New Pastures Primary School 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 2010 provides a framework to support our community to valuing diversity, tackling discrimination, promoting equality and fostering good relationships between people. It ensures that we continue to tackle issues of disadvantage and underachievement of different groups.
Our approach to equality is based on the following principles:
1. All learners are of equal value
2. We recognise and respect different
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
Equality Information:
Number of pupils on roll at the school: 269
Age of pupils: 3 to 11
Information on pupils by protected characteristics:
The Equality Act 2010 protects people from discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics. Every person has several of the protected characteristics, so the Act protects everyone against unfair treatment. In order to ensure that all pupils are protected from discrimination, the school collects information on protected characteristics.
Information on other pupil groups:
In addition to pupils with protected characteristics, we gather further information on the following groups of pupils:
*Pupils eligible for Free School Meals (FSM)
*Pupils with Special Educational Needs (SEN)
*Pupils with English as an Additional Language (EAL)
Through rigorous tracking and monitoring of individuals and of all the groups of children, including progress and attainment, and by providing equal opportunities to access the curriculum and activities, we aim to ensure that any gap in attainment for pupils within any of the above different groups is removed, or at least remains less than the gap nationally.
Eliminating discrimination and other conduct that is prohibited by the Act
The information provided here aims to demonstrate that we give careful consideration to equality issues in everything that we do at New Pastures Primary School. ‘Due regard’ ensures that we work towards eliminating discrimination, harassment and victimisation and other conduct that is prohibited by the Equality Act.
We are committed to working for equality for all our staff, parents/carers and children to meet our duties under the Equality Act 2010.
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
*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
We foster good relations by:
*Ensuring that New Pastures Primary School is part of the local community
*Ensuring that equality and diversity are embedded in the curriculum and in collective worship.
New Pastures Primary’s Equality Objectives:
Objective 1: To monitor and analyse pupil achievement by race, gender, background and SEND and act on any trends or patterns that require additional support for pupils
Objective 2: To improve attendance for disadvantaged children so it is closer in line with the attendance of non-disadvantaged children and/ or the national average attendance figure
Objective 3: To ensure all members of the school community are given a sense of belonging
