Equality Objective Statement
Hampton Primary School is committed to ensuring equality of education and opportunity for all pupils, staff, parents and carers, irrespective of race, gender, disability, belief, religion or socio-economic background.
The Equality Act 2010 requires us to publish information that demonstrates that we have due regard for the need to:
At Hampton Primary School and Hedgehogs Nursery we pride ourselves on being an inclusive school where we focus on the well being, personal development, progress and attainment of every child and where all members of our community are of equal worth.
We believe that the Equality Act provides a framework to support our commitment to valuing diversity, tackling discrimination, promoting equality and fostering good relationships between people. It also ensures that we continue to tackle issues of disadvantage and underachievement of different groups.
Our approach to equality is based on the following key principles:
Equality Objectives
At Hampton Primary School and Nursery, we are committed to ensuring equality of education and opportunity for all pupils, staff, parents and carers, irrespective of race, gender, disability, belief, religion or socio-economic background.
In order to further support pupils, raise standards and ensure inclusive teaching, we have set the following objectives:-
Objective 1: To monitor and analyse pupil achievement by race, gender and disability
and act on any trends or patterns in the data that require additional support for pupils.
Objective 2: To raise levels of attainment and achievement in core subjects for vulnerable learners.
Objective 3: To review levels of parental and pupil engagement in learning and school life, across all activities to ensure equity and fairness in access and engagement.
Equality Information
Number of pupils on roll at the school: 702
Age of pupils: 3 to 11
Information on pupils by protected characteristics
The Equality Act 2010 protects people from discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics. Every person has several of the protected characteristics, so the Act protects everyone against unfair treatment. In order to ensure that all pupils are protected from discrimination, the school collects information on protected characteristics.
Information on other groups of pupils
In addition to pupils with protected characteristics, we gather further information on the following groups of pupils:
Eliminating discrimination and other conduct that is prohibited by the Act
The information provided here aims to demonstrate that we give careful consideration to equality issues in everything that we do at Hampton Primary School. ‘Due regard’ ensures that we work towards eliminating discrimination, harassment and victimisation and other conduct that is prohibited by the Equality Act.
We are committed to working for equality for all our staff, parents/carers and children to meet our duties under the Equality Act 2010.
We eliminate discrimination by:
Advancing and promoting equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it within our school and within our wider community
We advance equality of opportunity by:
Hampton Primary School seeks to take proportionate steps to help individuals and groups of pupils to overcome barriers in their learning and access to the full range of school provision. We make reasonable adjustments e.g. provision of auxiliary aids, Sats access arrangements, augmented communication and increased supervision to support these pupils.
Fostering good relations across all characteristics - between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it
We foster good relations by: