Diversity, tolerance, and equality

Initiatives

Reason

KS3 Citizenship curriculum – one term in each year group devoted to PSHE and RSE.

All students in KS3 are exposed to our PSHE/RSE curriculum which has been deliberately planned with our local context in mind.

Assembly calendar, related to world events, and explicitly linked to our Culture of Excellence.

All pupils are regularly exposed to important topics and world events, with a specific intention of promoting diversity, tolerance, and equality alongside our Culture of Excellence values.

Weekly tutor time PSHE programme.

Ensures that all students receive a regular diet of age appropriate PSHE lessons delivered by teachers across the academy.

The promotion of events across the academy, such as Cultural Day and World Religion Day.

Promotion of diversity, tolerance, and equality and the engagement of the entire staff and student bodies in promoting diversity, tolerance, equality, and safety.

All subjects are required to specifically reference within curriculum documents where they promote British Values, diversity, tolerance, and equality.

The permeation of SMSC, PSHE, RSE, and British Values across the academic offer with input from all departments.

Subject

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English

Year 9, The Crucible: Democracy, Communism and Capitalism

Year 7 – Experiences of Anne Frank explored in War and Conflict unit and roles of women in Elizabethan England explored through the study of Shakespeare. Colonialism, gender and social justice explored through the study of A Girl of Ink and Stars.

Year 8 – Ideas linked to racism, gender and identity explored through social justice poetry and non-fiction study. Ideas linked to gender and the role of women in society explored through study of Much Ado about Nothing and Pygmalion.

Year 9 – Ideas linked to racism, gender and identity explored through the study of speeches and non-fiction writing. Gender expectations in patriarchal society explored through texts such as The Crucible, Romeo and Juliet and poetry.

Year 10 – Attitudes to class, gender and power explored through A Christmas Carol and An Inspector Calls. Attitudes to femininity, masculinity and the role of women in Elizabethan England explored through the study of Macbeth.

Year 11 – Diverse perspectives explored through non-fiction texts. Diverse perspectives on conflict, power and identity explored through poetry study.

Maths

A lot of work done on last year. Each unit for all year groups has a link to diversity and inclusion which is shared on the common lesson slide and is in the SOW

Year 10: Forming and Solving Equations: al-Khwarizmi was a Persian polymath who presented the first systematic solution of linear equations circa 813-833 and was the first to use the balancing method we use for rearranging equations.

Year 7 Representing Data: The earliest known pie chart is generally credited to William Playfair’s Statistical Breviary of 1801, in which two such graphs are used. Playfair presented an illustration, which contained a series of pie charts. Florence Nightingale may not have invented the pie chart, but she adapted it to make it more readable, which fostered its wide use, still today.

Year 8 Index Laws: In India, c. 400, the Bakhshali manuscript is written by Jaina shows an understanding of indices, as well as logarithms to base 2.

Year 9 Plotting Graphs: Babylonian mathematicians from circa 400 BC and Chinese mathematicians from circa 200 BC used geometric methods to solve quadratic equations with positive roots.

Science

We evaluate and debate in many topics e.g. Year 7 Energy Resources - renewable V Non renewable. Year 9 Ecology - biodiversity is responsibility of citizens

We evaluate and debate in many topics e.g. Year 7 Energy Resources - renewable V Non renewable. Year 9 Ecology - biodiversity is responsibility of citizens

History

Year 7 – Worldviews c.1000 (Islamic Empire, Chinese Dynasties) whole topic

Year 7 – Medieval Mali whole topic

Year 7 – Challenges to medieval monarchs including female monarchs

Year 8 – Diversity in the Tudor era (one lesson)

Year 8 – The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Year 8 – The British Empire and how this affected aboriginal communities including during WWI.

Year 9 – The role of women in WW1

Year 9 – The Suffrage Movement

Year 9 – The Holocaust including life/culture of Jewish people before WW2

Year 9 – WW2 – The role of Alan Turing

Year 9 – Civil Rights in the UK and USA

Y11 – Elizabethan exploration of the New World

Various local history links throughout esp. Y8&9

Geography

Migration, Sustainability, Population changes

Throughout the curriculum, when we are introducing different examples and case studies we show both opportunities and challenges of different countries. For example, in Y7 we teach the DRC as a case study however we ensure we show a wide range of images to try display the full picture of the country and not just a single story.

Year 7

-Development around the world and reasons that can hinder development (this includes historical context introducing colonialism).

-Impact of aid on developing countries

-River flooding case studies from both HICs and LICs

Year 8

-Migration and its impacts on the source and host countries.

-Tectonic hazard case studies from both HICs and LICs.

Year 9

-Inequalities in newly emerging economies

KS4

-A range of case studies explored from a range of continents and across a range of development.

Spanish

Topics in KS3 including looking at diverse physical appearances and different types of families. In KS4, students will look at content around physical and mental wellbeing and equality. From Y7 through to Y11, students are reminded every lesson of the importance of learning about different cultures. In MFL, we are introducing dual coding in many of our lessons. When we use images of people, we ensure there is diversity within the images chosen so that all students feel represented in our subject. 

Music

KS3 - African songs, Brazilian samba, black female artists Willie Mae Thornton (big Mamma Thornton)

Repertoire includes tracks by female composers and artists

KS4 – listening includes music form different cultures

KS3 - African songs, Brazilian samba, black female artists Willie Mae Thornton (big Mamma Thornton)

Repertoire includes tracks by female composers and artists

KS4 – listening includes music form different cultures

Art

KS3 – Portraits -Han Coa's daughter of Vietnamese refugees who creates art using stitch and memories. Students create portraits linked to their own identity and culture

Landscapes – Japanese artist Hokusai and his impact on wider culture in Japan today.

Shibori Kites – Students learn about traditional Japanese dying technique and the Kouture art of making shibori kimonos.

Ks4 – Fragments component one students can choose from a diverse range of artists to support their learning including: Samuel Mensah-Bonsu (b.1990), Kalki Subramaniam. Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Drama

African Theatre studied in Summer of Y7

Russian and German Theatre practitioners studied in Y9

A selection of plays by male, female, black and global majority playwrights used as texts for the GCSE component 2 exam in Y11.

Stimulus for Component 1 in Y10 of GCSE always linked to culture and difference

ICT

Year 7- E-Safety, iMedia (target audience/purpose of media products

Year 8-iMedia(theory- analysing media products, gender stereotypes etc.

Year 9- cyber security, ethical use of computers, data breaches, social engineering etc.Imedia- genre, stereotypes.

Citizenship

Term 1 Democracy and the government Term 2- Human Rights Y8-Term 1 Crime and punishment Y9- British Values

Term 1 Democracy and the government Term 2- Human Rights Y8-Term 1 Crime and punishment Y9- British Values

RS

Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Atheism, Philosophy, World Views

Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Atheism, Philosophy, World Views

PE

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All students have the same diet in the PE curriculum now. All groups regardless of ability or gender take part in the same activities. We look to provide equal Oppurtunites through inclusion of these activities. For example, boys and girls will do dance, boys and girls will take part in rugby. To further this example, the new dance curriculum will use different styles of dance/genres of music from different parts of the word.  Throughout other activities like gymnastics there will be links to professional athletes to show WAGOLLS such as Simonee Biles.