Equalities
Introduction
Turing House School seeks to foster a warm, welcoming and respectful culture which allows us all to question and challenge discrimination and inequality; resolve conflicts peacefully; promote equality; and work and learn in a safe environment. We actively celebrate diversity and encourage our students to develop as strong, confident individuals.
To find out more about our school approach to equality please read our Equality Policy.
Equality Information and objectives
Contextual information
Turing House School opened in September 2015. We admitted 100 students in Year 7 split into four tutor groups and a further 125 in September 2016. There are more boys than girls in each year group - this is similar to all other co-educational schools in the area and results from the intake of girls to Waldegrave School. We continued with our relatively low intake: 100 in 2017 and 125 in 2018.
Intake |
Boys |
BME |
EAL |
FSM |
PPG |
Disabled |
SEN |
EHCP |
2015 |
73% |
27% |
1% |
4% |
11% |
0 |
9% |
0 |
2016 |
69% |
31% |
8% |
17% |
26% |
0 |
14% |
2 |
2017 |
64% |
34% |
5% |
9% |
11% |
0 |
17% |
4 |
2018 |
67.2% |
28% |
4% |
8.8% |
12% |
0 |
28.8% |
3 |
2019 |
65.6 |
31% |
1.6% |
8.8% |
11.2% |
0 |
33.6% |
6 |
2020 |
69.13% |
32.67% |
6% |
15.33% |
16.67% |
0 |
30.67% |
1 |
In 2019 we have 5 year groups including our first year 11. We have 575 students in total, with our year 7s and 8s at our Hampton Site and our year 9s, 10s and 11s at our Teddington site.
Fostering good relations information
Fostering good relations is imperative to Turing House. We ask our students to take part in surveys to tell us how safe they feel at school and how well they feel we help them build positive relationships:
2019 survey results:
Year 9 Parents Evening Feedback
Agree or strongly agree |
Strongly Agree |
|
The school helps me to support my child’s learning |
100% |
67% |
My child is taught well at this school |
95% |
67% |
My child receives appropriate homework for their age |
95% |
67% |
I receive valuable information from the school about my child’s progress |
100% |
62% |
The school is helping my child become mature and responsible |
100% |
62% |
The school makes appropriate provision for my child's spiritual, moral and cultural development |
100% |
62% |
My child makes good progress at this school |
100% |
67% |
My child is well looked after at this school |
100% |
71% |
The school makes sure its students are well behaved |
100% |
57% |
The school deals effectively with bullying |
95% |
48% |
The school is helping my child to develop a healthy lifestyle |
100% |
48% |
The school is making sure that my child is well prepared for the future |
100% |
62% |
The school is led and managed effectively |
100% |
71% |
The school takes account of my suggestions and concerns |
100% |
57% |
The school meets my child’s particular needs |
100% |
52% |
The school works closely with parents |
100% |
57% |
The school provides a wide variety of activities/opportunities outside of lessons |
95% |
62% |
I would recommend Turing House to other parents |
100% |
90% |
You can read more about our approach to fostering good relations in the following policies; Attendance; Behaviour; Anti-Bullying; Curriculum; Extra-Curricular; Special Educational Needs; Relationships and Sex Education; Safeguarding.
The work we do to fulfil our aim to foster good relations includes:
Fostering good relations objective(s)
Eliminating discrimination information
We work in partnership with parents and carers, students and the whole school community to prevent all forms of bullying and prejudiced based behaviour and you can read more about our approach to bullying and eliminating discrimination in our Anti-Bullying Policy, Equality Policy and Sex and Relationship Education Policy.
All bullying and prejudiced based incidents are recorded. These records are used to inform the assembly programme and the PSHE education curriculum and to support and track individual students. Incidents are discussed during pastoral meetings and reported termly to Governors’ meetings. The school will conduct its own Annual Student Voice Survey and regular Parental Voice Surveys. This data is analysed and used to measure impact and inform next steps. This data is reported back to the whole school community on an annual basis.
We actively encourage parents and carers to report any bullying and prejudiced based incidents to us.
Eliminating discrimination objectives
Advance equality of opportunity information
Turing House School is completely committed to ensuring that all students make excellent academic progress. We review the progress of all students continually and collect formal progress data three times per year. This data is routinely analysed to ensure that all groups of students are performing equally well across the curriculum.
Advance equality of opportunity objective(s)
Admission of students with disabilities
Children are admitted to Turing House School according to our admission policy. Students with disabilities have their level of need assessed by the school in consultation with the child’s parents, the local authority and health agencies prior to entry to ensure the school’s physical environment and the appropriate resources (materials and personnel) can meet the child’s needs.
How we prevent students with disabilities from being treated less favourably than other students
By ensuring the environment and resources are appropriate after assessing their needs on admission and with regular reviews we will ensure that students with disabilities have the same opportunities as others at the school.
Improving the physical environment of the school for the purpose of increasing the extent to which disabled pupils are able to take advantage of education and benefits, facilities or services provided or offered by the school:
Actions taken at both sites:
Future plans:
Improving the delivery to disabled pupils of information which is readily accessible to pupils who are not disabled.
Accessibility Plan
The accessibility plan has been developed for the school’s site to ensure full access by all students, including any with disabilities, including wheel-chair users. There are no wheel chair users in the current intakes and no-one with mobility problems. All students are able to access all areas of the school. The school has medical, SEND, and disabilities registers.
Increasing the extent to which disabled pupils can participate in the school's curriculum:
Admission of students with disabilities
Children are admitted to Turing House School according to our admission policy. Students with disabilities have their level of need assessed by the school in consultation with the child’s parents, the local authority and health agencies prior to entry to ensure the school’s physical environment and the appropriate resources (materials and personnel) can meet the child’s needs.
How we prevent students with disabilities from being treated less favourably than other students
By ensuring the environment and resources are appropriate after assessing their needs on admission and with regular reviews we will ensure that students with disabilities have the same opportunities as others at the school.
Improving the physical environment of the school for the purpose of increasing the extent to which disabled pupils are able to take advantage of education and benefits, facilities or services provided or offered by the school:
Actions taken at both sites:
Future plans:
Improving the delivery to disabled pupils of information which is readily accessible to pupils who are not disabled.