Equalities

We are a Gold Equalities School

Behaviour and Welfare

The school takes steps to ensure that barriers to attendance for pupils from different backgrounds are removed.

Robust safeguarding and child protection arrangements are in place to promote pupils’ welfare and safeguard children effectively.

The school takes steps to ensure that rewards and sanctions are administered without bias.

Prejudice-related bullying and incidents are dealt with effectively.

Parents and carers know how to make a complaint of discrimination, harassment and/or victimisation and these are managed in a sensitive, just and empathetic way

Staff members treat each other, pupils and parents/carers with respect, and feel able to make a complaint of discrimination, harassment and/or victimisation and these are managed in a sensitive, just and empathetic way.

Leadership and Management

Equality is core to the school’s ethos and values and communicated to all in the school community.

The school is working towards specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-related (SMART) equality objectives.

All members of the staff team receive continuous professional development on issues of equality, bullying and safeguarding.

The school is aware how pupils from different backgrounds are achieving and progressing in the school. Where relevant, procedures are in place to reduce differences in outcomes.

The school promotes a positive environment in which people from all backgrounds feel valued and included.

Pupils and families who have English as an Additional Language have access to an appropriate level of support.

The school listens to and conducts meaningful consultation with parents/carers, pupils and staff to identify equality issues and barriers to inclusion.

Reasonable adjustments are made to enable disabled people to access to the physical environment of the school, the curriculum and information

Admissions procedures are fair and equal; admissions data is analysed by different groups. Where relevant, steps are taken to reduce disparities.

Staff recruitment, training and promotion procedures follow good equal opportunities practice; efforts are made to reflect the local community in the composition of the staff, governors and volunteers

The school assesses the impact of policies and measures on equalities, with regards to current and prospective pupils and parents/carers.

The school has an inclusive uniform policy

Personal Development of Pupils

Young people have the opportunity to explore concepts of prejudice, discrimination, exclusion and human rights injustices with reference to local national and international affairs

Pupils are encouraged to develop an awareness of and pride in their own identities as well as empathy and insight into the lives of experiences of people from different backgrounds.

The school promotes shared values and a sense of community

Pupils are encouraged to become active citizens and play an active part in their community.

PSHE provision, including Relationships and Sex Education (RSE), is robust, considered and applicable to the issues in the local area

Pupils know how to keep themselves safe from relevant risks, such as exploitation and extremism.

Teaching and Learning

All curriculum design and implementation is inclusive of people of different ethnicities.

All curriculum design and implementation is inclusive of people of different religions.

All curriculum design and implementation is inclusive of people of different sexual orientations

All curriculum design and implementation is inclusive of people of different genders, including transgender people.

All curriculum design and implementation is inclusive of disabled people.