Equality and Diversity
Equality and diversity is the concept of accepting and promoting people’s differences. The fundamental goal when promoting equality is to raise awareness and make sure that all individuals are treated equally and fairly. This is regardless of their age, gender, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or race.
We aim to promote diversity in the classroom to help pupils recognise and respect people’s differences and to create an all-inclusive atmosphere. Our goal is to create an inclusive classroom environment – a safe place without prejudice – where pupils have the opportunity to thrive. Teaching and raising awareness of diversity works to highlight individual characteristics and traits that make people unique rather than different. Pupils need to have an understanding of equality and human rights. This knowledge helps them to understand how they should be treated and how to treat others. When we promote equality and teach these topics in our academy, we create a safe environment for our pupils to challenge, discuss, explore, and form lasting values, morals, and opinions. When pupils are taught to respect diversity, they gain knowledge and understanding that can help them to improve relationships, tackle prejudice, and make positive decisions throughout their lives. We aim for our pupils to successfully socialise into our diverse society with positive and open-minded attitudes. Our academy is committed to the active promotion of equality and opportunity for all. We are an inclusive alternative provision academy and we focus on the wellbeing and progress of every pupil and promote all members of our community to be of equal worth.
Our equality objectives are:
Reduce the attendance gap between boys and girls.
We aim to increase the average attendance of the cohort of girls in the academy.
To achieve this objective we plan to:
- Monitor the attendance of all vulnerable groups half termly
- Assess barriers to attendance for girls and their families
- Analyse barriers and produce an action plan for individual pupils or groups of girls
- Provide relevant interventions for girls based on their identified barriers
Objective 2:
Encourage girls to consider non-stereotyped career options.
We aim to expose all pupils regardless of gender to all different career types and reduce any stereotyped thinking towards careers.
To achieve this objective we plan to:
- Monitor the post 16 destinations of all pupils
- Provide a wide variety of careers examples within our dedicated careers advice to pupils
- Seek all available opportunities for all pupils to engage in work experience or vocational AP regardless of gender
- Encourage pupils to consider all future career options by teaching about stereotypical careers in the curriculum to remove these barriers.
- Ensuring that all staff are aware of the equality policy on induction.
Encourage girls to consider non-stereotyped career options. We aim to expose all pupils regardless of gender to all different career types and reduce any stereotyped thinking towards careers.
Objective 3:
Increase the number of outcomes for girls.
We aim to increase the average number of outcomes for girls to be in line with the average for the boys and the year 11 cohort year on year.
To achieve this objective we plan to:
- Encourage Functional Skills exam completion from as soon as pupils come to roll
- Curriculum Lead to analyse progress half termly
- Subject teachers to identify trends for girls and intervene to ensure progress is made
