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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

Our Community
At The Burgate School and Sixth Form we want everyone to feel valued for who they are
and we are committed to ensuring all within our community can thrive.
Our promise is to champion diversity and provide an inclusive culture to empower our students and staff. We support equality and opportunity for all within our school community, and we promote an anti-discriminatory environment where everyone feels safe, respected, and has a sense of belonging. Our goal is to help to create a more equitable world.
We recognise that discrimination can be direct or indirect and can take place at an institutional level, in personal spaces and online. We take pride in delivering initiatives that address these challenges that in turn help to empower members of our community to not only combat this, but to allow us to challenge language, behaviour, or digital communication associated with any form of discrimination.
Our Values



Our Burgate Shared Values
Ambition, Curiosity & Kindness.
We actively foster principles that ensure understanding, acceptance and respect encapsulate all aspects of Burgate Life.
We constantly strive to develop our knowledge and understanding of academic and professional thought, individual experiences, and best practice in matters pertaining to EDI. We routinely seek feedback from all stakeholders. This helps us to not only reflect on our practices but to recognise the changing needs within our community and to support continual improvement.
Equality Objectives 2022 -2026
We develop specific objectives every four years based on our Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) to eliminate discrimination and other conduct prohibited by the Equality Act 2010, advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it and to foster good relations across all characteristics between people who do share a protected characteristic and people who do not within our school community.
Objectives consider both national, county and school level priorities including the views consulted upon with stakeholders to establish equality objectives based on information collected on protected groups and accessibility planning.
Each year we update the progress made against objectives set within the current cycle.
Please scroll to see all our objectives.

