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What is No Outsiders?
It is inclusive education, promoting community cohesion to prepare young people and adults for life as global citizens.We, as a school, believe in everybody having the same opportunities, enjoying equality to learn and grow as a rounded person. Our staff model this through their lessons and other experiences in and out of their classrooms. One of the subjects that this is taught through is the subject of Personal, Social, Health and Economical Education (PSHE).
At Allanson Street Primary School, as part of our PSHE curriculum, we follow a scheme called No Outsiders. This scheme was created by Andrew Moffat MBE, who was nominated for the Global Teacher Prize in 2018-19.
No Outsiders has three 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 Governors and parents at our school in 2021 and it involves the use of age appropriate story books (see below for a list of the books we use) to teach about seven of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010.
- age;
- disability;
- gender reassignment;
- race;
- religion or belief;
- gender;
- sexual orientation.
It is important we create a school culture 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.
We believe that it is vital that our pupils can discuss inappropriate and discriminative language and understand how to address boundaries in order to prepare them for a future in modern Britain.
We strive to ensure that our pupils are surrounded by a consistent message:
- There are no outsiders here;
- Everyone is different;
- We like being different;
- We are all equal in our difference;
- I can get along with you even if we are different;
- We live in the U.K., our British values support this and the law says this too.
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.
You can find more information here: https://no-outsiders.com/ …
… and read about us in detail in our No Outsiders parent booklet