What year in primary school are they taught about

[nappyaddict]

Discrimination and prejudice against same sex couples, gender, age, race, religion, disability etc?

Are they taught about the background of specific discriminative words that are considered un-PC nowadays and why this is so?

y5 at earliest, and nowhere as completely as you make out. Especially not the history of certain words.

My oldest has just left y6 and has never learned this. I have explained sexist, racist, homophobic language when he has come back from school repeating what he's heard.

In infants there were general lessons on being considerate and how people come in different shapes and sizes but no lessons on racism, homophobia etc.

These issues are not in the National Curriculum (currently followed by most state primary schools) so may be covered by individual schools at will. We tend to start addressing the issues through the curriculum from the start. Religious festivals (and therefore religious freedom) from Reception, gender and racial discrimination with Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole in Y1/2, same sex couples as and when it is raised (regardless of what people say, children cope with this if it is raised as part of discussions and they tend to reflect their parents' views) but by Y4 explictly if not raised before, age discrimination from an early stage, but again explicitly in around Y3 by looking at famous older people. In Y5 we look at what words are appropriate for when (if not covered before when addressing issues raised by the children). We do not tend to have a policy on where non-PC words have come from.
If you want to know what your school does, just ask. As a head, I welcome parents wanting these issues covered more, as it gives me ammunition against the few who don't think we should talk about them, but who are disproportionately loud and pushy!

race, religion and disability are often discussed in anti-bullying week discussions.
Often where a child has a disability - and the others in the class will need to have an element of understanding, the teacher organises a discussion, sometimes in-house, sometimes from external organisations (autism etc)

Crumbs, my DC's cover the history of segregation and racism in Y4 at their state school, learning about slave ships, Martin Luther King, and the woman on the bus whose name eludes me.

Rosa Parks CouthyMow

I do know DS1's class (Yr 5) had a discussion as to why you shouldnt use 'gay' as an insult (it seems to be the word at the moment, I heard some boys in the park saying how 'gay' their holiday had been!)

The class discussion also discussed racism and general name calling but not sure if it was a planned lesson or prompted by playground shouting

That's the one! . Felt really disrespectful to forget her name.

They teach lots of things at the DS's school that other local school's don't, now if they could just do something about the total lack of pastoral care, their inability to cope AT ALL with DC's with SN's, and change their ethos of covering up bullying, and institutionalised denial and lies, the school would be perfect and extremely sought after...

I have found myself having discussions on these issues in years 2 and 3, as teachers are expected (and quite rightly) to challenge prejudicial and discriminatory views if encountered at school. It's not something I plan for, but not something I am afraid to discuss either.

I plan for PSHE across the school and all these themes are taught from Year R.

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