What is No Outsiders?

It is inclusive education, promoting community cohesion to prepare young people and adults for life as global citizens. We, as a school, believe in everybody having the same opportunities, enjoying equality to learn and grow as a rounded person. Our staff model this through their lessons and other experiences in and out of their classrooms. One of the subjects that this is taught through is the subject of RSE. 

At Ynystawe Primary School,  we follow a scheme called No Outsiders as part of our RSE 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:

1. Respect for diversity through education in schools;
2. Commitment to community cohesion through understanding and acceptance of difference;
3. Promotion of dialogue to counter fear and hate in society. 

No Outsiders involves the use of age appropriate story books (see below for a list of the books we use) to teach about seven of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010.

• age;
• disability;
• gender reassignment;
• race;
• religion or belief;
• gender;
• sexual orientation. 

It is important we create a school culture in which children, staff and the whole school community work together to foster an environment of inclusivity through effective spiritual, moral, social and cultural  education. This is also reinforced with the school values which were chosen by all stakeholders. 

OUR SCHOOL VALUES

• Respect
• Resilience
• Creativity & Curiosity
• Aspirations
• Empathy & Equality
• Kindness
• Responsibility

We strive to ensure that our pupils are surrounded by a consistent message:

• There are no outsiders here;
• Everyone is different;
• We like being different;
• We are all equal in our difference;
• I can get along with you even if we are different;
• We live in the U.K., our British values support this and the law says this too.

We will work alongside our families, parents and carers to deliver this message of inclusivity. You are very welcome to call in to see your child’s class teacher to discuss this approach and to view the picture books we use for this. Ms Burridge will always post the lesson plans on Class Dojo for all to view. 

You can find more information here: https://no-outsiders.com/ …

… and read about us in detail in our No Outsiders parent booklet

There are no outsiders at our school because everybody is welcome!