At Billingborough Primary School we are committed to ensuring equality of opportunity in line with the Equality Act of October 2010. We seek to demonstrate this through all aspects of school life and in particular through our commitment to every child, fulfilling their potential. This commitment applies to our work in the classroom, our pupil support systems, our recruitment and retention of staff and our work in the local and wider community.
Billingborough Primary School and Nursery is an inclusive school where we focus on the well-being and progress of every child and where all members of our community are of equal worth.
We believe that the Equality Act provides a framework to support our commitment to valuing diversity, tackling discrimination, promoting equality and fostering good relationships between people. It also ensures that we continue to tackle issues of disadvantage and underachievement of different groups.
Our approach to equality is based on the following key principles:
1. All learners are of equal value.
2. We recognise and respect difference.
3. We foster positive attitudes and relationships and a shared sense of cohesion and belonging.
4. We observe good equalities practice in staff recruitment, retention and development.
5. We aim to reduce and remove inequalities and barriers that already exist.
6. We have the highest expectations of all our children.
We eliminate discrimination by:
– Adoption of the single Equality Scheme.
– Our behaviour policy ensures that all children feel safe at school and addresses prejudicial bullying.
– Reporting, responding to and monitoring all racist incidents.
– Regularly monitoring the curriculum to ensure that the curriculum meets the needs of our pupils and that it promotes respect for diversity and challenges negative stereotyping.
– Teaching is of the highest quality to ensure children reach their potential and all pupils are given equal entitlement to success.
– Tracking pupil progress to ensure that all children make rapid progress, and intervening when necessary.
– Ensuring that all pupils have the opportunity to access extra-curricular provision.
Listening to and monitoring views and experiences of pupils and adults to evaluate the effectiveness of our policies and procedures.
– Advancing equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it.
We advance equality of opportunity by:
– Using the information we gather to identify underachieving groups or individuals and plan targeted intervention.
– Ensuring participation of parents/carers and pupils in school development.
– Listening to parents/carers.
– Listening to pupils at all times.
– Fostering good relations across all characteristics – between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it.
As a school we also acknowledge the need to have objectives in order to ensure that we are able to address any areas where there are either inequalities or perceived inequalities.
To view CIT’s Equality Objectives, and Equality Opportunities & Diversity for employees, pupils and parents, please use the button below.
