The Equality Act 2010 requires us to publish information that demonstrates that we have due regard for the need to:

• Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment, victimisation and any other conduct prohibited by the Equality Act 2010
• Advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it
• Foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it.

Exhall Junior School is an inclusive school where we focus on the well-being and progress 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:
 
1. All learners are of equal value
2. We recognise and respect difference
3. We foster positive attitudes and relationships and a shared sense of cohesion and belonging.
4. We observe good equalities practice in staff recruitment, retention and development.
5. We aim to reduce and remove inequalities and barriers that already exist.
6. We have the highest expectations of all our children.
 
Equality Information
Number of students on roll at the school: 152
Age of students: 7 to 11

Information on students 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 students are protected from discrimination, the school collects information on protected characteristics.

Information on other groups of students
In addition to students with protected characteristics, we gather further information on the following groups of students:

• Students eligible for Free School Meals (FSM)
• Students with Special Educational Needs (SEN)
• Disadvantaged group
• Students with English as an Additional Language (EAL)
• Young carers
• Looked after children
• Other vulnerable groups

It may be possible to identify individuals from the information provided when the number of students with a particular characteristic is low and the information is sensitive personal information. In these cases we have indicated this by an asterisk*.  

Race/Ethnicity	%
Any other Asian background	3.2%
Any other ethnic group	2.7%
Any other mixed background	*
Any other White background	11.9%
Black - African	2.7%
Black Caribbean	*
Chinese	*
Indian	20.1%
Pakistani	1.6%
White and Asian	2.1%
White and Black African	*
White and Black Caribbean	3.2%
White British	49.9%

 

Group	Number
Students with English as an Additional Language (EAL)	37
Children who are Looked After   2	2
Students with Special Educational Needs (SEN)     24	24
Students eligible for Pupil Premium Funding    40	40
Students eligible for Free School Meals (FSM)    35	35
Gender	51 male  49 female

Through rigorous tracking and monitoring of individuals and of all the groups of children, including progress and attainment, and by providing equal opportunities to access the curriculum and activities, we aim to ensure that any gap in attainment for students within any of the above different groups is removed, or at least remains less than the gap nationally.
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 Exhall Junior 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:

 

• Adoption of the single Equality Scheme
• Our Relationship Policy, formally called the behaviour policy, ensures that all children feel safe at school and addresses prejudicial bullying
• Reporting, responding to and monitoring all racist incidents
• Regularly monitoring the curriculum to ensure that the curriculum meets the needs of our students and that it promotes respect for diversity and          challenges negative stereotyping
• Teaching is of the highest quality to ensure children reach their potential and all students are given equal entitlement to success
• Tracking student progress to ensure that all children make rapid progress, and intervening when necessary
• Ensuring that all students have the opportunity to access extra-curricular provision
• Listening to and monitoring views and experiences of students and adults to evaluate the effectiveness of our policies and procedures.

Advancing equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it
We advance equality of opportunity by:

 

• Using the information we gather to identify underachieving groups or individuals and plan targeted intervention
• Ensuring participation of  parents/carers and students in school development
• Listening to parents/carers
• Listening to students at all times

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:

 

• Ensuring that Exhall Junior School is seen as a community school within our local community
• Ensuring that equality and diversity are embedded in the curriculum and in collective worship.

Equality Objectives 
At Exhall Junior School, we are committed to ensuring equality of education and opportunity for all students, staff, parents and carers, irrespective of race, gender, disability, belief, religion or socio-economic background.
In order to further support students, raise standards and ensure inclusive teaching, we
have set  the following objectives:-

Objective 1: To monitor and analyse student achievement by race, gender and disability
and act on any trends or patterns in the data that require additional support for students.
 
Objective 2: To raise levels of attainment in core subjects for vulnerable learners. The attainment gap between disadvantaged students and non to reduce year on year to meet a target of negligible difference by the end of 2022/23
 
Objective 3: By July 2020 95% of staff will feel confident in responding effectively to an incident relating to Prevent as shown by the end of year staff survey.