BSA Webinar –Women’s History Month and beyond – recommended resources and activities

• Date: February 27, 2023
• Time: 14:00 – 15:00
• Cost: Full Member – £60, Additional Full Member – £20 Affiliate Member £90, Non-member – £120
• Audience: SLT, Inclusion Lead, Head of Boarding, Teaching and Boarding staff
• Platform: Zoom (online)

Women’s History Month was established in the UK in 2011 and incorporates International Women’s Day (8th March 2021). Attending this training will give delegates a deeper understanding of why Women’s History month was established and will provide ideas and links to resources that could be used in your school.

This new, exciting and interactive webinar will empower delegates to confidently plan, run and embed Women’s History Month related activities and learning. Cathy will focus on two main strands – reclaiming the past and rewriting the future. Reclaiming the past will highlight the contribution of various women pioneers and consider what critic Lucy Irigaray calls ‘the forgetting of female ancestries’ and re-establishing them within ‘history’. Cathy will be exploring questions such as ‘If the economy of history is based on the assumption that public and political events have more ‘value’ than private and domestic events and are more worth recording, how can we re-value or re-imagine, women’s unrecorded experience in the past?’ Regarding the future, using case studies and examples, Cathy will consider for example, how we challenge gender stereotypes that influence career choices and how we can acknowledge the positive contribution of women.

Training topics will include:

• The origins and aims of Women’s History Month
• Educational ideas
• Reading/watching/to do list
• Recommended resources
• Moving beyond Women’s History Month.

Learning outcomes:

• Understanding of the contribution of various women pioneers
• Greater confidence to plan, run and embed Women’s History Month related activities
• How we can challenge gender stereotypes
• How we can acknowledge the positive contribution of women

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Speaker: Cathy David, Teacher in English and Classics, Librarian and Co-ordinator Holocaust Studies, DLD College London

Cathy David educated at Mansfield College Oxford, BA English Language and Literature post-graduate at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College and Birkbeck.  She trained in Counselling at Westminster Pastoral Foundation and Holocaust Education Trust to co-ordinate Holocaust studies at DLD College London where she has taught English Literature, Classics for up to 30 years. A Pastoral Head for 13 years, now a Personal Tutor and Interim Head of UCAS in 2019-20, with interests in feminist readings in Literature and Classics, Cathy works with Fumi St Marthe on diversity issues and also runs the college library where she makes sure there is an ever-changing display of books appropriate to the current topic in school.