Statement

Orchard Primary and Pre-School is committed to ensuring equality of provision throughout the school community. To achieve this, our equality objectives are as follows:

• To ensure the school environment is as accessible as possible to pupils, staff and visitors to the school.
• To ensure that all pupils make good progress, including vulnerable groups.
• To ensure that there are sufficient opportunities within the school's curriculum to address equality issues.
• To continue to ensure that displays are reflective of the school community.
• To monitor bullying and harassment of pupils and staff by any protected characteristic as outlined in the Equality Act 2010 and use this information to make a difference to the experience of other pupils and staff.
• To ensure that all pupils are given similar opportunities with regard to clubs.
• To allow equal access to information for all parents.

Equality Act Advice for Schools