Year 5 - This is NOT a fairytale!

In Literacy and Language, our current story focus is about a princess named Ramona and her knight (wood-cutter) in shining armour Luke. Ramona is slightly different to normal princess' and as a year group we will be writing the sequel to their adventure.
We have been discussing stereotypes and what is a stereotypical princess.
How do they look?
How do they act?
Where do they live?
As a year group we agreed that the princess' in the fairytales we have read are always beautiful and in need of a hero, often living in a castle.
We wanted to ask the children -
What if the princess wasn't attractive?
What if the princess was strong?
What is the princess was brave and didn't need a prince to save her?
We decided to do a social experiment and the children were asked to draw and label an image of different jobs in the community.

• Builder
• Ballerina
• Fireman
• Nurse
• Doctor
• Footballer

All but a few, drew the gender stereotypical images of these jobs.

Builder - Male

Ballerina - Female

Fireman - Male

Nurse - Female

Doctor - Male

Footballer - Male

Next, we discussed what the meaning of a 'subverted stereotype' was and discussed as a class how we could create an opposite image of a witch/ dragon/ princess. This is all in preparation for our sequel of Ramona's adventure which will be called, 'This is NOT a fairytale!'