As a Catholic school, we promote the Gospel values of love and forgiveness. We welcome and value everyone in our school and celebrate and value differences and uniqueness. We aim to ensure that our pupils are happy and excited about living and learning in a community full of difference and diversity. 

To ensure that our children are taught to live out these values, the school has adopted the ‘No Outsiders: Everyone Different, Everyone Welcome’ text based approach, through which our children learn about equality and diversity. From Reception to Year 6, every year group has 6 texts with 6 lesson plans and this scheme compliments our Personal, Social, Health and Emotional (PSHE) curriculum. 

 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 involves the use of age appropriate story books to teach about the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010.

The No Outsiders resource includes lesson plans based on 35 children’s picture books, many of which you may already have read with your children. The class discussion is child-led and offers opportunity for the children to make observations and consider the simple messages in the text, all of which link to the Equality Act in an age appropriate way. We will begin the programme in the new academic year.

For your information, we have attached a list of the picture books that we shall be using. If you have any questions about the No Outsiders programme, then please do get in touch with the school office and ask to speak to Miss Lugg.