Argyle is an inclusive school where we focus on the well-being and progress of every child and where all members of our community are of equal worth.  We believe that the Equality Act provides a framework to support our commitment to valuing diversity, tackling discrimination, promoting equality and fostering good relationships between people. It also ensures that we continue to tackle issues of disadvantage and underachievement of different groups. We comply with the public sector equality duty (Please see equalities policy below).

Our Equalities objectives are:

1) To ensure that our work with ‘Lifting Limits’, the ‘Black Curriculum’ and Camden anti-racist learning hub supports us in ensuring that our curriculum is fully inclusive, representative of all communities in our school and supported by high quality resources that are also representative.

2) to reduce in school attainment gaps between disadvantaged pupils and all other pupils – particularly at the higher level of attainment (greater depth).

3) 

• To continue to increase the participation of disadvantaged pupils in wider school opportunities – extra-curricular activities and peripatetic .
• Ensure that all disadvantaged pupils have a a device that enables them to access support for home learning and live lessons during any further period of school closure,
• Ensure that catch up funding is used to accelerate progress for pupils who have fallen most behind during periods of school closure.
• Continue to track participation and uptake of activities for disadvantaged pupils.
• Continue to subsidise financial contributions when they present a barrier to participation.
• Attainment data to be shared with TLCP committee each term. Headteacher to report to TLCP and FGB  committees on use and impact of devices each term. HT to report to TLCP and FGB on each term. Objectives Reviewed Autumn 2020/ Next review: Autumn 2024 music lessons; educational visits etc.

4) To improve the attendance of: Bangladeshi pupils; Disadvantaged pupils; Pupils with SEND; so that the attendance of these groups is in line with other groups. 

5) Ensure that our diverse curriculum and our approach to ‘Black History’ is fully communicated to parents and stakeholders. Continue to share work that illustrates the diversity of our curriculum.

6) Accessibility -Classrooms are optimally organised to promote the participation and independence of all pupils. On-going training where necessary for awareness raising of disability issues. When school is once again able to welcome parents and carers into building, continue to consider accessibility and use  ground floor wherever possible.

Full details of our Equalities Policy and Action Plan can be found under our school poilicies section.

Equalities Monitoring

At Argyle we regularly analyse the progress and attainment of different groups of children and adapt our provision in light of our findings.

The following data is based on analysis of our Year 6 data 2019. The comparative data for some groups was not available.                                

	READING - KS2 SATS 2019
	Achieved Expected Standard School %	Achieved Expected Standard National  %	Achieved Greater Depth School %	Achieved Greater Depth National      %
All pupils	74	73	21	27
Boys	62	69	14	22
Girls	86	78	27	32
White British	100	73
Disadvantaged	77	60	19	14
Bangladeshi	70
Black African	82
Congolese	0
Somali	100
Black Caribbean	100
EAL	74	73	23	27
SEND – support	53	73	0	27
SEND -  EHCP plan	0	73	0	27

 

	WRITING -  END OF KS2 TEACHER ASSESSMENT 2019
	Achieved Expected Standard School    %	Achieved Expected Standard National     %	Achieved Greater Depth School      %	Achieved Greater Depth National    %
All pupils	79	78	26	20
Boys	67	72	24	15
Girls	91	85	27	25
White British	100
Disadvantaged	84	66	23	10
Bangladeshi	75
Black African	82
Congolese	0
Somali	100
Black Caribbean	100
EAL	79	78	26	20
SEND – support	60	78	0	20
SEND -  EHCP plan	0	78	0	20

 

	MATHS - KS2 SATS 2019
	Achieved Expected Standard School %	Achieved Expected Standard National %	Achieved Greater Depth School %	Achieved Greater Depth National %
All pupils	77	79	16	27
Boys	71	78	29	29
Girls	82	79	5	24
White British	100
Disadvantaged	74	63	10	13
Bangladeshi	75
Black African	82
Congolese	0
Somali	100
Black Caribbean	100
EAL	77	75	15	26
SEND –  support	47	79	7	27
SEND -  EHCP plan	100	79	0	27

The Attainment of Groups of pupils at KS2 2019 Attaining Reading, Writing and Maths Combined. Comparative data for some groups was unavailable.

Group	Achieving Expected Standard School %	Achieving Expected Standard National %	Gap	Achieving Higher Standard School %	Achieving Higher Standard National %	Gap
All pupils	70	65	+5	5	11	-6
Boys	62	60	+2	5	9	-4
Girls	77	70	+7	5	13	-8
White British	100
Disadvantaged	71			9
Bangladeshi	60
Black African	82
Congolese	0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Somali	100
Black Caribbean	100	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
EAL	69	65	+4	5	11	-6
SEND – support	47	65	-18	0	11	-11
SEND - EHCP	0	65	-65	0	11	-11