No Outsiders in Our School: Teaching the Equality Act in Primary Schools

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This is also another appropriate moment to thank all our teachers for their dedication and exceptional work, day after day, for our children and our society, in their unique role. He said, "Whenever you see an opportunity of opposing oppression or discrimination, please do it, please try. So, as well as teaching children about LGBT they should also learn that other differences are also welcome and protected: ‘different ethnicities, genders, gender identities, religions, ages and abilities. Since less than 10% of the population is LGBT, schools should be presenting heterosexuality for over 90% of the time.

It’s legal for them to drink (when they are 18), but there is so much teaching on how it’s bad for you.Elizabeth has also taught on education courses in HE and presented at national and international conferences.

Only when Bailey meets an older girl, who offers to help make a dress, is Bailey’s dream of wearing a dress made reality. Mum told the bride that at a wedding, all the bridesmaids should wear the same thing and her daughter should wear a dress.The resource includes 5 lesson plans for every primary school year group (EYFS- Y6) based upon a selection of 35 picture books. No Outsiders is a scheme that was introduced to Governors and parents at our school in 2019/2020 and it involves the use of age appropriate story books (see below for a list of the books we use) to teach about seven of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

has led team members to make repeated claims that this project in not about sex or desire – and that it is therefore not about bodies. There was no discrimination or teasing whatever at my primary school, and we did have school friends who were different. I can’t tell you what it feels like to be “a woman” any more than any man could tell me what it feels like to be “a man”.The columnist and Labour Party member Owen Jones weighed in expressing what became a standard reaction: ‘The parents at this Birmingham school are trying to stop lessons educating pupils about the existence of gay people. One commented if she made the niece wear something she was not comfortable in, she would not enjoy being a bridesmaid and this would affect the bride's happiness knowing that one of her brides was unhappy. The community in Alum Rock like many other communities across Britain holds a certain moral position on sexual relationships which are traditional and perfectly legal. No Outsiders enables children to recognise and embrace the diversity around them in preparation for global citizenship. On March 5 th, they gave the school a clean bill of health noting only that more effort should be put into engaging the parents and explaining the curriculum.