At Stoke Park we embrace Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in everything that we do. We are committed to everyone in our school community experiencing equality of opportunity, respect and feeling included. We celebrate diversity and promote a positive culture where everyone can thrive and feel proud of who they are.

We are committed to the development of cohesive communities both within our school and within our local, national and global environments. 

The Equality Act 2010 was introduced to ensure protection from discrimination, harassment and victimisation on the grounds of specific characteristics (referred to as protected characteristics). This means that schools cannot discriminate against pupils and staff or treat them less favourably because of their sex (gender), race, disability, religion or belief, gender reassignment, sexual orientation or pregnancy or maternity.

Our school aims to meet its obligations under the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) by having due regard to the need to:

• Eliminate discrimination, harassment, victimisation or other conduct that is prohibited by the Equality Act 2010.  
• Advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it.
• Foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it. 

Our Equalities objectives from November 2022 are: 

1. To reduce prejudice related behaviour and the use of discriminatory language.
2. To ensure the curriculum content includes positive representation and imagery of groups within the school.
3. To improve the participation and engagement of our families who speak English as an additional language (EAL).

Our Equality Information and Objectives Policy can be downloaded here.

Our most recent Ofsted inspection was in October 2023 and we are very proud of the 'good' rating that the school received in all areas of the inspection.  

The report states that 'Pupils enjoy attending Stoke Park Primary School. Staff encourage pupils to live out the school’s values of ‘be kind, be proud, strive for success’. Pupils are eager to demonstrate this through their daily interactions with peers and adults. Adults know the pupils and families well. As a result, relationships are respectful and positive.'

Inspectors also highlighted 'The school is aspirational for all pupils. It has designed an ambitious and broad curriculum that supports pupils to build knowledge well,' and that 'pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities successfully access the curriculum alongside their peers.'

Read the full report here:

The pupil premium grant is extra funding provided to schools in order to help close the gap between the outcomes of children who are eligible for Free School Meals (FSM) and their peers. You can find our strategy statement below, which explains how we use this funding.  

Year 2 (2023-24) of our three year strategy can be downloaded here

Our three year (2022-25) Pupil Premium Strategy can be downloaded here

What is the PE & Sport Premium Funding?

The primary PE and Sport Premium was introduced in 2013 to improve the provision of physical education and school sport in primary schools across England. The funding is provided jointly by the Departments for Education, Health, and Culture, Media and Sport (DfE, DH, DCMS). The funding is allocated directly to primary schools and is ring-fenced. This means it may only be spent on improving the provision of PE and sport in schools.

How should the Sport Premium be used?

The PE and sport premium must be spent by schools on ‘making additional and sustainable improvements to the provision of PE and sport’ for the benefit of all pupils to encourage the development of healthy, active lifestyles. This means that the funding should be used to develop or add to the PE and sport activities that schools already offer and/or make improvements now that will benefit pupils joining the school in future years.

How is the funding being used at Stoke Park?

Our PE and Sport Premium statement can be found here