At St Paul's RC Primary School, we believe in the importance of equality and everybody having the same opportunities. This is modelled by our staff and taught through lessons and other experiences both discretely and explicitly. One of the subjects that this is taught through is the subject of Personal Development (PD). 

As part of our PD/ teaching of Protected Characteristics, we follow a scheme called No Outsiders. This scheme was created by Andrew Moffatt MBE, who was nominated for the Global Teacher Prize in 2018-19. No Outsiders has 3 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 is a scheme that was introduced to Governors, staff and children at our school in January 2025 by Andrew Moffatt himself. He delivered sample lessons in every class and training for the staff. We were left feeling utterly inspired! It involves the use of age appropriate story books to teach about seven of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010. These include:

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

It is important that 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, cultural (SMSC) and character education. 

We believe that it is vital that our pupils can discuss inappropriate and discriminative language and understand how to address boundaries in order to prepare them for a future in modern Britain. 

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 UK, 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.

At St. Paul's Primary School, there are no outsiders - Everyone is welcome!