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Equality Objectives

  • Ensure that all children, regardless of demographic, gain the knowledge, skills and cultural capital they need to succeed in life and achieve well.
  • Prepare pupils for life in modern Britain effectively, developing their understanding of FBVs and equality and diversity to combat influencing factors in their community and potentially home environment.
  • All pupil groups to perform in line with each other, with no demographic group under-performing.

How have the objectives been chosen?

These objectives have been chosen as a result of the analysis of audit trails (including learning walks, book scrutinies and talking with pupils), as well as the analysis of external data reports including ASP and IDSR and in consultation with other stakeholders.

What is going to be done to achieve each objective?

We will:

Objectives

Actions

Success Criteria

Ensure that all children, regardless of demographic, gain the knowledge, skills and cultural capital they need to succeed in life and achieve well.

  1. All subject curriculums identify the key knowledge to be taught each year.
  2. Subject long term plans progressive.
  3. Key concepts of each curriculum regularly revisited.
  4. Knowledge organisers for every unit available to all pupils.
  5. All lessons start with a ‘Do Now’ to revisit previously taught learning and allows new learning to be built successfully upon.
  6. Weekly Revisit & Remember sessions.
  7. End of unit assessments in place.
  8. Attainment and progress data to be analysed by demographic groups, emerging gaps identified and addressed.
  9. Effective Pupil Premium Strategy Plan in place.
  10. All staff trained in adaptive teaching so that teaching is inclusive.
  • Pupils books, assessments and pupil voice shows that all children have gained the knowledge, skills and cultural capital they need to be successful in life and that they are achieving well.
  • External reviews/ audits praise the quality of education for all children, stating it is ambitious for all learners.
  • All demographic groups will perform in line with each other, with no group under-performing significantly.

Prepare pupils for life in modern Britain effectively, developing their understanding of FBVs and equality and diversity to combat influencing factors in their community and potentially home environment.

  1. Review PSHE & Lunar Curriculum to ensure it:
  • Develops pupils’ understanding of FBVs
  • Promotes respect for differences between people
  • Celebrates the things in common across cultural, religious, ethnic and socioeconomic communities (i.e. they understand difference is positive)
  • Engages pupils with views, beliefs and opinions that are different from their own in considered ways
  • Promotes respect for protected characteristics as defined in law
  • No forms of discrimination are tolerated
  • develops pupils to become responsible, respectful and active citizens who are able to play their part and become actively involved in public life as adults
  • protects children from radicalisation, extremism and gang culture
  1. Ensure all school provision promotes equality of opportunity and diversity.
  2. Develop a collective worship curriculum that develops and deepens pupils’ understanding of the fundamental British values of democracy, individual liberty, the rule of law, and mutual respect and tolerance.
  3. Develop Curriculum & Cultural visits/visitors plan that develops and deepens pupils’ understanding of the fundamental British values of democracy, individual liberty, the rule of law, and mutual respect and tolerance.
  4. Ensure book spine develops and deepens pupils’ understanding of the fundamental British values of democracy, individual liberty, the rule of law, and mutual respect and tolerance.
  5. Review Inclusion Statement with all stakeholders (pupils, parents, staff, school committee, church committee) so that the school and its stakeholders ensure an inclusive environment that meets the needs of all pupils, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, and where no discrimination exists, for example in respect of wider opportunities for pupils.
  6. Share Inclusion Statement with school community via newsletter.
  7. Revisit training in inclusion and Equality Act 2010.
  8. Review E-Safety curriculum and Safer Internet Day to ensure they teach pupils to recognise online risks of gang activity, radicalisation and extremism, and it makes them aware of support available to them.
  • All aspects of the school’s personal development provision is reviewed to ensure it prepares children for life in modern Britain, deepens their understanding of the FBVs and promotes equality and diversity.
  • Monitoring shows the school is free from discrimination, harassment and victimisation and good relations exist between all members of the school community.

 

 

All pupil groups to perform in line with each other, with no demographic group under-performing, with a specific focus on Y6 boys and girls in Writing and PP and Non-PP in Maths.

  1. Data to be analysed by demographic groups.
  2. Progress and attainment data from demographic groups to be discussed with all stakeholders.
  3. Where a demographic group is not performing in line with others, targets to be set on class action plans.
  4. Effective Pupil Premium Strategy Plan and plans for looked after pupils will be in place.
  • All demographic groups will perform in line with each other, with no group under-performing significantly.
  • All demographic groups will perform higher than others nationally.

What is the diversity of our school population?

Our school population on 9th September 2024 was as follows (taken from Arbor): the ethnic groups are White British 85.47%, Chinese 0.73%, Any Other Mixed Background 0.48%, White and Asian 1.69%, Other White British 0.97%, White English 7.02%, Any Other White Background 0.73%, Afghan 0.73%, White European 0.48%, Any Other Asian 0.24%, Arab Other 0.24%, Black African 0.24%, Indian 0.24%, Iranian 0.24%, White and Black Caribbean 0.24% and White Other 0.24%. The school had 16 ethnic groups. 

How are we performing in relation to the three aims of the equality duty?

Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation

Our Christian ethos, school vision and aims, curriculum provision and policies, as well as our approach to pastoral support and behaviour management ensures unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation is eliminated.

Advance equality of opportunity

We effectively advance equality of opportunity through our curriculum and wider curriculum provision, as a result of being a UNICEF Rights Respecting School, and through our day to day practices e.g. we encourage participation in sport for those with disability, teaching girls and boys they can have the same aspirations, deliberate and careful selection of teaching materials and resources.

Foster good relations

We actively foster good relations by promoting positive attitudes and good relationships between all pupils and staff. We also seek to promote and secure genuine home-school links and achieving excellent communication. Examples of how this is achieved include: weekly newsletter, regular use of in-app messages, pupil/parent mentoring conversations, parent forum, family learning opportunities inc Meet the Teacher and Parent Insight sessions, inviting family members to participate in the life of the school, signposting our families to other agencies. We also have an open-door policy.

The Equality Act brought in changes in to what schools should and must do

The Act covers all aspects of school life to do with how a school treats pupils and prospective pupils, parents and carers, employees, and members of the community. Everything a school does must be fair, non-discriminatory and not put individuals or groups of people at a disadvantage. In particular, a school must not discriminate, harass or victimise a pupil or potential pupil in relation to:

• Admissions

• The way it provides education for pupils

• How it provides pupils access to any benefit, facility or service

• Excluding a pupil or subjecting them to any other detriment

What actions and behaviours are unlawful under the Act?

The Act defines a number of types of unlawful behaviour, including:

• Direct discrimination

• Indirect discrimination

• Failing to make reasonable adjustments for disabled pupils or staff

• Discrimination arising from disability

• Harassment related to a protected characteristic

• Victimisation of someone because they have made, or helped with, a complaint about discrimination

What are “protected characteristics”?

Protected characteristics refer to aspects of a person’s identify. Treating a person less favourably because they have one or more of these characteristics would be unlawful. The protected characteristics are:

• Age

• Disability

• Gender reassignment

• Marriage and civil partnership

• Pregnancy and maternity

• Race

• Religion or belief

• Sex

• Sexual orientation

The Equality and Accessibility Action Plan is located on our school website.

The Equality Scheme is located under the policies section of the Three Saints Academy Trust website.