what do you see in the picture?
what job do you think they have?
Uroosa Arshid is a firefighter from Nottinghamshire and has become famous last week as she is the first firefighter in the UK to wear a hijab.
Uroosa says, "It would have helped a lot if I had had someone else who looked like me and spoke like me and wore what I wore in the job." She remembers firefighters doing a talk at her school and wondering if maybe she could do something like that when she was older. She achieved her dream and now feels proud that she has been part of breaking down that barrier; "opening that door for other women, other hijabis that maybe potentially want to join the job later."
Uroosa says any negativity she has experienced has simply pushed her to prove that she can do the job and has got the job because if her ability. "It's an ever-changing world and an ever-changing job and we have to move with the times."
"If someone can see it they might realise they can be it."
- what is a stereotype?
-what is the stereotype about firefighters?
- Uroosa talks about breaking down barriers; what barriers is she talking about?
- what is a hijab, who wears a hijab?
- how do the barriers get there?
- how are they broken down?
- "It would have helped a lot if I had had someone else who looked like me and spoke like me and wore what I wore in the job." - why?
- "If someone can see it they might realise they can be it." what dies that mean?
- "It's an ever-changing world and an ever-changing job and we have to move with the times." what does that mean? Give other examples of the world and ideas changing.
- what can we learn from Uroosa?
- Why is this about No Outsiders?
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