At Wallacewell EVERYONE IS WELCOME. Last year we refreshed our Equality Policy which highlights our commitment to celebrating and promoting diversity across our school community. We believe that all learners have a right to learn in an equitable environment where all cultures, religions, identities and languages are recognised and valued and where the curriculum responds positively to the diverse needs of individual learners, reflecting the uniqueness of their communities.
As you will be aware, last session we focused on developing understanding of racial equality through our health and wellbeing programme. Through self evaluation and quality assurance, including discussions with our children, we have decided to continue to focus on promoting and developing race equality and anti-racist education again this session.
Unfortunately we are aware of racist incidents that have occurred out with school within our local community. We, and schools across the country, also continue to manage a variety of racist incidents involving pupils in school. Whilst we have little control over what happens within our local communities and cannot control the actions of others, we will not tolerate racism of any kind within our school community. As such any racists incidents, such as name calling, will be managed as per our Anti-Bullying Policy.
To promote and develop racial equality families can support us by—
- encouraging positive and open conversations about race and racism at home
- having conversations about race and racism often, not just when it’s in the news or when an incident occurs
- supporting children to understand the lived experience of ethnically minority groups
Families can find lots of helpful guidance on the NSPCC website below. We would like to thank families in advance for their support.
Click on the link below to view our Anti-Bullying Policy.
Click in the link below to view our Equality Policy.
At the beginning of the session our Parent Council created a Facebook page to help families keep up to date with the life and work of the Parent Council.
We to remind families about the School Travel Assistance provided by Glasgow City Council (GCC). GCC provide transport for children and young people who live more than 1.2 miles from their local catchment primary school by the shortest suitable walking route and more than 2.2 miles from their local catchment secondary school by the shortest suitable walking route. This is slightly more generous than the statutory obligation.
