Equalities
Roberttown CE (VC) J&I School is committed to:
- Challenging discrimination and harassment whenever they occur.
- Promoting equality of access and opportunity within our school and the wider community.
- Promoting positive attitudes to differences between people of different backgrounds, genders, sexual orientation, ethnic origins, cultures,
- faiths and capabilities.
At our school we try to ensure that everyone is treated fairly and respectfully. We want to make sure that our school is a safe and secure place for everyone. People have different needs and we understand that treating people equally does not always mean treating them the same.
Equality Objectives
Objective 1:
To improve signage around school
Why we have chosen this objective: To ensure the signage around school is more inclusive and accessible to improve communication.
To achieve this objective we plan to: Audit existing signage, source and cost signage that provides information in a variety of ways to aid accessibility.
Objective 2:
Widen knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity knowledge through studying a variety of significant people.
Why we have chosen this objective: Broaden children’s knowledge and understanding of diversity and equality, ensuring a range of characteristics are represented.
To achieve this objective we plan to: Identify opportunities within the curriculum to study a range of significant people from a breadth of characteristics.
Equality and Accessibility Plan Impact Statement 2025
Curriculum
- School environment and displays reflect an inclusive approach – reduced cognitive load, consistent across school.
- A selection of chromebooks are available for identified children to support with access to the curriculum.
- The SENCo attends cluster meetings to support staff knowledge and pupil provision.
- Staff access advice and guidance from outside agencies to support the range of needs within school.
- Extra curricular clubs are offered to all pupils and the participation of these are monitored.
- NTS summative assessments used to provide consistency across school.
- Attendance for academic year 24/25 was 96.6% and this was an increase from 95.97% for academic year 23/24.
Information
- Whole school Seesaw launched for parents to easily access communication electronically and in one place.
- Whole school Facebook and Instagram pages have been launched.
- Parent calendar on the school website was introduced for families to have an up to date overview of events.
- School office email address made available to parents so that communication was streamlined through one place.
- Staff have a good understanding of our families and are proactive in ensuring information and reminders are given directly, where appropriate.
- Comments Sheets are available to collect feedback and suggestions.
- Collective worship book was introduced to gain feedback from class collective worships.
Premises
- Increased security added on school front door and inner door to further improve safeguarding measures.
Next Steps:
- Further improve attendance to 97%.
- To look at potential bids to improve perimeter security and upgrade fire doors.
roberttown accessibility plan 2024 2027 v2.pdf
Our full Equality Policy can be found on our Policies page:
If you or anyone else you know have any additional needs, such as information using larger print or accessing the school, please use our contact details to let us know.
We want to be able to ensure that we are meeting the accessibility needs of all our school community.
Contact Details:
Roberttown CE (VC) J&I School
Church Road
Roberttown
WF15 8BE
Telephone: 01924 403532
Email: office@rjis.org.uk
Updated December 2023
