At St James and St John Church of England Primary School we value ‘all God’s children’ and treat them as equals. We are committed to promoting equality of education and opportunity for all stakeholders, eliminating discrimination and harassment, valuing diversity and promoting positive relationships.

We believe diversity is a strength which should be respected and celebrated by all. We aim to develop a culture of inclusion and diversity in which the whole school community can feel proud of their identity, have a sense of belonging and flourish and prosper in all aspects of their life.

Equalities Objectives 2025

• Challenge stereotypes and discrimination to develop a greater understanding within the school community of equality and protected characteristics.
• Develop processes around transition for all pupils, including those with protected characteristics to ensure that appropriate advice, guidance and support is in place to ensure successful transition to next steps
• To enable all pupils, including those in groups with protected characteristics, to make a positive contribution to school life.

Equality objectives 2022

• By July 2022, to audit our reading resources to eliminate negative images of people with protected characteristics and by July 2024 to increase the positive images of people with protected characteristics within our reading resource and curriculum.

Our reading resources have been audited to eliminate negative images of people with protected characteristics.

• Monitor and analyse achievement and progress data with regard to gender, race and SEN by July 2022, and report on this to staff and the curriculum committee of the governing board. Act on any trends or patterns in the data that require additional support for pupils.

Data has been analysed with regard to gender, race and SEN. This has been shared with staff and governors. Additional support and quality first teaching is being implemented for those pupils who require addtional support.

• To increase the understanding and appreciation for diversity through the curriculum, collective worship, visitors and celebration days.

Our newly planned curriculum will aid us with this objective. We celebrated Holi as a whole school and are hoping to have more visitors to school .