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.