What is No Outsiders?

Our Vision: Inclusive education, promoting community cohesion to prepare young people and adults for life as global citizens.

At Holy Family Catholic 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 PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education), As part of our PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education), we follow a scheme called No Outsiders. 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. 

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 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 U.K.; our British values support this and the law says this too.

At Holy Family Catholic Primary School, there are no outsiders - Everyone is welcome.