Teaching and Activities
Children will:
- Understand the term ‘role model’.
- Talk about your role models and the impact they have had on your life.
- Write a dream for the future.
Raising Awareness Days
International Women's Day
International Women’s Day on 8 March is an opportunity to celebrate achievements by women, learn about women throughout history and highlight areas where action is still needed to bring about gender equality.
Session 1 My Role Models
Objectives
Art and Design
- Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
- Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
English
- Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas.
- Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debate.
- Articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes including for expressing feelings.
Music
- Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.
Provided Resources
- Thank you song resource
- Example letter
You Will Need
- Lined paper
- Large white-board
- Sticky labels
Weblinks
International Women's day clip discussing role models -YouTube clip
International Women's day refugee role models -YouTube clip
BFG dream jar instructions from hobbycraft.co.uk
Who is your role model? A mini booklet template from internationalwomensday.com
Session 2 Famous Role Models
Objectives
Art and Design
- Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
English
- Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas.
- Articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes including for expressing feelings.
- Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debate
- Consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others.
History
- Learn about the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements
Teaching and Activities
Children will:
- Understand the global significance of famous female role models.
- Be able to express their opinion about the stories they hear.
- Learn and talk about human rights.
Provided Resources
- Book list
You Will Need
- Playdough
Weblinks
Learn about amazing women from the past from bbc.com
Suffragettes information from bbc.co.uk
What is it like to be a girl in 2018? from bbc.co.uk
What is equality? from bbc.co.uk
Book: 'Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World' by Kate Pankhurst from amazon.co.uk
Malala Yousafzai's life story - YouTube clip
Yousafzai's speech upon receiving a Nobel Peace prize - YouTube clip
Case studies about inspiring women role models from internationalwomensday.com
Images of inspiring women and quotes from internationalwomensday.com
Look at the freedom image using the WB from amnesty.org.uk
Session 3 Stereotypes
Objectives
Art and Design
- Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
English
- Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas.
- Articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes including for expressing feelings.
- Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role-play, improvisations and debate.
- Consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others.
Teaching and Activities
Children will:
- Understand the term ‘stereotype’.
- Describe how boys and girls can be the same/different.
- Begin to express opinions about stereotyping.
Provided Resources
- Boy/girl sentence resource
You Will Need
- Boy/girl templates
- Dressing up clothes for a range of jobs, e.g. doctor, bus driver or pilot.
Weblinks
A range of video resources for International Women's day from internationalwomensday.com
Gender roles: Barnaby bear playing Queens and Kings from bbc.com
Session 4 Campaign for Change
Objectives
Art and Design
- Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
English
- Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas
- Articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes including for expressing feelings.
- Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role-play, improvisations and debate.
History
- Learn about the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements.
Teaching and Activities
Children will:
- Learn about Emmeline Pankhurst.
- Create an Emmeline Pankhurst fact file.
- Learn about the suffragettes.
Provided Resources
This session does not need any provided resources.
You Will Need
- Emmeline and the Plucky Pup’ by Megan Rix
- Photocopy extracts out of the book Emmeline and the Plucky Pup
- Fact file resource
- Voting station resources, e.g. recycled shoe box to make a ballet box, pens, area that children can vote
Weblinks
Emmeline Pankhurst - information video from bbc.co.uk
Book: Emmeline Plucky Pup by Megan Rix from amaozon.co.uk
Sister Suffragette's song and lyrics from stlyrics.com
International Women's day reading list from internationalwomensday.com
Information about Emmeline Pankhurst from kids.kiddle.co
How to vote -YouTube clip