Celebrating International Women’s Day
As part of the Words for Work Women in Leadership programme in partnership with Lancôme we are launching a competition and sharing an activity programme for young women and non-binary students in post-16 education.
The programme resources and competition will celebrate the voices of women and the theme of International Women's Day 2024 #InspireInclusion.
The resources will share our favourite spoken word poetry to inspire your students’ own writing.
- What message do you want to share to celebrate women?
- Can your words inspire and empower other women?
International Women’s Day poetry challenge
Use these resources to create poetry around this year's theme #InspireInclusion
- Suitable for: pupils in KS4 and KS5.
- Useful for: classroom teachers, literacy co-ordinators, school librarians, form tutors
- Use: classroom teaching ideas and activities for literacy and PSHE
Participate in the International Women’s Day activities
To be involved with your students, simply fill in the form below, and download the resources to use with them.
You can also register your school to win a limited number of book bundles.
We encourage you to submit your students' best work for a chance to win them an exclusive prize.
Please send entries to the Words for Work team by Friday 5 April 2024. Entries must be from education settings in the UK.
Resources for younger students (ages 3 to 14)
At the start of March, when spring is just around the corner and daffodils are blooming, it's time to celebrate International Women’s Day. What better opportunity to deliver thought-provoking literacy activities exploring inspirational women?
Our classroom resource offers lots of literacy activities and ideas to mark this annual celebration including:
- Book recommendations to read aloud and generate discussion with pupils in Early Years, KS1, KS2 and KS3/Early, First, Second and Third Level (ages 4 to 14)
- Suggestions for speaking and listening activities including storytelling inspired by role models
- Writing ideas from poetry to science experiments
Download the resource from the list below. The activities are designed to be adaptable for teachers working across different age ranges, and for the time you have available.
Sign up to join the KS4/4 Poetry Challenge
Research
Our research has explored the relationship between aspirations, literacy and gender for young people and adults; find out more in our report.