Elly Barnes is a Music teacher and Diversity Course Leader at Stoke Newington School and was awarded with the No. 1 spot on the Independents Pink List 2011. She opened her school as a Diversity Training Centre for Teachers to train them how to make their own schools LGBT friendly through a program she devised called 'Educate and Celebrate'. Elly is a very active NUT member and is the National Schools Representative for LGBT History month and Schools Out.
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About Educate & Celebrate
Elly has co-ordinated Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans history month celebrations at Stoke Newington school since 2005. The project has grown from an introductory assembly and a year 7 LGBT music lesson into a whole school initiative through the entire curriculum. Stoke Newington School hosts the Hackney borough LGBT celebrations each February, encouraging and inviting all Hackney schools and organisations to take part.
Elly would now like to share her experiences, resources and successful strategies with other educators nationally to give practical advice on how to make their own schools and workplaces LGBT friendly.
The school has recently been recognised by Ofsted as a centre of best practice for successfully challenging homophobic bullying. Since opening the school as a Diversity Training Centre for Teachers in September 2010, Elly has trained over a hundred teachers and educators nationally: the feedback from the one day course has been 100% excellent.