Equality Statement
At St. Michael's CofE Primary Academy, we understand equality to mean treating everyone with equal dignity and worth, valuing their particular characteristics such as age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation and socio-economic circumstances.
We understand that people have different needs, situations and goals. Achieving equality requires the removal of discriminatory barriers which may limit what people, especially children and young people, can do and can be. We recognise that inequality can be experienced in a variety of ways, affecting progress, access to services and independence in making life's decisions; ultimately affecting lives and creating inequality of treatment. Inequality can exist in employment opportunities, through direct and indirect discrimination and disadvantage, imposed by other individuals, groups, institutions or systems intentionally or inadvertently.
Our commitment to equality is demonstrated through our Aims Statement: 'In our loving, learning community, we take the wisdom each child brings and nurture it through a curriculum based on our lived values and driven by excellence, faith and pride in who we are; so that all can live their best lives,' highlighting our commitment to the individual. This is further underpinned by our school value, respect: 'we respect all those in our world.'
Key Documents
BDMAT Equality and Diversity Objectives 2022/23
The BDMAT objectives are:
Objective 1: To improve the attainment and progress made by pupils from BAME heritages in order that their achievements are in line with ‘all’ pupils nationally
Objective 2: To improve the recruitment, retention, progression, development and experience of the people employed by BDMAT to enable the organisation to become an inclusive employer of choice.
Objective 3: To ensure that all new staff joining BDMAT have unconscious bias and anti-racism training and ensure that all existing staff receive this training by January 2022
Objective 4: To ensure that the curricular in BDMAT schools reflects BAME history and culture and uses LGBTQ+ role models
