Peatmoor Community Primary School

"The culture of the school embraces fairness and equality and leaders are quick to challenge unkind words or actions." Ofsted 2017

Peatmoor Community Primary School
Equality Objectives 2020-2024

Peatmoor Community Primary School is committed to ensuring equality of provision throughout our school.
There are a number of statutory duties that must be met by every school in line with legislation from the Race Relations Amendment Act 2000, Disability Equality Duty 2005 and Equality Act 2010.

Peatmoor Community Primary School is committed to meeting its public sector duties and acknowledges that we have a statutory duty to:

• Eliminate discrimination, harassment and victimisation.
• Promote equality of access and opportunity within our school and within our wider community.
• Promote positive attitudes to difference and good relationships between people with different backgrounds, genders, cultures, faiths, abilities and ethnic origins.

The Leadership Team and Governors at Peatmoor Community Primary School regularly review the progress that we are making to meet our equality objectives with regard to protected groups (race, disability, gender reassignment, age, pregnancy and maternity, marital status, sexual orientation and religion and belief.) under the Equality Act 2010.

Equality Objectives

At Peatmoor Community Primary School we are committed to ensuring equality of education and opportunity for all pupils, staff parents and carers, irrespective of race, gender, disability, belief, religion or socio-economic background.
In order to further support pupils, raise standards and ensure inclusive teaching, we have set the following objectives:-

• Objective 1: to continue to monitor and analyse pupil achievement by race, gender and disability and act upon any trends or patterns in this data that require additional support for pupils. (School Development Plan)
• Objective 2: to accelerate progress in English and Maths for vulnerable learners by providing focused and individual support. (School Development Plan)
• Objective 3: to raise awareness of the definition of bullying (especially within vulnerable groups) and how to tackle this with the support of the school community (School Development Plan)
• Objective 4: to review levels of parental and pupil engagement in learning and school life, across all activities to ensure equity and fairness in access and engagement.
• Objective 5: to ensure the school environment is as accessible as possible to pupils, staff and visitors.
• Objective 6: – to review the timings of Sports’ Clubs to ensure equality and fairness in access and engagement (Sports’ Funding document)

This policy is supported within the School Development Plan and our Sports’ Funding document