Lordsgate Township Equality Information

At Lordsgate, we seek to value everyone and our school is committed to equality in practice. We welcome and embrace our legal duties to eliminate discrimination and to promote community and equality of opportunity for everybody. The Equality Act 2010 requires the school to publish information that demonstrates that we have due regard to:

• Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment, victimisation, and any other conduct prohibited by the Equality Act 2010

• Advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic (race, disability, gender, gender re-assignment, age, pregnancy and maternity, marital status, religion and belief and sexual orientation) and people who do not share it

• Foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it.

The Equality Act brings together previous legislation concerned with race, gender and disability and aims to ensure that:

• All adults and children treat each other with respect

• All groups of pupils make at least good progress and that employment practice is fair and does not discriminate

• Lordsgate Church of England Primary School is a school committed to producing pupils who are good citizens

We have considered how well we currently achieve these aims with regard to protected groups under the Equality Act and we have also involved staff, pupils, parents, and others in the following ways:

• All staff and children in school have the right to be respected, the right to learn and right to be safe and this is embedded in all aspects of school life.

• The school has a clear pastoral system; School Council, access to mentoring and counselling services, Behaviour for Learning Policy 

• Questionnaires to gain feedback from pupils, parents and carers, governors and staff

• Workshop sessions open to all parents in areas such as reading, phonics, numeracy, and E - safety

• Ensure pupils with additional needs make at least good progress

• The school curriculum is designed to enable children to understand and respect diversity

• Fully integrate our disabled pupils into mainstream and closely monitor their needs to ensure positive outcomes

• Positive behaviour strategies

• A building adapted to meet the needs of all its pupils

• All racist, discriminative incidents are recorded and dealt with sensitively

Lordsgate Township Church of England Primary School is committed to ensuring equality of provision throughout the school community.  

To this end here are our the equality objectives for Lordsgate School:

• Lordsgate Curriculum to offer a diverse and culturally rich experience to the pupil by ensuring all races, religions and genders are represented within our curriculum.
• To continue to develop a culture of challenging prejudice, stereotyping and injustice
• To ensure that worship and spirituality is threaded into the strands of vision and that children encounter a diverse range of different worship and spiritual experiences.
• To have clearly signed and easily accessible building with reasonable adjustments to support SEND and disabled pupils and visitors
• Trauma informed training for staff to inform behaviour policy and practice and support the needs of all pupils. 
• To ensure that the website is accessible by all. Ensuring that we have translated key documents available, larger prints and printed on different colours
• Ensure all children attend, school knowing that children with emotional and SEND needs are less likely to attend.