Celebrating International Women’s Day in the Primary School

Last Tuesday, the Primary School girls came together to mark International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day is held annually on 8 March and is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender equality. Throughout the day, the girls engaged in a range of activities, designed to celebrate the achievements of significant women and to consider the difference that the girls might personally make to the world, even when they are as young as 5 years old!

Wearing purple ribbons as a symbol of International Women’s Day, the Year 6 girls led a powerful House Families session which allowed the girls in Years 2-6 to look a little more closely at a range of significant women, all of whom have made their mark in the world. In small groups, the girls discussed the achievements and thought about these in the context of their own lives, considering the potential difference they could make. Despite only being seven weeks into their leadership journey, the Year 6 girls did a magnificent job at leading these sessions, demonstrating that we have many strong female leaders that will undoubtedly go on to make their own mark on the world.

The day concluded with a special International Women’s Day Assembly, again ably led by our Year 6 girls. With a range of guest presenters including Ms Gyton, Mr Mitton, Mrs Carter and Ms Blakeway, we explored what it means to be “Bold”, how we can give female athletes a greater profile on the sporting field and how we can hold our own in traditionally male dominated fields such as Mathematics. The assembly finished on a high, with a video created that represented the career hopes and dreams of all of our girls from Kindergarten to Year 6. The future is safe in the hands of these young women who hope to make their mark in the world through careers in vet science, politics, teaching and the arts.

A huge thank you goes to Ms Rebecca Woodcock for facilitating the activities throughout the day.

Helen Dempsey
Head of Primary