Action planning for impact: a Brighton & Hove and East Sussex perspective

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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 it’s OK to make mistakes and to change your stance…

4. 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

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

6. 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?

7. 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…)

8. 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…

9. 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

10. Action planning for impact Have a go… • 1 short term action • 1 medium term action • 1 long term action

11. 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...

12. How will you know you have made a difference? Perception outcomes • Ofsted judgements • Learning walks • Parent / pupil / student satisfaction surveys • Other…

13. 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 Luke’s & 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)

14. 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…

15. 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

16. 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

17. Contact Details Healthy Schools Team Hove Park Mansions Hove Park Villas Hove BN3 6HW Email: Healthy.Schools@brighton-hove.gov.uk Tel: 01273 293530 Fax: 01273 295392 Web: http://www.pier2peer.org.uk > Learning

18. East Sussex Contact Details Equality & Engagement Team Tel: 01273 482302 Email: atiya.gourlay@eastsussex.gov.uk Standards & Learning Effectiveness: Pupil Well-being and Vulnerable Groups Tel: 01323 466838 nick.hynes@eastsussex.gov.uk