Equality at Ellistown School

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Ellistown Community Primary School endeavours to improve the lives of children, young people and families.

We welcome all children and their families without discrimination.  We value everyone in our school community, celebrating and valuing our differences, our uniqueness and the fact that we are all equal.

We ensure that all forms of bullying, including homophobic, transphobic and racist bullying are tackled efficiently. In doing so we believe that children will attain more at school and our community will be happier and more successful.  We hold the Inclusion Quality Mark which recognises the work we do at Ellistown School to support inclusion.

Our anti-bullying policy

Due to the Public Sector Equality Duty we teach the Equality Act 2010 to all of our pupils in a child friendly way, discussing all of the protected characteristics during each child’s school career as appropriate. Children are taught from Early Years onwards to recognise and accept difference and diversity in the school and their communities.

Our equality objectives are:

1.  To further develop our RE curriculum in light of the recent changes to the local offer, to extend and deepen all children’s knowledge, understanding and appreciation of a range of different faiths.  This should include an appreciation of similarities and differences between the beliefs and values of people who have different faith backgrounds

2.  To commit ourselves to embedding the ‘No Outsiders; programme throughout the school. 

3.  We will provide a range of activities to improve all stake holders awareness and understanding of autism and implement measures to enable our school to become an autism friendly school

4.  We will introduce an Equality Impact Statement working document to ensure that we have a record of when the need for Equality has been taken into consideration e.g. when planning trips, carrying out interviews.

Progress towards these objectives will be evaluated at the end of each school year and available to view on the school website. The first review of these objectives will be July 2022

As children move through our school the ‘No Outsiders’ ethos is developed through references to the Equality Act 2010. By upper KS2 children will understand the different protected characteristics and understand the definitions.

Our school ethos of “No Outsiders” enables and supports us in our aims to eliminate discrimination as children learn that everyone is welcome in the school. This ensures that everybody feels welcome and valued in line with the 2010 Equality Act, whatever their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. The character-building ethos improves equality of opportunity for all, encouraging children to be proud of who they are and who they are growing up to be. Children will also understand how British law protects those differences in the strive for equality.

The school will consult with children every year through a questionnaire which demonstrates the extent to which attitudes towards equality and diversity are understood and accepted.  Parents, staff and governors will also be surveyed.

    The results of our March 2022 Equality Survey