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Safe internet guidelines
For Safer Internet Day 2023, Lifting Limits wrote some guidelines for parents and teachers around online influencers and primary-aged children.
Please refer to our blog for more context behind the guidelines.
Resources for schools
Please find below some examples from the Resource Pack we provide to schools participating in our Gender Equality in Schools programme. The Pack contains 80+ lesson plans across all subjects and key stages, as well as assemblies, discussion cards and other activities for primary aged children.
The lessons and activities below are most impactful when implemented as part of a whole school approach and accompanied by Lifting Limits’ training.
If you’d like to find out more about our programme, please see What We Do, or just get in touch.
Assemblies and discussion cards
International Women’s Day 2024
The following resources were put together in conjunction with Centenary Action, June 2023.
Assemblies about Women in Politics
- Assembly 1 presentation
- Assembly 2 presentation
- Assembly guidance notes
- Accompanying video from Helen Pankhurst
- Accompanying video from Caroline Nokes MP
Further assemblies and discussion cards
Lesson plans
- EYFS: The Paperbag Princess
- KS1: History lesson – Mary Seacole
- KS1: History lesson presentation – Mary Seacole
- KS2: Geography lesson – climate change
- KS2: Geography lesson presentation – climate change
Resources for families
Gender Stereotype Detective Activities
These Gender Stereotype Detective Activities are for use at home and have been adapted from similar activities for schools that provided in the School Resource Pack as part of our programme.
The activities encourage children to challenge gender stereotyping in their home environment: in books they read, TV they watch and language they hear. They will also help your child’s critical thinking skills, when they start to think about the stereotypical roles in which men and women, and girls and boys, are often shown.
The activities are aimed at 7-12 year olds but you’ll know your own child – younger children may enjoy them too, especially if they have older brothers and sisters to do them with. We suggest all the activities can be done as part of Literacy, English or PSHE. We recommend you read our Guide for Families before getting started on these activities, and have it to hand to come back to whenever you need to. If you don’t have enough books at home for activities 1, 2 and 3, you can do them with children’s TV shows, films or well-known fairy stories instead.
Each of the activities below is also available in these languages
Aim: To investigate gender stereotyping in fiction (If you don’t have enough books at home you can do this activity with children’s TV shows, films or well-known fairy stories instead)
Suggested time: about 45 minutes
Aim: To investigate gender stereotyping in non-fiction books – if you have a range available at home
Suggested time: 30-45 minutes (dependent on number of books you have available)
Language Detective
This could be combined with Activity 6, Environment Detective
Aim: To investigate the use of sexist or gendered language (language that makes assumptions about men or women, or boys and girls)
Suggested time: 10 minutes at the start to introduce the activity and talk about gendered language. The activity itself can then be done over the course of a week.
Environment Detective
This could be combined with Activity 5, Language Detective
Aim: To investigate the extent to which gender stereotypes appear in children’s immediate environment
Suggested time: 10 minutes at the start to introduce the activity. The activity itself can then be done over the course of a week.
TV Detective
This could be combined with Activity 8, TV Adverts Detective
Aim: To investigate the use of sexist or gendered language in TV programmes and how characters might be shown using gender stereotypes
Suggested time: 10 minutes at the start to introduce the activity and talk about gendered language and gender stereotypes. The activity itself can then be done over a week.
Additional notes for parents: this activity is for TV shows that are specifically made for children aged 2-12, whether on channels like CBBC, Disney, Cartoon Network, Nick Jr, CBeebies, or on streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hopster, but it can also work for TV shows and YouTube videos that older children might be watching. You’ll know your child and what they like or are allowed to watch!
TV Detective – Adverts
This could be combined with Activity 7, TV Detective
Aim: To investigate the use of sexist or gendered language in adverts and the extent to which gender stereotypes appear in TV adverts
Suggested time: 10 minutes at the start to introduce the activity and talk about gendered language and gender stereotypes. The activity itself can then be done over a week.
Additional notes for parents: this activity can be done at the same time as the TV detectives activity, but it’s also worth doing just with adverts. We know that children see fewer TV ads than they used to, with most children watching video on demand and streaming catch up TV. But children will see adverts on YouTube, there are adverts for toys and healthy food on the commercial children’s TV channels in the UK, and there are adverts on other channels around family entertainment (e.g. if watching TV as a family on Saturday nights)
Did you know that since June 2019, harmful gender stereotypes in adverts have been banned? Advertisements “must not include gender stereotypes that are likely to cause harm, or serious or widespread offence.”
Did you also know, that since 2017, advertising of food and drink that is high in fat, salt and sugar has been banned in children’s media?