equal opportunities policy - Framlingham Sir Robert Hitchams CEVA ...

At Framlingham Sir Robert Hitcham’s CEVAP School we are concerned with justice forall, raising expectations and enabling each individual to have a wider choice in life andthe opportunity to fulfil his or her potential.OUR GENERAL SCHOOL AIMS ARE TO:• Provide an environment that is caring, nurturing and supportive for all those who workin our school.• Provide a curriculum that enables children to acquire the knowledge and skills to fitthem for adult life.• Treat the children as individuals where each child will be encouraged to realise his orher full potential.• Relate the school to the wider community of the area it serves.• Encourage a spiritual awareness in the children through close links with local churches– in the villages as well as the town – assemblies, community linked charity eventsand formal RE lessons.STATEMENT OF MISSION IN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIESAt this school we endeavour to provide an environment where every member of the school isregarded as being of equal worth and importance; where there is freedom from discriminationon grounds of race, gender, language, religion, class, lifestyle, cultural background, age,disability or special learning needs.Equal opportunities are the right of everyone; pupils, teaching and non-teaching staff,parents, governors and those in the larger community in which our school is found.Such opportunities give equal chances to all, where each individual is valued and respectedfor who they are.Our buildings are arranged on several levels with connecting flights of stairs. We recognisethat these physical arrangements may be extremely difficult for people with some disabilities.However, all effort is made to accommodate them.CURRICULUM AND MANAGEMENT ISSUESThe staff at the school are careful to provide positive support for individual children in allareas of need be they linguistic, conceptual, social physical or pastoral.With this support all children are given equal access to the National Curriculum includingPhysical Activity. We realise that monitoring and recording progress are important aspects ofequal opportunity. SAT results, 6+, 8+, 10+ reading scores and teacher assessment arerecorded, monitored and evaluated. We are aware of the present national trend for girls toachieve relatively better than boys and we endeavour to assist and support all children who2