on issues that matter to them.

Local history should provide an opportunity for children to undertake authentic investigations that interest them and take action on things that concern them. In this piece the Association of Citizenship Teachers suggest two examples of how trainee citizenship education teachers and partner organisations are tackling this opportunity in the revised primary curriculum. The context is a course at Middlesex University - Trent Park.