Best Practice

LGBT+ and gender: Auditing your school’s curriculum

Legislation and guidance Curriculum
It is vital that your school curriculum represents the diversity seen in modern Britain. Katherine Fowler outlines what to consider when carrying out a curriculum review focused on gender and LGBT+ and considers how to instil a cross-curricular sense of inclusivity


Embed gender and LGBT+ inclusivity throughout your curriculum

If you want to change your pupils’ understanding and attitudes around gender and LGBT+ inclusivity, you will need to make changes across your whole curriculum. Keeping topics about gender and sexuality confined to a small number of PSHE or RSE lessons is unlikely to have the significant impact you seek.

You should look to question your whole curriculum for gender and LGBT+ inclusivity; then you and your colleagues can pinpoint where the weaknesses or gaps are in each subject and take steps to address them. Using a specialist curriculum audit tool will help provide a framework for thinking about how you can embed these topics across all areas of learning.

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