Equality
St John’s Catholic Primary
Equality Objectives
Christ is the centre of our school community
Where we live, love and learn together.
In line with the Equalities Act, 2010 and the school’s Equality and Diversity Policy and Public Sector Equality Duty commitment statement, the following objectives demonstrate the school’s focus on providing equal and inclusive educational and non-educational services in a non-discriminatory manner for all members of our school community.
These objectives have been arrived at following discussions with members of the school community, an analysis of pupil progress and a review of the school’s developing population over recent years.
We are committed to meeting our Public Sector Equality Duty to:
(a) Eliminate discrimination, harassment, victimisation and any other conduct that is prohibited by or under this Act.
(b) Advance equality of opportunity between persons who share a relevant protected characteristic and persons who do not share it.
(c) Foster good relations between persons who share a relevant protected characteristic and persons who do not share it.
We shall achieve this through
- Implementing required policies and procedures
- Ensuring appropriate training for our staff
- School assemblies and special events
- Our curriculum and interaction with all members of our school community
- Our communications, website and publications
- Our ethos and values
- Appropriate oversight by school leaders and Governors
- Our identified school objectives
Progress against these objectives will be monitored termly by reports to Governors and will be formally reviewed annually over the next four years. The timescale and procedures for monitoring the objectives may be amended in the light of new guidance or changes to relevant legislation.
For more information please see our Equality and Diversity Policy on our policies page here.
Information about our pupil population.
As of September 2018, the total number of pupils on roll is 352
The breakdown is shown in the grid below, in addition to pupils with a protected characteristic, we have provided information on other vulnerable groups of pupils, (denoted by *)
Protected Characteristic
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Number of Pupils
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% school Population
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Girls Boys |
166 184 |
47% 53% |
Wheelchair User Hearing Impaired Visually Impaired Autism Spectrum |
2 1 13 |
0.5% 0.38% 3% |
White British Black Asian Chinese Other ethnicities |
258 20 6 5 61 |
75% 5% 2% 1% 17% |
Gay Lesbian Transgender |
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BELIEF Catholic Christian Muslim Hindu Non Religion Other religion |
263 35 14 2 6 12 |
77% 12% 4% 1% 3% 3% |
Equality Objectives and Actions
Objective | Success Criteria | Actions and Persons responsible | Timescale and monitoring |
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1. To initially further raise |
(a) To further raise staff awareness in order that all staff and governors are aware of their responsibilities under the Equalities Act 2010.
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(a) An initial whole staff training session – followed by an annual update. (b) The capturing of events, curriculum opportunities and Recognition of staff actions and initiatives through staff
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Monitoring will be by termly reports to governors and by the establishment of
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2. To ensure that all pupils |
(a) That any examples of racist or homophobic acts are reduced to nil.
(c) That pupils are more aware of the impact of sensory or physical disability on the lives of others in their local and the wider community. |
Maintained regarding any possible examples of inappropriate racist or homophobic (b) By the continuing
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Monitoring will be by termly reports to governors and evidence will be gathered Implementation and |
Equality and Diversity Curriculum
To see our PSHE curriculum programme overview (Jigsaw) please click here
Promoting Equality and Diversity
We also promote equality and diversity throughout the year using a variety of Awareness Days-
Autumn TermOctober-Black History Month 10th October- 12th October -World Sight Day 13th October -Friendship Friday 16th October- 17th October- 28th October- 12th-19th November- 13th November- 13th-19th November- 14th-18th November-Anti-Bullying Week 20th November-Universal Children’s Day 22nd November-22nd December- 3rd December- 10th December- |
Spring Term15th January- 16th January- 27th January- UNICEF Day For Change
22nd February- 27th February-12th March- 20th-26th March-Down 21st March- |
Summer Term23rd-29th April- 23rd April- 1st May- 9th May- 15th-21st May- 28th May-1st June-National Family Week 11th-15th June- 12th June- 20th-26th June- |
Reviewing Equality Objectives.
The review of the progress on our equality objectives will take place annually and will help inform how our school sets new priorities. This information will be published and made available across all platforms.
PUBLICATION
All equality policies will be published on our website and will be made available both electronically and in a hard copy format.
St John's Catholic Primary School adopt a whole school approach to equality and diversity and consider it important for pupils to learn about equality and human rights. We adhere to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) statement:
‘To reap the full benefits of equality and human rights education, it is essential to teach topics in an environment which respects the rights and differences of both students and teachers. Without an equality and human rights culture within the classroom and school as a whole , learning about these topics can at best appear irrelevant, and at worst, hypocritical. The respect and tolerance it teaches will help staff and pupils create a healthier, happier, fairer school culture and could lead to reductions in bullying and other negative behaviour and improvements in attainment and aspirations’