Policy
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 28, states that “every child has the right to an education.”
What is Pupil Equity?
Equity is an extension of equality. Equality focuses on ensuring students are presented with the same educational opportunities.
Equity in education aims to provide equal opportunity to all students no matter what a student’s background, language, race, economic profile, gender, learning capability, disability or family history.
Equity builds on fairness and inclusion, with safeguards such as interventions and resources utilised to ensure every individual has the opportunity to get the support and resources, they need to achieve their educational goals and reach their full potential.
Ensuring pupil equity is at the heart of all educational policies. The Scottish Government have allocated funding to schools to assist in ensuring equity.
Pupil Equity Funding
Pupil Equity Funding is additional funding from the Scottish Government allocated directly to schools and targeted at closing the poverty related attainment gap. This funding is aimed at providing targeted support for children and young people affected by poverty to help them achieve their full potential. A strong focus of this funding is to assist in securing improvements in literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing. Funding is allocated to individual schools based on those pupils who are registered for Free School Meals in the Broad General Education (BGE).
To date, Pupil Equity Funding has supported the following:
- Funding additional access to counselling services
- Purchase of additional IT to support individual pupils and classroom learning
- Supporting the development of study skill materials and workshops
- Supporting pupils to attend extra-curricular clubs, events & excursions
- Breakfast club
Cost of the School Day
At Carluke High School we are fully aware of the difficulties facing our families, and are proactive in providing supports to help with the Cost of the School Day.
Carluke Cares & Shares
Families in Scotland are under increasing financial pressure, due to the “cost of living crisis” and Covid-19 post pandemic. 24% of children in Scotland are living in poverty and many families are struggling to meet the costs associated with sending their children to school.
Addressing the Cost of the School Day can remove barriers to participation and allow equal access to education for all young people in schools across Scotland. Cost of the school day addresses funding advice for: uniform, transport, learning equipment at home, food in and out of school and events and school trips.
Support in School
Within the school we have a provision of materials that are available for pupils to access. These include:
- Uniform-provide trousers, skirts, tights, shirts, jumpers, tie, blazers, PE kit. UNIFORMERLY website can be used to order Uniform from The Uniform Closet.
- Learning materials/ S1 Equity Pack – make available pens, pencils, folders, scientific calculators, pencil cases, rulers, notepads
- Breakfast Club-Magic Breakfast- provides breakfast from 8am until 8.35am in a number of areas; the PE Open Area, Library, Nurture room, The Hub and trough our Pathfinders partners
- Hygiene products – provide soap, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo/conditioner, sanitary products
- Period Products- We make different types of period products available so they can be freely accessible from a number of locations in the school, without people having to ask for them.
- Prom Boutique- Pre-loved prom dresses and suits made accessible to everyone
- Food aid - we can refer families to Foodbanks if food support is needed.
Pupils can speak to their Pupil Support Teacher at any time or the Equity Team. Alternatively, parents/carers can contact their child's Pupil Teacher/ Equity Team to request supports or from this email address:
