At Roe Green Junior School, everyone is welcomed, valued and respected as part of our school community. We celebrate diversity and foster a positive, inclusive culture where every child can thrive, achieve their full potential and feel proud of who they are. Our nurturing and supportive learning environment enables all pupils to make the greatest possible progress, ensuring every child feels safe, included and empowered to succeed.

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Our school aims to meet its obligations under the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) by having due regard to the need to:

 

• Focus on the well-being and progress of every child and where all members of our community are of equal worth.

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• Support our commitment to valuing diversity, tackling discrimination, promoting equality and fostering good relationships between people.

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• Ensure that we continue to tackle issues of disadvantage and underachievement of different groups.

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• 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.

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Our school is committed to equality both as an employer and a service provider based on the following 7 key principles:

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All learners are of equal value.

• Whether or not they are disabled, whatever their ethnicity, culture, national origin or national status, whatever their sex or gender identity, whatever their religious or non-religious affiliation or faith background and whatever their sexual orientation.

 

We recognise, respect and value difference and understand that diversity is a strength.

• We take account of differences and strive to remove barriers and disadvantages that people may face, in relation to disability, ethnicity, gender, religion, belief or faith and sexual orientation. We believe that diversity is a strength and should be respected and celebrated by all those who learn, teach and visit here.

We foster positive attitudes and relationships.

• We actively promote positive attitudes and mutual respect between groups and communities different from each other.

We foster a shared sense of cohesion and belonging.

• We want all members of our school community to feel a sense of belonging within the school and wider community and to feel that they are respected and able to participate fully in school life.

We observe good equalities practice for our staff.

• We ensure that policies and procedures benefit all employees and potential employees in all aspects of their work, including in recruitment and promotion, and in continuing professional development.

We have the highest expectations of all our children.

• We expect that all pupils can make good progress and achieve their highest potential.

We work to raise standards for all pupils, but especially for the most vulnerable.

• We believe that improving the quality of education for the most vulnerable groups of pupils raises standards across the whole school.

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Please find out Equality Policy here.

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