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

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These programmes about gender identity and sexuality will change the relationship between future generations of husbands and wives and there by changing the relationship between child and parent too. At no time did any member of the campaign incite violence or hatred toward LGBT members or make any homophobic comment. 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. and read about us in detail in our No Outsiders parent booklet There are no outsiders at our school because everybody is welcome!

But the lesson plans are just a small part of the ethos, it is the language used in school, the environment that is key to building real inclusion.

There’s genuine concerns of decent citizens worried about the future of their children but Mr Moffat, Parkfield School, Birmingham Council and Ofsted, all seem to be unwilling to listen to the community they serve and seek to downplay what is going own and depict the protesting parents as simply homophobes and Muslim extremists! In Britain society is diverse and the children need to know that diversity exists, even if their religion disagrees with it. They should learn to say no to bullying of all sorts, and practice respect for difference and diversity.

We, as a school, believe in everybody having the same opportunities, enjoying equality to learn and grow as a rounded person. One morning at Embankment station an elderly woman approached a guard to ask why the voice making the announcement over the loudspeaker had changed. The issue that children and young people can can and should alter their bodies according to certain ‘feelings’ has to remain on course to be challenged.

No Outsiders has been in the news, and the protests that took place outside Parkfield Community School drew national attention. Another parent, Fatima Shah, mother of two who has been prominent in the campaign said of her 10-year-old daughter: ‘My child came home and told me am I OK to be a boy? Transgender” is when a person feels different from the body they were born into; we were all assigned a gender at birth and sometimes when we get a bit older we may feel differently about that. Quoted in the Birmingham Mail in February Mariam Ahmed, who has two children at the school, said: ‘My little girl is four, she’s in reception and she came home asking me if it’s ok to be a boy instead of a girl, and has dressed up in her brother’s clothes.

While No Outsiders has been the subject of widely publicised and protests by some this BBC article explains more about this, and how challenging this has been for the schools affected), Andrew has delivered training in numerous schools and the programme has successfully been taught to many children. This scheme was created by Andrew Moffat MBE, who was nominated for the Global Teacher Prize in 2018-19. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.The provision for pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is a key strength of the school. I work for Excelsior Trust and I am confident that every child in Excelsior schools will tell you there are no outsiders in their school, because everyone is welcome.

No Outsiders is part of our Personal, Social, Health and Emotional (PSHE) curriculum and enhances our teaching on relationships as part of our PSHE curriculum.

It began in academia, in thrall to queer theory, and made its first and unsuccessful outing as a teaching resource to counter homophobia. Story books include the award winning " And Tango Made Three", the ever popular " The Family Book" and the thought provoking "The Island". The lesson plan tells teachers to ask the class if the Princess Boy feels like a girl or if he just want to wear dresses. 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. This part of the curriculum links to British Values and Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural learning (SMSC).