St Elphin's CE Primary School

St Elphin's CE VA Primary School will promote equal opportunity and will eliminate inequality in any area of the school's life or work. All will be treated equally and given equal access to the curriculum and life of the school. All will have equal opportunity to benefit from all that the school offers. Our school is proud of its ethos in which we foster excellent relationships between all, so that all can thrive. Diversity and difference are valued and respected and provide opportunities to enrich our school life and learning.

Under the Equality Act 2010, we welcome our general duty to

• Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and any other conduct prohibited by The Equality Act 2010
• Advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic (Sex (gender), race, disability, religion or belief, gender reassignment, sexual orientation or pregnancy or maternity. Age and marriage and civil partnership are also protected characteristics) and people who do not share it.
• Foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it.

We recognise our specific duties which aims to assist us to meet our general duty -

• To annually publish information on how we are complying with the PSED (Public Sector Equality Duty)
• To publish equality objectives every four years, which show how we plan to tackle particular inequalities and reduce or remove them.

In fulfilling the legal obligations above, we are guided by the following principles:

Objective 1: To monitor (termly) and analyse pupil achievement and progress by race, gender, economic background (PPG) and disability, acting on patterns in the data where additional support/challenge is required, responding appropriately.

Objective 2: Respond to observations and baseline assessment as pupils arrive in school with speech and language needs and address shortfalls in age appropriate vocabulary across school.

Objective 3:  To develop and embed a respectful understanding and appreciation of the characteristics of positive relationships, with particular reference to all friendships, family relationships, and relationships with other children and with adults.

Objective 4:  To provide opportunities for the child’s voice to be heard.