10G have worked really hard to understand what gender stereotypes means. We talked about what jobs boys have and what jobs girls have. Some of us said that girls are nurses and boys are builders. Then we had a look at some pictures and saw that both men and woman can be nurses and builders. We did really well with beginning to understand that both men and woman can do the same job and we shouldn’t assume whether it’s a man or woman just because of what job they have. We then read the story of ‘Charlie the Firefighter. At the beginning of the story we thought that Charlie was a man because of the name and that a firefighter was a mans job. As the story progressed we learned that the name Charlie was gender neutral. We then talked about gender neutral names like Alex and Sam. We then talked about a firefighters job and that it can be a man or woman’s job, it doesn’t matter! Remember 10G you can be anything you want to be! 
 

10G challenge stereotypes