What do you see in the picture, what is this, why do you think someone designed it?
This model is made out of LEGO and is called "Everyone is awesome.". It was designed by artist Matthew Ashton, who is Vice President of Design at LEGO.
What do you think that job involves?
Why do you think Mathew made this and used these colours?
Matthew says, "Being LGBT+ myself, I knew I needed to step up to the plate and make a real statement about love and inclusivity and generally spread some LEGO love to everybody who needs it."
What is LGBT+?
What does step up to the plate mean?
Why do you think Matthew says some people need some LEGO love?
"Children are our role models and they welcome everyone, no matter their background. Something we should all be aspiring to."
Why does Matthew say "children" welcome everyone, why not say "adults"?
What does aspiring to something mean?
Matthew talks about being a young boy in the 1980s when there was a lot of negativity about being different; "I was constantly told by different adults around me what I should and shouldn't play with, that I needed to behave like a 'real boy' and toughen up. I was dissuaded from doing the things that came most naturally to me."
Why do you think adults did this?
Why use the term "real boy" what do you think about that?
Does this still happen today?
Matthew says he thinks adults did this to protect him from being bullied, but actually he was fine with the other kids and wasn't getting bullied. He says the behaviour from adults was exhausting and kicked his confidence.
What do you think about this, can you see why the adults were behaving in this way?
What would you say (respectfully) to the adults today?
Matthew designed Everyone is Awesome to show "Things do get better over time and there is a place for everybody."
Why does Matthew say things get better over time, why do we have to wait, why can't things get better right now?
Matthew says if he had been given this set by someone when younger, "It would have been such a relief to know that somebody had my back. To know I had someone there to say, "I love you, I believe in you, I'll always be here for you."
"This set is not for LGBT+ people, it's for all of the allies - parents, siblings, friends, schoolmates, colleagues etc out there as well."
It's just a LEGO set, how can it mean so much?
This month is LGBT+ history month; what do you think that is about?
Do you think we need a month to celebrate LGBT+ history? What are the different points of view?
What is the law in the UK about this? Who else is protected in that law?
What do we say at our school about LGBT+ people?
Why is this about No Outsiders?
Which British Value is this about?
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