Equality

Our Equalities Duty

The Equality Act 2010 has created the ‘Public Sector Equality Duty’ which states that every public body, including schools and academies, have a legal duty to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between people who share and do not share the following protected characteristics:

race
age
pregnancy or maternity
disability
religion or belief
gender
gender identity
sexual orientation
marriage or civil partnership

As part of our duties we publish:

our school’s Equality Objectives – these are reviewed annually and updated at least once every 4 years
an Equalities Statement profile of our school based upon the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010 – this is updated and published every year

Promoting Equality

In order to promote a positivity, we continually monitor our own classroom practice to ensure fairness of contact, spending as much time as possible interacting with all children, including those with SEND, and regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation and ability.

Equality of accessing the curriculum is assured for children for whom English is a new or additional language.

Children may work in small groups on activities which support work taught within the classroom. Children of all abilities will have the opportunity to work in small groups on focused tasks. In order to provide all children in our care with full access to the National Curriculum and the wider curriculum, we will ensure that:-

Children’s special educational needs, whether through learning difficulties or disabilities, are identified, assessed and provided for.
Parents/ carers are fully involved, at all stages, regarding provision for their child’s special needs.

Use is made of all agencies which may be able to assist in the identification and assessment of a child’s special needs.