Springfield Primary School Equalities

Springfield is committed to Equality

We do our best to ensure that everyone is treated fairly and respectfully.

We make sure that our school is a safe and secure place for everyone.

We recognise that people have different needs, and we understand that treating people equally does not always involve treating them the same.

We aim are to provide for all children and their families:

Full access to the curriculum

Full access to the physical environment

Full access to information 

We aim to make sure that no-one experiences less favourable treatment or discrimination because of:

• As a school we aim to make sure that no-one experiences less favourable  treatment or discrimination because of:
• Their age
• Their disability
• Their disability
• Their gender identity (they have reassigned or plan to reassign their
• gender)
• Their marital or civil partnership status
• Their being pregnant or having recently had a baby
• Their race
• Their sex
• Their religion or belief
• Their sexual identity and orientation.

We recognise that some pupils need extra support to help them to achieve and be successful.

We try to make sure that people from different groups are consulted and are involved in our decisions, especially pupils, parents and those of us who can be treated less favourably.

We welcome our duties

• To promote community cohesion (under the Education and Inspections Act (2006)
• To eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations (under the Equality Act 2010)

We also welcome the emphasis of Ofsted inspections on the importance of accelerating the progress of pupils from groups who are underachieving.

As part of our duties we will:

• Publish information every year about our school population
• Outline how we have due regard for equality and how we promote community
• cohesion
• Publish equality objectives to show how we plan to tackle particular
• inequalities and improve what we do.

Equality Objectives 2024 - 2028 

Objective 1: Introduce principles from the No Outsiders charity to support pupils understanding of the diverse community in which they live, developing tolerance and acceptance of all. .

Objective 2: To work with staff and governors to publish documentation to support the teaching of Equalities across the whole school.

As a school we will continue to assess and monitor the progress of all groups of pupils to ensure all achieve thier full potential. 

Equalities Policy

Equalities Document - information and objectives

Equalities - annual information