Equality Mark

As part of our work on developing Equality at St James’, we have been working towards achieving the Lancashire Equality Mark. The Lancashire Equality Mark is awarded to schools who have taken measures to embed Equality throughout their practice with the goal of enabling all pupils to thrive in a supportive learning community. It has been developed by a working group in Lancashire and provides a clear framework to guide schools through the process of auditing, developing and consolidating good practice in different areas of Equality. The Equality Mark is comprised of six individual Equality Badges.

When a school achieves all six badges they will be awarded the Equality Mark. Schools identify priorities each year that will make a difference in the area of equality in their school community and will support their wider development plans. This year we have achieved the Religion and Belief Equality Badge and the Race Equality Badge. We are now working towards the Socio-economic and Disability badges.

This is an exciting opportunity for us to develop practice in our school. The children are really enjoying the activities , discussions and new resources we have already invested in this year.