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A Parent-Powered Movement

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A Parent-Powered Movement

PSHE / Safeguarding / Pastoral support             

Enhance your current PSHE/RSE schemes of work

- Encourage your current PSHE provider to include more on harmful gender norms and misogyny

- Embedding discussions on harmful gender norms and misogyny into current PSHE/RSE lessons
   *** free resources and lesson plans listed below ***

- Get external support to deliver tailored lessons

Digital Literacy & Online Safety

Equipping students to navigate and challenge gendered harms online.

  • Integrate gender perspectives into critical thinking about online spaces including peer pressure, and digital citizenship

  • Explore how gender stereotypes and misogyny spread online and how to respond (avoid, alert, or challenge them safely)

Reporting, Response & Safeguarding Systems (connected to 1: School leadership and Policy)

  • Developing confidential and accessible reporting mechanisms with clear guidance for staff

  • Application of consist recording, monitoring, and and restorative follow-up practices including communicating outcomes

  • Review of incidents included in Senior Leadership Team meetings

Pastoral Support & Student Wellbeing

  • Providing targeted pastoral support for those affected, signposting to external support services where needed

  • Teaching practical strategies for bystander intervention (how to safely challenge or support peers)

  • Making a school culture where adults and children challenging “everyday” behaviours (e.g. sexist language, teasing) before they escalate

  • Reinforcing expectations consistently across PSHE and pastoral systems

Focuses on embedding age-appropriate learning within PSHE/RSE and wider safeguarding and pastoral systems. It involves equipping students with the knowledge and skills to recognise, report, and respond safely as well as be positive advocates and allies, supported by accessible reporting mechanisms, restorative approaches, and teacher resources that encourage open discussion and reflection.

The Children’s Society has recently made its Beyond Gender Stereotypes (BGS) programme freely available for primary schools. It is part of their wider Lifting Limits programme and is designed for children aged 7–11 (Years 3–6). The programme helps children recognise and challenge restrictive gender stereotypes and encourages children, whatever their gender, to feel able to pursue their interests, express themselves and develop healthy, respectful relationships.

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The resources are designed to be used as part of PSHE and include:

  • free, self-guided online training for school staff;

  • three lessons for Years 3–4 and four lessons for Years 5–6;

  • detailed lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations and downloadable classroom resources;

  • guidance for teachers and school leaders; and

  • resources to help schools engage parents and carers.
     

The resources can be accessed here: https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/information/professionals/lifting-limits/beyond-gender-stereotypes


Other free lesson plans
Let Toys Be Toys - Lesson plans provided for Year 1 - 6
National Education Union - Breaking the Mould - Primary teaching resources to tackle gender stereotypes
Teach Gender Equality - Free Lesson Plans - EYFS, KS1 and KS 2
Voice 21 Oracy Programme and Talking about Misogyny resource for teachers

Resources:
PSHE Association: Misogyny, online influencers and the PSHE curriculum

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