Why Taiwo Owatemi’s powerful speech on feeding families is going viral
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Are you smart enough to pass the 11+ grammar school test?
Pencils at the ready, everyone….
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- Kayleigh Dray
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This viral hashtag reminds us teachers are coronavirus heroes, too
Show this to the next idiot who says teachers only do it “for the long holidays”.
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Teachers are using Lizzo songs to empower their students and it’s so pure
A video of young children singing along to Truth Hurts has gone viral, and the internet is officially good again.
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Period poverty in the UK: 1 in 5 young girls are being bullied at school, here’s how you can help
Male classmates are calling them "dirty" and "disgusting"
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How teen girls are standing up to boys who rank them based on their looks
When a sexist list ranking girls’ looks circulated at one high school, the girls fought back.
Life
Made By Girls: “Why adults need to stop stifling girls’ creativity”
12-year-old Joely argues that teenagers should be given the same artistic freedom as children
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A poem about International Day of the Girl, by 11-year-old Scarlett
This young writer has penned a powerful acrostic poem
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#WhenIWas: Women share stories of the first time they were harassed in public
The hashtag came off the back of the news that a third of UK girls have been harassed in their school uniform.
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Channel 4 newsreader Cathy Newman: I was sexually assaulted as a teenager by a boy in my school
"Your instinct is to sort of laugh it off and then question whether you were to blame"
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- Anna Brech
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Alesha Dixon has a simple, yet powerful, solution to period poverty
137,000 girls in the UK are regularly missing school because they can’t afford sanitary protection. That needs to change
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Why this school has now revoked its ‘modesty poncho’ for prom
Because sometimes social media wins.
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- Susan Devaney
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Laura Bates on why we urgently need better sex education in schools
"Some biology textbooks don’t include the clitoris, because why would girls need to know about that?"
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Headteacher tells girls not to wear leggings if they're above a size 6
“Even though you’re not fat, you look fat”
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- Moya Crockett
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Life
How being popular at school affects mental health in adulthood
Turns out being the queen bee isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
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- Moya Crockett
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Life
High school boys support female students against sexist dress code
And this is how it’s done
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- Megan Murray
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Facebook post reveals why we shouldn’t celebrate 100% work attendance
A post for anyone battling illness at their desk
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- Kayleigh Dray
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This girls’ football team joined a boys’ league – and won it
Back of the net, as they say
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- Moya Crockett
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Teacher supports bullied schoolgirl by styling her hair the same way
Be the change you wish to see.
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Girl, 10, writes brilliant list of boundaries for boy who fancies her
"Do not touch my shoulder"
Life
These are the best and worst places to be a girl in England and Wales
There’s a huge divide in girls’ quality of life across the country, according to a new report.
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- Moya Crockett
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