Our aims are to:

• Eliminate discrimination, harassment and victimisation and any other conduct that is prohibited by or under the Equality Act 2010
• Advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between people who share a relevant protected characteristic and people who do not share it
• Create an inclusive and supportive learning environment with a diverse and engaging curriculum that enables and inspires all children to reach their full potential. Barriers to children’s success must be consciously searched for, assessed and responded to effectively
• Ensure that all children feel valued and celebrated. To achieve this all children in our school will be heard, seen and included

Principles

Leadership for transformational change: We are committed to supporting our leaders to create an inclusive school that removes barriers to success and creates a sense of belonging and high expectation for all.

Representation Matters: We understand the importance of having a range of diverse and positive role-models for all and we ensure our curriculum reflects this.

Celebrating diversity: Diversity is a fact and a strength, which should be respected and celebrated by all those who learn, teach and visit our schools.

Reflective practice, training and commitment to improve: We acknowledge that we are on a journey of improvement. We are committed to our continued development and awareness to ensure equity for all in our school. Staff training and development are designed to challenge thinking, address unconscious bias and improve practice.

Robust systems and monitoring: Through using a variety of checks and balances, we ensure our monitoring systems are robust.

We foster strong partnerships with parents / carers and the local community: We listen to our families and learn about their needs and the challenges they face. We work with them to ensure we offer the best support for the children in our school. Parents / carers are actively welcomed and involved in the school community and help enrich the children’s experiences. We actively promote positive attitudes and mutual respect between groups and communities different from each other.

Responding to local, national and international events and movements: Addressing current issues to demonstrate our support for fighting / challenging inequality and injustice.

Quality first teaching and high expectations and ambitions for all: We are committed to maximising the attainment of every pupil and, in particular, pupils at risk of educational underachievement. We work to raise standards for all pupils, but especially for the most vulnerable. We believe that improving the quality of education for the most vulnerable groups of pupils raises standards across the whole school.

Tackling issues – addressing prejudice and inequality: The school challenges all forms of prejudice and prejudice-based incidents which stand in the way of fulfilling our commitment to inclusion and equality; prejudices around disability and special educational needs, prejudices around race, religion or beliefs, prejudices around gender and sexual orientation. We are an anti-racist school and actively search for ways to promote equality and diverse representation across the curriculum.

More information can be found in our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy.
 

Single Equality Scheme Objectives

Objectives	1) To continue to promote the understanding and acceptance of the protected characteristics.	2) To increase awareness of diversity, including neurodiversity and disabilities.
Specific	This objective will ensure that we consider the ways in which the protected characteristics may be discriminated against and counter such discrimination or unconscious bias.	Staff will consider the ways in which diversity, including neurodiversity and disabilities, are perceived by adults and children. We will seek to increase awareness of differences between people and celebrate these differences as a unifying characteristic.
Measurable	Any incidences of deliberate or unintentional discrimination will decrease over time.	A range of diverse people will be represented in our curriculum resources. Children and adults will use language that demonstrate an acceptance of all forms of diversity as being normal.
Attainable	Staff and pupils will recognise the protected characteristics and be aware of any potential discrimination or unconscious bias.	Children and adults will demonstrate acceptance of disabilities and diversity as normal. Those with disabilities will have high self-esteem.
Relevant	We recognise the importance of ensuring everyone is respected and treated equitably. We will not tolerate any form of discrimination, and will seek to educate those how may not understand that their words or actions may be discriminatory or derogatory to others.	Our school values of love and friendship for all regardless of differences, encapsulate the acceptance and compassion we want our pupils to grow to have.
Time-Bound	We will review these objectives annually during the four-year period, and evaluate the effectiveness of our plan, modifying it and adapting it as we proceed.

 

Single Equality Scheme Action Plan

Activity and Proposed Action	Who	Time	Success Criteria
Staff will ensure that different protected characteristic are represented in the curriculum where appropriate	All CTs	Ongoing	When planning for teaching and learning, class teacher will consider relevant groups with protected characteristics and ensure they promote positive representation.
When new resources are purchased, staff will consider how the resources will support the development of pupil understanding in relation to the protected characteristics including neurodiversity and a variety of disabilities.	All staff	Ongoing	Minority groups in school will recognise themselves in the resources used and displayed. Pupils will develop their knowledge and understanding of different groups beyond their immediate experience.
Through PSHE sessions explore how it feels to be different to encourage children to think about minorities generally including those with neurodiversity or disabilities.	All CTs	Ongoing	Children are able to explore and empathise, developing their understanding of belonging and how it feels to be an outsider. Children will feel empowered to intervene or speak to an adult if they hear or witness racism or discrimination.
Promote a strong, positive sense of identity for all children including those who have disabilities or are neurodiverse through affirmation and support	All staff	Ongoing	All children will feel good about themselves and be confident in their different skills and different ways of learning.
Assembly programme to promote inclusion and an understanding of diversity	HT and CTs	Ongoing	Children will be able to talk about inclusion and diversity. They will talk about and treat others with respect.
Any incidents of discrimination will be followed up appropriately, and parents informed.	HT	As required	Perpetrators of discrimination will be encouraged to understand the effect of their actions/words and consider the harm they are causing to others. Restorative conversations will take place where appropriate.