What initiative(s) have you put in place as a result of your participation in the Equally Safe programme?
Working with EqualiTeach this past year has helped to shape our policies and practice at St James, and also developed both the children and staff’s understanding of prejudice; what it looks like and how we respond to it. We have reviewed and changed our behaviour policy since working on the Equally Safe project, and devised and begun using a reporting technique via Arbor.
Our Agents for Change have worked hard to evaluate the schools behaviour policy and create their own, child friendly version. They have enjoyed leading assemblies to the rest of the school to introduce concepts, and supported the other children to reflect on these ideas and scenarios. They decided for their project that they wanted to produce motivational posters to be displayed around the school to support children who might be experiencing prejudice. The children have planned and designed these posters, working well together; the posters have now been professionally published and displayed around the school.
We are in the process now of embedding the work we have done so far, by thoroughly auditing our subjects and developing a new action plan for our next steps. The impact of this work has led us to be much more thorough in our management of prejudice related incidents that occur in school with a robust reporting tool being used, and the children’s understanding of prejudice and the range that there is being developed thoroughly.
The quality support and guidance we have received has enabled us to grow and flourish in creating a diverse and tolerant environment for all.
Alyssa De Luca- St James VA Primary School
Testimonial
“We have gained so much at our school from working with the team at EqualiTeach this past year. The quality support and guidance we have received has enabled us to grow and flourish in creating a diverse and tolerant environment for all. It has had a huge impact throughout our school, from evaluating policies to implementing new practice and creating leadership roles for our children as Agents for Change.”
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