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We endeavour:
Community cohesion: a shared contextual statement
The school has a Church of England foundation and a Christian ethos. There are strong links with St Peter’s Church which the school visits regularly. Almost all of our children are from a White British background; therefore, we have considered this when planning our curriculum so that we can prepare children to live in a diverse world, with many different cultures and beliefs, different socio-economic backgrounds and differing levels of opportunity and future economic well-being. Our school is in the top 10% of the most deprived areas of England (Census information). The social context of the area indicates that many of our pupils come from below average social class households. Approximately 50% of our local population are single, divorced or separated and weekly earnings are lower by comparison, to other areas of Derbyshire and significantly lower than a fifth of UK households. Nearly 35% of the population 16 and over have no formal qualifications with Derbyshire having a relatively low skills base. The number of pupils eligible for Free School Meals is higher than the National average (at 51% where national is 22.5 post covid 2021). We keep a confidential register of Vulnerability, including pupils who are vulnerable in terms of Safeguarding/well-being issues or other factors which may be a barrier to learning. Many of our pupils are on this register (September 2022) which is kept under regular review. These children may be on the Child Protection or Child in Need register [or may been on the at high level in their past-pre juniors]; they may be Tier 3 EHA or school providing EHA. A number of our families require additional intervention in accessing support from CAMHS and other mental health and well-being support services. Some of our pupils have complex additional needs, including learning difficulties, emotional, behavioural and social difficulties. The number of pupils on the Special Needs register is 27%. The number of pupils with EHCP’s is currently at 9% (Autumn 2022). Our curriculum and wider provision is tailored to meet the varying needs of our pupils and their families. This includes nurture provision, counselling, positive play and emotional literacy support within school.
As a school we welcome our duties under the Equality Act 2010. The general duties are to:
We understand the principles of the act and the work needed to ensure that those with protected characteristics are not discriminated against and are given equality of opportunity.
A protected characteristic under the act covers the groups listed below:
In advancing equality of opportunity:
In order to meet our general duties, listed above, the law requires us to do some specific duties to demonstrate how we meet the general duties, these are to:
To do this we will collect data related to the protected characteristics above and analyse this data to determine our focus for our equality objectives. The data will be assessed across our core provisions as a school. This will include the following functions:
Our objectives will detail how we will ensure equality is applied to the functions listed above. However, where we find evidence that other functions have a significant impact on any particular group, we will include work in this area.
We use evaluation and data collection to inform our decision making and assess the impact on equality of our decision making, policies and practices.
We also welcome our duty under the Education Act 2011 to demonstrate how the education we provide meets the needs of the range of learners at the school.
We recognise that these duties reflect international human rights standards as expressed in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, and the Human Rights Act 1998.
In fulfilling our legal obligations we will:
Our Equality objectives are: to:-