Staff and Governors at Georgeham CofE Primary School are committed to ensuring equality of education and opportunity for all within our school community.
One of our school values is that We Are A Community. We encourage a sense of belonging and responsibility towards each other, and endeavour to develop a culture of inclusion and diversity.
We aim to meet our obligations by ensuring there is equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it, irrespective of any protected characteristic. *
* Protected characteristic, defined as: age; disability; religion or belief; race, nationality or ethnicity; sexual orientation; gender, or gender reassignment; or marital status, pregnancy or on maternity leave.
‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ (Matthew 22 v.39)
Georgeham Equality and Diversity Policy 2024-28
Our Equality Objectives are to:
- To narrow the gap in attainment between groups of children, for example girls and boys.
- To improve the attendance between groups of children, for example White British and Ethnically diverse children.
- Improve knowledge, skills and attitudes to enable children to appreciate and value difference and diversity, for example increasing understanding between pupils from different faith communities.
- Monitor and track incidents of bullying, prejudice and racism, including reporting incidents to the local authority. Reviewing the common themes, using data to understand the link between incidents and irregular attendance, and adjust our curriculum and intervention in response.
- To provide a supportive and inclusive working environment for all, actively promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Our school values also drive us to ensure that we:
- Treat all staff and children fairly and
- Create an inclusive culture for all staff and children
- Ensure equal access to opportunities
- Make certain that learning materials do not discriminate against any individuals or groups
- Ensure policies, procedures and processes promote equality and diversity.
- Support national campaigns.
- Engage with our local community, and beyond.
- Foster good relations across all characteristics – between people who share a protected characteristic, and people who do not share it.
- Advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic* and people who do not share it.
- Eliminate discrimination and other conduct prohibited by the Act.