Blog by Tag: Equality

This week Willow class looked at gender stereotypes and thought about what ideas we already had about gender, maybe without realising.  We tied this into looking at how this affects the jobs and hobbies we think people can have due to their gender.

We explored which stereotypes we were affected…

This week 8R have been doing some super work on gender stereotyping and how everybody can be different and how we can make sure we talk to people in the best way.

We did some work in small groups and looked at the different ways people can be different. We talked about how our families,…

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…

On Wednesday in Rowan class we listened to the story ‘dogs don’t do ballet’. A lovely story about a dog who wants to become a ballerina but everyone keeps says dog don’t do ballet. But, we discovered in our story that dogs do ballet. 

We discussed what jobs we would like to do when we are…

This week Beech class have begun our topic- Toys. We have explored wheeled toys. Throughout the week we have made wheeled tracks, had our own Beech class car wash and explored the rhyme 'Wheels on the bus'. While exploring all of our lovely activities we have been focusing on being kind to our…

Chestnut Class’s theme this week was all about ‘Diwali and toys’. We have worked so hard again challenging ourselves learning numbers by singing songs. Developing our writing skills through mark making. Looking at different shapes and sorting big / little cars or putting cars on, under or next…

This week in 8G, we’ve been thinking about different types of jobs. We started off by reading a story about Charlie the firefighter. We then took turns to choose a job card, before sorting the cards into “men’s jobs” and “women’s jobs”. We had some fantastic conversations about some of the jobs,…

This week 9G have been looking at gender stereotypes. We read a story about a Daddy Seahorse who looks after the eggs until they hatched. We talked about how it isn’t always mummy’s that do things for you, daddy’s do just as much!
 

We then took part in two activities, one where we chose…

We used our 1:1 iPads and the Padlet app to answer some questions about stereotypes.The first thing we did was send Mrs Clarke a picture of a girls toy and then a boys toy.

We looked at some different jobs including, nurse, beautician, electrician, footballer and we wrote on our iPads who…

This week at school we are thinking about challenging gender stereotypes. In 7A we have been thinking about gender stereotypes in terms of job roles. We read the story “Charlie The Firefighter” and discussed whether we thought Charlie would be a male or female firefighter. Most learners thought…

Today we looked at challenging gender stereotypes. We first of all read a story about Charlie the firefighter and found out that she was a girl even though we at first thought that she would be a boy. We then looked at different jobs using a colourful semantics  resource on the book creator app on…

Today Sycamore have enjoyed a fun-filled day learning about Diwali.

Sycamore have been learning different facts about Diwali. We found out that:

• Diwali is a very important festival celebrated by many people around the world.
• Diwali is celebrated by Hindu’s but can be celebrated by…