Action planning for impact: a Brighton

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Action planning for impact a Brighton Hove and
East Sussex perspective

• Sam Beal, Healthy Schools Team
• Brighton Hove CYPT
• Atiya Gourlay, Equality and Engagement Manager
  Children's Service, East Sussex County Council

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Aims of workshop

• To explore personal reflections and experiences
  to consider what difference we want to make in
  our schools
• To begin to identify actions and how developments
  can be measured

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Working agreement

• Respect the confidentiality of members of the
  group
• Only share what you feel comfortable to share
• Value the diversity of the group
• Respect the right of others to express different
  views or beliefs to your own and challenge
  appropriately
• Clarify assumptions to reduce the potential for
  misunderstandings
• Try to be specific and own your own perspective
  (e.g. using I statements)
• Remember that its OK to make mistakes and to
  change your stance

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Paired discussion

• What was your experience of learning about
  difference and diversity as you were growing up?
• Start with school you were at and the learning
  that may or may not have gone on, people around
  you, family, holidays, role models, books your
  read, college etc

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Feedback

• What explicit / implicit messages about diversity
  and difference were we given?

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Where next?

• The vision
• How or what would you have liked to learn /
  experience in your school about difference and
  diversity?
• What messages would you have liked to have heard?
  
• Ofsted
• What progress has been made towards outstanding
  provision?

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What is outstanding?

• Ofsted
• What progress has been made towards outstanding
  provision and practice in race equality? (safety,
  curriculum, involving parents, staff well-being,
  tackling discrimination)

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Action planning for impact

• Needs analysis / assessment
• Racist and religiously motivated incident
  monitoring
• Monitoring of achievement / attainment
• Safe at School Survey data
• Learning walks
• Parent / pupil / student consultation and
  involvement
• Knowledge of local community
• Other ideas

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Action planning for impact

• Example activities / actions
• Staff training
• Policy review / development
• Curriculum review / development
• Review of resources
• Environment
• Equalities Calendar events
• Parents / carers events
• Linking schools
• Other

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Action planning for impact

• Have a go
• 1 short term action
• 1 medium term action
• 1 long term action

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How will you know you have made a difference?

• Quantative outcomes
• Racist and religiously motivated incidents
  (higher or lower?)
• Achievement of black and minority ethnic pupils /
  students
• Attendance / participation of black and minority
  ethnic pupils / students
• Safe at School Survey data
• Attitude change measured / accessed in PSHE
  citizenship
• Other...

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How will you know you have made a difference?

• Perception outcomes
• Ofsted judgements
• Learning walks
• Parent / pupil / student satisfaction surveys
• Other

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Example Brighton Hove Resources

• Race Equality Guidance
• Exemplar Single Equalities Policy
• Primary PSHCE SEAL learning outcomes planning
  tools
• Gypsy, Roma Traveller Awareness Lesson Plans
• Equalities Partnership project materials St
  Lukes Benfield Primary Schools Pier2Peer
• See it! Say it! Stop it! Staff Training /
  secondary students DVD to support the reporting
  of racist and religiously motivated incidents
  (available September 2010)

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Example Brighton Hove Support for Schools

• Healthy Schools Team
• School Advisory Service
• Ethnic Minority Achievement Service
• Traveller Education Service
• Brighton Peace Environment Centre
• Partnership Community Safety Team
• Community Voluntary Sector
• Other

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Example East SussexResources and Guidance

• Race Equality Guidance being updated
• DVD resources Gypsies and Travellers Sticks
  and Stones/Speaking for myself
• Cultural Diversity Guide for Schools a
  curriculum resource
• Equality Exemplar for Schools
• Equality Framework

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Example support for schoolsEast Sussex

• Children Services Department
• Anti-bullying caseworker (Race Equality)
  Emmeline Cole
• Equality Engagement Team
• School Improvement Inclusion advisors
• Traveller and English as an Additional Language
  Service
• Wider Children and Young People Trust
• Partnership Community Safety Team
• Community Voluntary Sector

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Contact Details
Healthy Schools Team Hove Park Mansions Hove Park
Villas Hove BN3 6HW Email Healthy.Schools_at_brigh
ton-hove.gov.uk Tel [phone] Fax 01273
295392 Web http//www.pier2peer.org.uk gt Learning
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East Sussex Contact Details
Equality Engagement Team Tel 01273
482302 Email atiya.gourlay_at_eastsussex.gov.uk Sta
ndards Learning Effectiveness Pupil Well-being
and Vulnerable Groups Tel 01323
466838 nick.hynes_at_eastsussex.gov.uk