[ref. x45876302] Class Teacher
Job type: Full Time, Permanent
Start date: January 2025 or April 2025
Apply by: 10 November 2024
Job overview
Addington School is a large all age outstanding special school located in Woodley catering for pupils with a wide range of learning disabilities. We pride ourselves in our commitment to induction, professional development and on-going support to all of our staff.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Class Teacher to join Upper School working with our pupils in years 12, 13 and 14 who can support positive outcomes for individual students and work with them to create achievable preparation for adulthood aspirations for their future.We are looking for …
- A Teacher with a passion for teaching children and young people with learning difficulties.
- A commitment to high professional standards.
- A skilled communicator and team player who is committed to developing themselves and others.
- A Teacher who shows empathy with parents and desire true working in partnership.
- The opportunity to work in a special school judged ‘Outstanding’.
- An environment committed to staff development and growing leadership.
- A school with a coaching and collaborative culture.
- The opportunity to personalise the curriculum.
- Membership of an inclusive learning community with SEND expertise.
- A school where creativity and innovation is encouraged.
To apply, please submit an application form before the closing date. Please note that we are unable to accept CVs.
Closing date: 10th November 2024This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening and safer recruitment checks appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and DBS.
This position is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
About Addington Special School
Addington Special SchoolWoodlands Avenue, Woodley, Reading
Berkshire
RG5 3EU
United Kingdom
+44 118 966 9073
Addington School is an Outstanding Special School for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. All our pupils’ primary need is a learning difficulty that is either moderate, severe or profound, with up to 50 percent also having Autism.
All our pupils have an Education and Health Care Plan and we are currently accommodating up to 308 pupils, aged between 3 and 19 years across 2 sites.Based in Woodley and Farley Hill and currently a Wokingham maintained school, we are very fortunate to have 2 purpose built environments which make our schools fantastic places for learning and wider curriculum enrichment. At Farley Hill, we have a new 40 place Nursery to Year 1 Early Years Centre that admitted 16 new pupils in September 23.
We will admit a further 16 in September 24, and a further 8 in September 25 to complete the 40 place provision.
We tailor a personalised Educational Programme for every pupil to ensure that they reach their full potential as well as providing a bespoke sequential curriculum steeped in SEND pedagogy. The school has a long history of being outstanding and in March 2023 secured Outstanding again under the new Ofsted Framework.
We have particular strengths in our Creative Arts with Music a particular focus for all our students and have considerable expertise in teaching strategies for pupils with learning difficulties as well as Autism and Down Syndrome.We believe in a positive ethos based on a culture of mutual respect and openness, where we are all learning together to be 'a community committed to excellence and the development of the potential of all’.
We pride ourselves in our commitment to induction, professional development and on-going support to all our staff.
Our Aims- To know that what we do is making a difference to the lives of our young people.
- To continue to promote an inclusive approach to educational life.
- To expand our Parent and Community Partnership.
- To provide a learning environment based on mutual respect and self-advocacy.
- To create a challenging forward thinking culture.