WHOLE SCHOOL APPROACH
We believe tackling misogyny requires a united effort across the entire school community. Our Whole School Approach is designed to work collaboratively with staff, students, and leadership teams to create lasting change.
Our Approach
Our Whole School Approach centres the voices of girls and gender-diverse students - those most harmed by misogyny in schools.
Through our intervention, schools are helped to engage meaningfully with the experiences of their students. That begins with focus groups, providing a safe space for girls, gender-diverse students, and women and gender-diverse staff to share their experiences of misogyny.
Drawing on what they share, we produce a detailed, anonymous report for your senior leadership team and propose realistic and achievable remedies. In addition, we offer mixed-gender assemblies, bespoke staff training, our flagship workshops for girls and gender-diverse students, and specialist workshops for boys.
Our Whole School Approach is delivered by professionals who collectively bring decades of experience in youth work and within the movement to end male violence against women and girls. They create safe, trauma-informed environments where everyone has the space to explore the harm caused by misogyny, be curious about where these harmful ideologies stem from, and learn how to become disruptors.
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Focus Groups
Our focus groups provide safe spaces for girls, students of marginalised genders, and women staff to share their experiences of misogyny.
These spaces ensure that the starting point of our work with you as a community is to centralise the voices of those who are directly harmed and targeted by misogynistic attitudes and behaviours.
We conduct one focus group with each year group and one with teachers and staff who identify as women or gender-diverse. These are spaces where students and staff can share their experiences of misogyny and harm within school and more widely.
We know that not everyone experiences gender-based violence and inequality to the same degree. We provide focus groups for racially minoritised students with an affinity group facilitator who can explore students’ intersectional experiences of misogyny, such as misogynoir.
Comprehensive report
The themes identified in the focus groups are used to produce a clear and detailed anonymous report for your senior leadership team.
The report centres students’ voices and experiences, using their quotes to illustrate the key trends and deepen your awareness of how misogyny and its harm manifest in your school community.
The bespoke report lays out tailored remedies, offering realistic and achievable ways to challenge gender-based inequality and drive meaningful change in the short- and long-term. For example, we have supported senior leadership teams in producing procedure and policy documents that guide staff in how to respond to and disrupt misogyny within the school community effectively.
We understand how stretched school teams often are, so we ensure this document serves as a practical resource you can return to as needed.
Teacher and staff training
Teachers and staff are increasingly having to navigate new and evolving expressions of misogyny within the student population. We know that incidents of pupils directing misogynistic behaviour toward women staff are rising, and that teams need more support, guidance, and practical tools to respond effectively to this.
Our staff training is grounded in contextual insight from our focus groups and report, equipping educators and wider staff with strategies to disrupt and challenge misogyny and its harms.
Our training also deepens their awareness and understanding, as well as facilitates reflective practice on their own experiences and biases within a safe, empathic training environment.
We offer space to explore how your staff and leadership want to work to ensure you are disrupting this harm within your institution. We then provide follow-up resources, allowing you to continue exploring this within your team.
Whole School Assemblies
We deliver year-group assemblies on misogyny and its harms. These explore gender roles, misogyny and sexism, and how they impact our sense of freedom and safety, in an age-appropriate way.
This is aimed at starting conversations amongst your student body, encouraging and modelling critical thinking skills, as well as engaging with radical empathy for one another. Students are taught to be someone who disrupts misogyny and sexism, contributing to a safer, more equal school environment.
workshops
Our flagship workshops allow girls and gender‑diverse students to use their voices creatively, exploring feminist joyful activism and reflecting on the impact of misogyny in their lives.
We introduce key concepts such as safety, freedom, misogyny, sexism, patriarchy, and internalised misogyny to support the group in exploring their own experiences and understanding the harm these systems create.
Together, we examine how these forces shape our sense of safety and freedom, before moving into a collective and positive exploration of girlhood and gender that celebrates our identities and helps us reclaim joy in who we are.
We introduce the students to Zines; handmade booklet-magazines they can create as a reminder of what we have explored, and to express themselves creatively as we grapple with these emotive topics.
boys work
Girlhood Reclaimed specialises in gendered harm as it affects young people who identify with girlhood.
We also recognise the impact that toxic masculinities and patriarchy have on men and boys.
By collaborating with organisations working directly with young men and boys, we address the impact and harm of misogyny in their lives as well. This partnership enables us to deliver a genuinely whole-school, whole-community approach, where everyone is both included and supported.
continued collaboration
We know there is no quick fix to the cultural problem of misogyny.
That’s why we are committed to supporting schools over time as they make meaningful changes and welcome new students each year. We can offer follow-on support which is bespoke to your school’s needs and may include additional teacher training, assemblies, consultancy, and more. This is delivered as a 12-month retainer where your school continues to have access to our support and guidance, ensuring you are not left to implement changes alone.
This can be bespoke to your school and include teacher training, assemblies, and further student work.
cost and next steps
Girlhood Reclaimed is a Community Interest Company (CIC) committed to delivering impactful, sustainable work with schools and young people.
We recognise that every school operates with different budget capacities and has its own specific needs.
We are happy to discuss your school’s requirements and provide a tailored quote based on the scope of work you’re looking for.
Enquire now to start discussing how we can support your school community.
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