Be Kind – Assembly this week

In our assembly this week, we talked to the children about gender stereotypes. This complemented the children’s understanding of the protected characteristic of sex. I started by reading the book, “Dogs don’t do Ballet” to try to get them to understand and thought about the limitations put on the dog in the story.  Firstly, we thought about what a stereotype is and tried to define it and then discussed what a gender stereotype might be. The children were really good at thinking about different examples of gender stereotypes that they could of. We looked at the history of gender stereotypes and where they came from and why they do not have place in society today.  A really interesting assembly and one that sparked lots of interesting discussion.