Yeoman Park Academy is proud to have a diverse school community, valuing the individuality of all in our academy community. Our mission is to equip our learners with the identity, skills, confidence and resilience they need to reach their full potential and be ready for the next steps in their education.
We want our learners to be happy to come to school, and to enjoy their learning. We are committed to giving all our learners every opportunity to succeed by offering a broad and balanced curriculum and having high expectations. We actively encourage our learners to seize every opportunity to challenge themselves and realise their true potential.
Educating our learners, and ourselves, on what we can do to promote equity, diversity and inclusion is a significant aspect of our work together.
Equity objectives
We recognise that equality of opportunity is a fundamental right, and we have set out the following objectives in order to achieve this.
These objectives should be considered in conjunction with our equalities statement (see our single equality policy here).
- To develop their own identity and to grow in confidence.
- To nurture an ethos which respects and values all people.
- To ensure that the curriculum makes explicit and implicit provision to promote and celebrate diversity and actively challenges stereotypes and prejudiced attitudes, particularly focussing on learners’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
- To prepare our pupils for life in modern Britain.
- To have high expectations of behaviour which demonstrates respect to others.
- To eliminate all forms of unfair indirect and direct discrimination, bullying, harassment, victimisation and other oppressive behaviour.
- To take positive action to provide encouragement and support to individuals and groups whose progress has been limited by protected characteristics. (https://www.gov.uk/discrimination-your-rights)
- To make reasonable adjustments within the resources available to remove barriers which limit or discourage access to educational provision and activities.
- To promote good relationships amongst all people within the academy and the individual academies, Academy Trust and the wider community within which we work.
- To monitor and review the implementation of equality and diversity within the academy.
- To ensure that recruitment and selection procedures and practises within the Trust and the individual academies are open and transparent and ensure that fair and equal selection criteria is applied.
These equity objectives will be reviewed and republished every four years. The next review date is January 2027.