From listening in lectures to other people’s experiences about gender in primary school, I heard a variety of different examples. Varying from female teachers favouring female pupils to boys being picked first for sports teams. But, looking back on my experience in primary school I can only remember a few examples of gender affecting anything that happened in my class- it was to do with sport.

From primary 3, I took part in netball. But, this sport only applied to girls and we never had a boy on the team. However, it was offered to boys two years after I left primary school. However, this was only for training rather than actually competing against other primary schools in Arbroath.

I also remember that there was a girl’s football team and a mixed football team, there was never one for just boys, which the boys found quite unfair.

When I transitioned to high school, I did notice a difference in my experience. My French teacher, who I had from first to fourth year, preferred girls over boys. She would always mention how girls could continue to write while she spoke, but boys must stop what they’re doing because boys can’t multi-task. She would often send boys out for talking, but would never do that to girls.

So, throughout my time at school I haven’t had many bad experiences with gender, and when I’m a teacher, I won’t ever single out pupils for their gender.