Ms Arlene Forster:

A couple of things strike me from the curriculum perspective. The first important point is that in the primary curriculum, the area of STEM is for all children. There is no choice here, so they all have access and opportunity to learn in this area. From the perspective of gender and where children begin to show what we could refer to as gendered stereotypes in the STEM area, there is research showing that by the age of nine or ten years-----