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Elly Barnes MBE FCCT is the founder and chief executive of the charity Educate & Celebrate. She was voted Number 1 in the Independent on Sunday's
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in 2011 (now the Rainbow List), and was a judge in 2012. Barnes was appointed
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in 2016 for her contribution to education, equality and diversity. She also received her honorary doctorate from the University of Aberdeen in November 2016 and won th
Activist of the Year 2018
award from Diva Magazine. Barnes has formed a close partnership with
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and together with Dr Anna Carlile wrote a book of all the research from the Educate & Celebrate Programme released in March 2018 called ''How To Transform Your School into An LGBT+Friendly Place: A Practical Guide for nursery, primary and secondary teachers''.


Education

Barnes attended
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and The Bosworth College. She then studied for a degree in music, specialising in voice, at the
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and then completed her
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(PGCE) at the faculty of Education at the University of Central England, now known as
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. She had her Newly qualified teacher (NQT) year at The
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in Stevenage whilst studying for a Diploma in Music Technology at
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. Barnes completed an MA in school based explorations at
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University.


Early LGBT+ work

Barnes first job was as a peripatetic singing teacher in Hertfordshire and London. She then obtained a permanent teaching role at
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in North London becoming Head of Year in 2005. That year, she began working towards eradicating homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic language and bullying by challenging young people's (and teachers, parents and governors) perceptions of LGBT+ people. The approach taken was to educate young people about different gender identities and sexual orientations by introducing recognisable symbols of the LGBT+ community, famous LGBT+ people and the history of the
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struggle. During these early years Barnes and her team created LGBT+Inclusive schemes of work for their year 7 including ICT lessons on
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, LGBT+ symbols, key rings,
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in Design & Technology and songs by queer artists in music. All the teachers in the year team contributed; the project developed over the next 7 years into a school-wide celebration of LGBT+ History Month with an integrated curriculum for which received ‘
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’ status from
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in 2012 for successfully tackling homophobic bullying and ingrained attitudes in our schools stating that ‘This approach has been highly successful.’


Educate & Celebrate

In 2010 Barnes developed her theory and practice into the ‘Educate & Celebrate’ https://www.educateandcelebrate.org/ PRIDE in Inclusion Award which incorporates teacher training, coaching and mentoring alongside a comprehensive resource programme to support schools, colleges, universities and organisations to build a future of inclusion and social justice.


See also


References


External links


Educate & Celebrate website
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