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The Cambridge Primary School

The Cambridge

Primary School

Equality and Equity

The Equality Act became law in 2010. It covers everyone in Britain and protects people from discrimination, harassment and victimisation. Everyone in Britain is protected. This is because the Equality Act protects people against discrimination because of the protected characteristics that we all have. Under the Equality Act, there are nine Protected Characteristics:

  1. Age
  2. Disability
  3. Gender reassignment
  4. Race
  5. Religion or belief
  6. Marriage or civil partnership
  7. Sex
  8. Sexual orientation
  9. Pregnancy and maternity

The Cambridge Primary School prides itself on being an inclusive school that cares for every individual child. In doing so, we promote and deliver a range of strategies to ensure that we comply with the Public Sector Equality Duty.

The 9 Protected Characteristics are actively promoted in our school through:

  • Our school vision and ethos statements, SDP, and SEF
  • Our school behaviour policy
  • Conscious role modelling by all adults in the school community
  • Active engagement and communication with parents and carers, embracing our diverse community
  • Providing workshops e.g Internet Safety, behaviour support strategies and phonics, that are inclusive to all parents
  • The Cambridge Primary upholds and teaches children about Fundamental British Values alongside our school values: Respect, Honesty, Responsibility, Happiness, Teamwork and Excellence as part of evolving curriculum and weekly assemblies.
  • Our school fosters our own learning characteristics of being brave, innovative, collaborative and taking ownership through carefully planned activities that encourage children to develop as individuals alongside academic knowledge and skills.
  • Promoting tolerance, mutual respect and understanding through religious festival days e.g to celebrate Diwali children and parents are actively encouraged to speak to the school community, sharing rituals and traditional stories.
  • Learning about significant people who represent the protected characteristics and challenging stereotyping and discrimination is embedded within our history curriculum e.g Rosa Parks, Neil Armstrong and Amelia Earhart
  • Developing a love of reading through a range of authors and genres
  • Promoting articulation by building appropriate language and a coherent vocabulary
  • Personal, Social, Health and Economic education (PSHE) sessions and RSE lessons
  • Religious Education and World Views (RAW) lessons
  • Art projects and visits
  • School Council: the children are from different year groups and the group is formed of pupils from a range of backgrounds. The children understand democracy and the voting system. They understand that their views will be listened to, and they are able to use their voices to make changes to the school and our local and wider community. For example, our school council representatives reviewed our school uniform and made changes to ensure it was comfortable and equal for all children.

For more on how we actively promote the 9 protected characteristics, click here.

Equality Objectives

The Equality Act 2010 requires us to publish specific and measurable equality objectives. Our equality objectives are based on our school’s context and analysis of data and other information.

Our equality objectives focus on those areas where we have agreed to take action to improve equality and tackle disadvantages. We will regularly review the progress we are making to meet our equality objectives.

Our objectives are:

1. To CLOSE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP FOR DISADVANTAGED PUPILS. 

Target:

To reduce the gap in attainment between disadvantaged pupils and their peers in reading, writing and maths by July 2030.

Actions: 

  • Targeted intervention programmes for disadvantaged pupils.
  • Enhanced staff training on supporting disadvantaged learners
  • Regular pupil progress meeting focusing on vulnerable groups
  • Increased access to enrichment activities for disadvantaged pupils

Monitoring:

  • Termly analysis of assessment data
  • Annual review by governors

2. Improve accessibility and inclusion for pupils with send. 

 Target:

To ensure 100% of pupils with SEND have appropriate reasonable adjustments in place and feel fully included in school life by July 2030.

Actions: 

  • Annual audit of accessibility across the school environment
  • Enhanced training for all staff on SEND and inclusive teaching practices
  • Regular consultation with pupils with SEND and their families
  • Development of a peer support programme

Monitoring:

  • Termly SEND reviews
  • Annual pupil and parent surveys
  • Governor visits

3. foster good relationships and celebrate diversity across the school community. 

Target:

To ensure curriculum content and school displays reflect the diversity of our community and British society, with all pupils reporting they feel valued and respected by July 2030.

Actions: 

  • Audit and enhance curriculum content to ensure diverse representation
  • Develop a programme of cultural celebrations and diversity events
  • Implement restorative approaches to address discriminatory incidents
  • Establish a pupil equality group to champion diversity

Monitoring:

  •  Annual curriculum review
  • Pupil voice surveys
  • Incident logs
  • Governor monitoring visits 
 

  1. Equality Policy 2026 - 2028.PDF File

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