No Outsiders - Everyone is welcome in our school

At Farington Primary School, we believe in the importance of equality and everybody having the same opportunities. This is modelled by our staff and taught through lessons and other experiences both discretely and explicitly. One of the subjects that this is taught through is the subject of PSHCE.

As part of our current PSHCE curriculum, ‘One Decision’, we enhance this by including the No Outsiders scheme. This scheme was created by Andrew Moffat MBE, who was nominated for the Global Teacher Prize in 2018-19. No Outsiders has three main core values:

• Respect for diversity through education in schools.

• Commitment to community cohesion through understanding and acceptance of difference.

• Promotion of dialogue to counter fear and hate in society.

No Outsiders is a scheme that was introduced to our Governor Body and our Parents/Carers at our school in 2023 - 2024 and it involves the use of age-appropriate story books (see below for a list of the books we use) to teach about the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010. These include:

• age.

• disability.

• gender reassignment.

• race.

• religion or belief.

• gender.

• sexual orientation.

It is important that our school culture is one in which children, staff and the whole school community work together to foster an environment of inclusivity through effective spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) and character education.

At Farington Primary School we believe that it is vital that our children are aware and able to discuss inappropriate and discriminative language and understand how to address these in order to prepare them for their future lives in modern Britain.

We strive to ensure that our children are surrounded by a consistent message:

• There are no outsiders here.

This message also includes our children gaining a deeper understanding of:

• Everyone is different.

• To celebrate difference.

• We are all equal in our difference.

• Children can get along with each other regardless of differences.

• We live in the U.K., and this supports our British Values.

 

We will work alongside our families, parents and carers to deliver this message of inclusivity. You are very welcome to call in to see your child’s class teacher to discuss this approach and to view the picture books we use for this.

At Farington Primary School, there are no outsiders – Everyone is welcome!