Month: March 2016

Minutes 24.03.16

March 24, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Chair- Jamal

Minutes- Kate

Apologies

Ms lucking- Art Exam

Ms Wilberforce- Duty

Alistair- ?

Barnaby- Art exam

Dominic- in detention. Turned out he was actually here.

Henry- ill

Matters arising from actions from last meeting

Womens Group

Jamal will help Dominic to set up Women’s Group Meeting as he didn’t get chance to speak to everyone this week. Obai assures us Ms Lucking is ready to sort it out for first week after half term.

Subversive Communication

Jamal invited to attend meeting in first week after Easter.

This week’s agenda

Pride- Jack

Jack requested friends of his attend pride. Friesia expressed concern this may be in breach of guidelines. Rob offered idea that the guests could line the parade and join us later. This sounds like a nice compromise to most of group. We could officially make those people part of our equalities LNS community. Friesia offered to speak with Chris and Pride London to confirm stance.

Behaviour Policy

Questions about ambiguity of statements.

Questions about sanctions matching up with offence.

Do homophobic statements end up with leadership involvement? Some group members felt this was more appropriate some expressed concerns this would simply silence the conversation. It was agreed we should work towards consistently applied sanctions for acts or verbalisations of prejudice and not increasing the sanctions for them.

Obai questioned some sanctions and how they could be applied unfairly.

Rob explained that referral is made by leadership only Rob added that added that there are no automatic sanctions for behaviours it simply sets up a conversation.

Kate expressed concerns that changing the whole behaviour policy right now may fall outside of our Equalities remit and that it would be beneficial to focus on the aspect we’ve talked about most which is preventing LGBTQ, Gender Identity, Disability or Ethnic Background from becoming a barrier to learning.

Continual raising of different acts of prejudice holding different levels of severity by teachers, staff, students and union groups has not yielded consistent results so far. Disability bullying should be on SIMS. Action – Kate will check the behaviour policy, SIMS and log and report to JLT via Obai.

Noted that the records are getting better.

Assembly on consequences for prejudice proposed. Some agreed but majority stated they wish to send out positive messages to prevent shutdown of conversation.

Ms Schuil said that we must still work on taking repeat offenses seriously. Propose actions next week.
Acts of prejudice should not be on the strike system. Obai will take to JLT.

Minutes 17 March 2016

March 17, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Apologies:

  • Ms Lucking, Ms Wilberforce, Ms Murphy, Jemal,

Feedback from sticker group: We met and looked through the Pinterest page Ms Lucking set up and have decided to focus on the phrase “Getting Girls”. Do come to our meeting on the first Wednesday of next term – Period 4 in Ms Lucking’s room.

Pride Parade: Ms Schuil: June 25th Saturday.

ACTION POINTS:

  1. Rotating Chair – Rostered – to be published by Chris
  2. Lambeth LGBTQ Lesson to go ahead as a pilot with feedback to come from Henry and others from the group before being rolled out for Year 9 overall. All students are welcome. Thursday 14 April, 1:50pm
  3. School Uniform – Ms Lucking will speak to some of the 6th form girls and invite them to this group –
  4. Formation of group for Womens’ issues – Ms Lucking, Conwright, Obai, Dewi, Dominic – Dominic to arrange
  5. Equalities Policy – Chris will re-submit this to the PPP committee for ratification
  6. Sticker Campaign Next Date: Wednesday 7 April, Period 4, Ms Lucking’s room – Dewi, Henry, Dominic, Chris, Ms Critchley, Ms Lucking, Conwright,
  7. Assemblies – Ms Wilberforce. Miss Critchley. Ms Lucking, Dominic and Michael.
  8. Pride – Saturday 25 June.

Minutes: Thursday 10 March – Governors’ Visit

March 10, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Action Points from Last Week:

  1. Rotating Chair – Rostered – to be published by Chris
  2. Lambeth LGBTQ Lesson to go ahead as a pilot with feedback to come from Henry and others from the group before being rolled out for Year 9 overall.
  3. School Uniform – Ms Lucking will speak to some of the 6th form girls and invite them to this group.
  4. Formation of group for Womens’ issues – Ms Lucking, Conwright, Obai, Dewi, Dominic
  5. Equalities Policy – Chris will re-submit this to the PPP committee for ratification
  6. Sticker Campaign Date: Wednesday 16 March, Period 4, Ms Lucking’s room – Dewi, Henry, Dominic, Chris.
  7. Assemblies – Ms Wilberforce. Miss Critchley. Ms Lucking, Dominic and Michael

Equalities Objectives:

Chris Hall, Governor, explained the concerns the Governors had about the equalities objective – the idea of committing ourselves to everyone achieving the same outcomes was potentially unrealistic. Henry also reiterated Mr Taylor’s concern about how to identify and track the various groups.

  1. All school documents and curricular resources reflect the diversity of the wider school community.
    • We can be much more inclusive with resources and how we position them towards gender, religion, sexuality and ethnicity in language and representation. For example: We should not present Mr and Mrs as our default in letters, not simply choosing a male scientist when making a PowerPoint slide/handout.
  2. Regular audits of school behaviour incidents reflect a reduction in bullying and harassment of identified groups within the school and track trends in broader behaviour to ensure specific groups are not over-represented.
  3. Equality training is run annually for all staff and regular events are run on the school calendar that promote positive messages about all members of the diverse school community.

To be amended:

Progress for students who come from minority groups within the school (Multi-ethnic, LGBT, diverse religions, different genders) is monitored

Alternatives:

  1. Interview students who are under-achieving – there was some concern that students wouldn’t disclose information, or would feel shame about
  2. Speaking to parents – the concern here was that some students might not wish to disclose issues they’re having that may affect their learning
  3. The re-stating of the objective in terms of a broader intention would allow the leadership to build more specific goals to achieve them.

Proposed Wording:

Option 1: “The school will make progress towards ensuring that progress for students who come from minority groups within the school is not affected by their minority status” 

Option 2: “The school will ensure that students’ minority status doesn’t become a barrier to their academic progress” – carried unanimously.

 

 

 

Minutes for Meeting on Thursday 3rd March

March 1, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Apologies: Michael, Jack, Ms Schuil, Mr Leonard, Ms Critchley

ACTION POINTS

  1. Rotating Chair – Rostered, everyone has a chance.
  2. Distribution of Lambeth LGBTQ Lesson Plans for group review – It looks standard, a mot depends on the delivery. Conwright, Dewi, Chris interested in assisting, Henry might be abel to observe. Would be great to try to do this with every class.
  3. School Uniform – A long discussion happened about the girls in the school – Ms Lucking will speak to some of the 6th form girls and invite them to this group.
  4. Formation of group for Womens’ issues – Ms Lucking, Conwright, Obai, Dewi, Dominic
  5. Equalities Policy – Everyone on board for next week
  6. Sticker Campaign – Dewi, Henry, Dominic, Chris.
  • Senior Leadership Solidarity – Obai
  • Assemblies – Ms Wilberforce. Miss Critchley. Ms Lucking, Dominic and Michael
  • Lambeth Services – Kate