Equality Act Three-year Accessibility Plan 2023-2025

Attachment to the Disability Accessibility Policy
Aims and objectives:
1)

To plan for improvements to ensure that all pupils, staff, parents and visitors can have access to the curriculum, premises and information.

2)

To insure that no-one is discriminated against.

Definitions:
Where in the document it is stated "people with protected characteristics" the following characteristics are meant: age, disability, gender reassignment,
marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity,race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation.
People with a disability': A person (P) has a disability if - (a) P has a physical or mental impairment, and (b) the impairment has a substantial and long-term
adverse effect on P's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.' (Equality Act 2010)

Activity and Proposed Action

How will the impact of
the action bemonitored?

WhoWhenSuccess Criteria

1

Publish and promote the Equality Plan
Website will be updated
through the school website, newsletter
regularly.
and staff meetings. All staff are aware of Termly newsletters
Headteacher designated Throughout each school
the school's 'Single Equality Plan'. Staff to Designated staff
member of staff
year - once a term
continually be involved in the future
meetings
development of the plan.

Staff are familiar with theprinciples of the Equality
Plan and use them whenplanning lessons, creatingclassroom displays.
Parents are aware of theEquality Plan.

2Monitor and analyse pupil achievement Achievement databy protected characteristics and disability analysed by protectedand act on any trends or patterns in the characteristics anddata that require additional support for disability
pupils. Extra support will be provided for
those pupils who are under-achieving in Iterventions to support
to make progress in the learning and their agreed at Student
personal well-being.
Progress Meetings

Analysis of teacher
assessments / annual data
demostrates that there is
no gap between various
groups or that the gap isnarrowing for equality
groups.

EqualityAct3yearplan202306６月委員会承認後.xlsx

Headteacher and Deputy
Each Term end
headteacher

5

3

Icrease in pupil's
Ensure that the curriculum promotes role
participation, confidence
models and heroes that young people
and achievement levels
positively identify with, which reflects theSubject Area- monitor through lesson
school's diversity in terms of protected
Leaders
evaluations, assessments,characteristics.
Form teacher
progress tracking, theThis in turn will help pupils to understandpupil council and annual
and value others and value diversity.
pupil questionnairs

4

Ensure when recruiting new members ofstaff, no discrimination is made against
pregnancy (absense for medical visits,sickness, maternity leave)

5

Increase in pupil
Ensure that displays in classrooms andparticipation, cofidence
corridors promote diversity in terms ofand positive identity protected characteristics such as race,
monitor through PSHE,gender, religion or belief, LGBT, andother subjects (ex.
ethnicity in order to highlight the diversity English, Japanese, art,of the school and the wider diversity ofDT), pupil council, pupil
the community in which they live.
questionnaires andparent questionnaires

EqualityAct3yearplan202306６月委員会承認後.xlsx

All absences will berecorded and moitored,and staff will not be
penalised for any
absences due to suchcircumstances.

Headteacher
Secretary

All teachers

Throughout eachacademic school year
Annual reviews ofschemes of work andaudit of resources

Notable increase inparticipation andconfidence of targetedgroupsThroughout eachacademic school year once a term

All staff are aware ofprocedures regardnig
absences

Each Term end

More diversity reflected inschool displays across all
year groups, particularly toreflect the diversity of thewider community which ismuch wider than thediversity of the schoolcommunity.

5

6

Ensure all pupils are given thePupil council
opportunity to make a positive
representation
cotribution to the life of the school e.g.
monitored by protected
through involvement in the pupil council
characteristics andby election or co-option, class assemblies,disability
fund raising, etc.

All teachers

Throughout eachacademic school year

More diversity in pupil
council membership

Throughout eachacademic school year

Increased awareness ofdifferent communities
shown in lessos (PSHE, art,English, etc.) andassemblies

Planning of curriculum
enrichmet activities

7

Increase pupil awareness andunderstanding of different communities

Monitor quality ofdisplays throughout theschool

Curriculum Leader

Participation in lessons(PSHE, art English, etc.)

89Monitor extra-curricular
The school has an inclusive approach toand club attendance
ensuring all pupils are given theregisters for different
opportunity to make a positive
groups of pupils andcotribution to the life of the school e.g.
compile data into an
through involvemet in the School Council,
annual report to theclass assemblies, positions ofheadteacher and theresponsibility and extra-curricular
School Management
activities.
Committee.

Curriculum Leader
Notable increase in
Twice an academic school
Extra-curricular activities
participation and cofidence
year
leaderof targeted groups

Identify parents who have disabilities that Write to parents ancould affect their interaction with theexplanation to request
school.
information.

School aware of and able
to meet need of disabledparents in relation to theirchildren's progress inschoolEqualityAct3yearplan202306６月委員会承認後.xlsx

Parents

When parents apply forschool5

10Make reasonable adjustments byassessing and improving the working
environment for any pupils or staff withvisual or hearing impairment, or otheridentified disability

e.g. review signagearound the school;
incorporate appropriate
colour and lighting
schemes whenrefurbishing.
Seek advice from theFit acoustic leads inschool surveyors
classrooms whereneeded.
Provide pupils with visual
impairment or dyslexia
with a laptop computerfor daily work.

Autumn term of eachacademic school year

Disabled Pupils able towork independently in allteaching areas
Disabled staff able to fulfill
their responsibilities

Make reasonable adjustments to thepremises accessible to users with slopes
and disabled toilets.

11Check that all users canaccess the ground floor
Make reasonable adjustments for visitors,
through the ramp
and allocate staff who help them while at
Headteacher, Deputy
the school premises, including during
Write a fire evacuation
headteacher, Secretary
emergencies.
plan where a nominatedpeople are to help
Make reasonable adjustments toevacuate disabled users
classroom allocation may be changed if
in an event of fire.
necessary to accommodate the needs ofthe disabled.

EqualityAct3yearplan202306６月委員会承認後.xlsx

Facilities to help thedisables are to bechecked of its functionDisabled pupils do nothave difficulties in theiractivities at school
Disabled visitors do nothave difficulties to achieve
their visiting purposes

512Monitor and analyse SEN attendance andbehaviour data by protectedcharacteristics and disability and act on
any trends or patterns in the data thatAttedance and behavior
require additional support for the pupils. data analysed byExtra supprt will be provided for those
protected characteristics Headteacher
SEN pupils who are poor attendees orand disability.
The School Management Each Term end
arrive late in school.
Interventions to support Committee
Monitor records of incidents, including
agreed at Pupil Progress
bullying incidents and act on any trends in Meetings
the data that indicate overrepresentation of any of the equality
groups.

EqualityAct3yearplan202306６月委員会承認後.xlsx

Analysis of school
attendance and behaviour/ exclusion data
demostrates that noparticular group is overrepresented.

5