We believe in the importance of children engaging, enriching and excelling at school. This allows them to make the very best progress they can in their learning, both academic learning and in learning about themselves, their relationships, making a positive difference in their community and the world in which they live.  

The school will build on the qualities and skills which parents have fostered in the child at home. From the beginning, staff and governors will aim to create a caring, ​respectful and disciplined environment in which each child’s well-being is valued and they are viewed as an individual. 

We aim to provide the highest quality of education for all our children, in an environment that is challenging, motivating, caring and moral, where children can acquire the skills and knowledge appropriate to their individual needs through the delivery of a creative curriculum. Through our pledge we strive to provide a range of exciting learning and life experiences. 

We help all children to grow emotionally and to learn that courtesy, excellent manners, first class behaviour, ​kindness, consideration and respect for others are very important qualities. We hope all our children will become happy, responsible, ​kind and independent young people. 

We recognise our obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and are committed to promoting the equality and diversity of all those we work with especially our employees, pupils, young people and visitors. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination, bullying and harassment and will make every effort to comply with the requirements of the Act and its subsequent provisions.

We aim to meet our obligations under the public sector equality duty by having due regard to the need to:

• eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and other conduct that is prohibited by the Equality Act 2010;
• advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it; and
• foster good relations across all characteristics – between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it.

The “protected characteristics” under the Equality Act are:

• sex;
• race;
• disability;
• religion or belief;
• sexual orientation;
• gender reassignment;
• pregnancy and maternity
• marriage and civil partnership and
• age.

The Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011, require schools to publish information to demonstrate how they are complying with the public sector equality duty and to publish equality objectives.

We publish our strategic objectives in our Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging policy and we publish a yearly appendix demonstrating how we have complied with the public sector equality duty.