Chair: Michael Adjei-mensah

International Day – SW has had little luck finding out about the school Health & Safety policy regarding food. She will now pursue this with ML

This Week

  • baking lessons – Konditor & Cook have offered us free baking lessons because of our involvement in pride. There are 6 places available. This will take place next Wednesday (Alistair, Jack, Dewi, Ed Crowley, Michael, Barnaby)
  • Categories of discrimination have been added to SIMS once more. Sexism needs to be added to the SIMs incident categories.
  • advice on a racist incident – a student in the school was encountered by another student who was handling black bin liners. The student said to another student – ‘how did you manage to peel off your skin?’ This has been logged on SIMS, but no further action has been taken. How do we believe we should proceed?

The students were friends, and this was originally used as part of justification for ‘resolving the case’. CW and TD disagreed with this judgement and this was put to the group.

The incident was logged on SIMS, forwarded to the HOY, a week passed and then the teacher and student chased the incident, it has still not been addressed.

The incident has been logged as a C3, this was previously decided that this would the code for incidents that would be classed as illegal outside of school.

We must revive the school’s protocols for dealing with these matters as this will potentially set a precedent.

It was suggested that the boy be held accountable to the student’s parents and suggest an apology.  Both sets of parents should be present at this meeting. This is a good opportunity to focus on the empathy of the situation.

It was also proposed that there should also be an equivalent sanction in school, for instance – had this been bullying or a fight, there would be time for the student in the LSC.

It was also agreed that ‘they’re friends’ or ‘banter’ was not an acceptable excuse.

  • date to be arranged for planning of Equalities inset – Monday after school.

Group needs to be ready to show something for the first week back after half term.