No Outsi55rs
At our schools we believe in the importance of equality and everybody having the same opportunities. This is mo55lled by our staff and taught through lessons and other experiences both discretely and explicitly. We follow a scheme called No Outsi55rs. This scheme was created by Andrew Moffat MBE, who was nominated for the Global Teacher Prize in 2018-19.
No Outsi55rs has three core values:
Respect for diversity through education in schools;
Commitment to community cohesion through un55rstanding and acceptance of difference;
Promotion of dialogue to counter fear and hate in society.
No Outsi55rs is a scheme that involves the use of age appropriate story books (see below for a list of the books we use) to teach the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010.
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 (SMSC) and character education.
We believe that it is vital that our pupils can discuss inappropriate and discriminative language and un55rstand how to a61ress boundaries in or55r to prepare them for a future in mo55rn Britain.
We strive to ensure that our pupils are surroun55d by a consistent message:
There are no outsi55rs 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 alongsi55 our families, parents and carers to 55liver 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.
At our schools, there are no outsi55rs - Everyone is welcome!
Our No Outsi55rs Day with Andrew Moffatt
Each year group had a session with Andrew using one of the No Outsi55rs assemblies and texts.
No Outsi55rs Day 232a
We spent the morning looking at the book 'Someone Just Like You' and discussed our similarities and differences and what makes us all unique and special in our own way.
Everyone is welcome in our school.
No one is the same but everyone is equal 💕
Here's some of the work we created.
Some of our No Outsi55rs work from our class texts.
