BSA/GSA – Preventative education with an EDI lens

• Date: January 29, 2024
• Time: 09:30 – 13:30
• Cost: BSA Full / GSA Member – £150, Non-member – £300
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• Platform: Zoom (online)

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Keeping Children Safe in Education highlights the importance of preventative education. It prepares pupils for life beyond school and is crucial in creating safe cultures where sexism, racism, violence and harassment are not tolerated. This joint BSA/GSA conference will focus on key issues and to ensure preventative education is inclusive and contributes to safe and supportive school environments. Our four expert speakers will use their passion and experience to provide delegates with advice, strategies and opportunities to reflect on current practice. The sessions will focus on keeping inclusion at the heart of preventative education.

Programme:

09:30 – 10:20

Anti-racism education

This session, run by Inclusion Labs, will focus on how we can support all members of the school community to develop their own racial literacy. Preventative education has an important role to play in ensuring an anti-racist culture in our settings. Inclusion Labs’s mission ‘Turning intent into action’ is key in terms of creating a culture where children from all backgrounds can thrive.

• Speaker: Temi Akindele Barker, Inclusion Labs

10:20 – 11:10

Relationships and Sex Education with an EDI lens

To be truly excellent, a school’s RSE curriculum and its delivery must be accessible to all pupils. Inspection frameworks make clear that pupils with additional vulnerabilities need to be able to access the RSE curriculum. It Happens Education works with a wide range of schools to support them deliver high quality RSE  which is inclusive and non-judgemental.

• Speaker: Amy Forbes-Robertson, It Happens Education

11:10 – 11:45

Break

11:45 – 12:35

End Sexism in Schools – What can we do to rebalance the curriculum?

The End Sexism in Schools grassroots campaign aims to end sexism in schools and to support girls and boys to fulfil their potential without gendered expectations, in a safe and supportive school environment. We believe that schools should be an environment without sexism, where pupils are taught a gender balanced curriculum, free from gender-limiting stereotypes and expectations and free from sexual harassment and violence. Research conducted by ESIS shows that women are under-represented in the curriculum.  This session will detail the findings of ESIS research and explore what we as educators can to do increase the visibility of women.

• Speaker: Katrina Handford, Head, Kent College Pembury

School Case study

• Speaker: Jo Dunphy, EDI Lead at Cheltenham Ladies College

12:35 – 1:20

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Speakers:

Temi Akindele Barker, Inclusion Labs

Temi Akindele Barker began her career as a consultant in Legal Executive Search, both in the UK and internationally. She is now founder of Inclusion Labs, an impact organisation that partners with schools to build more inclusive communities. She is passionate about developing mission driven concepts and at the heart of Inclusion Labs school programme is getting them to interrogate who they are and what they are doing today and what will get them closer to who and where they want to be tomorrow.

Temi believes a collaborative approach to bold ideas can empower anyone to take on society’s biggest and most pressing problems. Whilst we do not place a limit on the range of issues from social justice to education her focus is centred on young people and how any of these issues affect their ability to thrive. This is why her launch programme focuses where there is potential for the greatest impact where you find the most young people collectively – in schools.

Amy Forbes-Robertson, It Happens Education

Amy Forbes-Robertson (BA MPhil PGCE QTS) is a qualified teacher (KS3 & KS4), a published author and Founding Director of It Happens Education. Amy is out & about delivering an array of our work in schools. She is also a regular speaker at conferences and events for the likes of IAPS, GSA & HMC.

Amy leads on our consultancy work for programmes, resources and projects with organisations such as Channel 4, BBC Teach, Operation Ouch & The University of Westminster.

For the last 20 years, Amy has worked in and around education. During this time, Amy has interacted with young people and their parents, carers and teachers; as a volunteer, a community outreach worker, in youth work, as a school governor and also as an accredited trainer for Cambridge Assessment International where she has delivered teacher training both online and in international educational establishments. Amy is also a project leader for the Beacons educational project at The Hay Literature Festival. Which is ideal. Because she really loves good books.

Katrina Handford, Head, Kent College Pembury

Katrina took on the headship at Kent College Pembury in January 2022, having previously been Deputy Head and Acting Head at Nottingham Girls’ High School.  A passionate advocate of the benefits of an all-girls’ education, Katrina believes in a learning environment which nurtures confidence in girls, by providing cutting edge teaching and learning, an extensive enrichment programme and outstanding pastoral care, where all girls can unleash their potential and be extraordinary. Her aim is to give her girls the opportunity to become resilient and compassionate leaders of the future, ready to take up their place in the world on an equal footing with men, as considerate and kind global citizens.

For Katrina, raising confident, morally thoughtful and intellectually curious young women is key to steering the world towards a positive future. Our modern world still has a significant gender pay gap and, for example, only 12% of workers in STEM professions are women. Katrina believes that education is paramount to correcting these realities and she wants to empower the next generation to challenge such inequalities.

Katrina has been volunteering with End Sexism in Schools for the last three years as Stakeholder Manager and Patron Manager.  This has provided Katrina with the opportunity to further the work she is doing in her own school and raise awareness with a wider audience.

Jo Dunphy, EDI Lead at Cheltenham Ladies College

Jo is a values-driven professional dedicated to making a positive impact on the lives of the community she serve while aligning with the objectives and business needs of the organisation. With a wealth of experience as a practitioner and EDI leader she has devoted her career to advocating for the power of education. She has served as a key member of leadership teams, and has successfully challenged underperformance and led school improvement while maintaining excellence as a teacher. She believes that thriving institutions that offer real choices to students can transform their life chances.