International Womens Day Assembly Script Primary

Assembly Script
This assembly script acts as a guide to delivering an assembly about International Women’s
Day.
This assembly resource is designed to help you talk introduce the idea of gender inequality,
and how a girl’s education is a key part of supporting the International Women’s Day mission
to achieve gender equality.
There is a PowerPoint that compliments this assembly script, please do adapt this script and
the PowerPoint to best suit your pupils and your school.
Slide 1
Welcome! Today is International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day happens every
year and is a day to raise awareness of global gender inequalities and find ways we can work
together for a more balanced world.
Slide 2
Today we’ll learn more about what gender inequality means, and take a look at how girl’s
education can affect the gender balance. We’ll also start to think about ways that we can use
our voice to support each other achieve gender equality.
Slide 3
What does inequality mean to you?
Take suggestions from your pupils.
Those were all great answers!
Inequality happens when some people have more opportunities, money or a better quality of
life than other people due to their differences. It might be that they are different genders, race,
or have different economic and social opportunities.
Slide 4
Twice as many
girls as boys
may never go to school.
This could be for any number of reasons:

 In some countries people still believe that girls do not need educated.
 Girls are more likely to be care givers and stay at home to look after sick family
members.
 Access to school in some countries can be difficult, and even dangerous, which makes
families less likely to send their girls to school.
Slide 5
Women make up more than two-thirds of the people who cannot read and write.
This contributes to gender inequality because it means that women will not be able to get
higher paying jobs, and they cannot manage their finances or support their families in the
same way. Women and girls who can read and write are healthier too because they better
understand how to keep themselves and their families healthy. Research has found that they
are also more productive and contribute to their communities more effectively.
Slide 6
For every extra year a girl stays in school, her income can increase by 11%.
Why do you think this is a positive thing?
Take suggestions from your pupils.
Those were all great answers! Women and girls having more money brings more
opportunities for her and her family, it also contributes to the success and productivity of her
wider community.
Slide 7
We’ve learned a lot about how girls accessing education can greatly improve gender equality.
For example, girls who receive an education are:

 Generally healthier
 Earn higher wages
 Have greater awareness of their rights
 Support healthier and more prosperous families
For girls who
grow up in
poverty,
accessing
education means that they can break the cycle of
poverty in just one generation.
Slide 8
What does this mean for our school?
We want everyone to enjoy coming to our school.
All of us play a role in making that a reality.
If we all feel happier and safer at school we will perform better during exams, make better
friendships and be happier.
Slide 9
Now it is time for reflection.
Close your eyes and think about what we have learned and how it applies to our school
community.
We want everyone to feel happy, safe and willing to come to school.
Think about one thing that you can do this week to make your class mates feel happier and
safer at school.
Slide 10
Remember, if there is anything that makes you feel unhappy or unsafe – or if there is
anything that makes you not want to come to school – you should always tell someone.
You can tell a teacher, a trusted adult or friend, you can also tell tootoot! The pupil voice
software we have available that makes it easy for you to speak-up about your worries when
you may find it difficult to approach a teacher or would prefer to write your worries down in
a message to school. If you can’t remember your login, or how to access tootoot, simply ask
{teachers name} for more information.
Slide 11
Here is a quick
review of the
things we have
learned today in assembly.
For us as a school it is important that we recognise that gender equality affects many aspects
of a girl’s life, and that we all play a role in working towards gender equality.
If something makes you feel unhappy or unsafe then you can always use your voice to speak-
up and resolve your concerns.

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Take suggestions from your pupils.

Those were all great answers!

This could be for any number of reasons:

Why do you think this is a positive thing?

Take suggestions from your pupils.

For example, girls who receive an education are:

We want everyone to enjoy coming to our school.

All of us play a role in making that a reality.

We want everyone to feel happy, safe and willing to come to school.

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