Literacy and Reading Champion
St Benedict's Catholic School
Suffolk
- Salary:
- Grade 4 points 9-11 currently £27, 269 to £28, 624 pro rata
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 13 December 2024
Job overview
We are looking for someone who loves books and literature as much as we do to join our school community and share an enthusiasm for reading with our students.
This post aims to enhance student experience and engagement with reading. The role involves direct work with students; supporting and leading reading interventions but also through extra-curricular activities before and after school as well as the physical running and administration of the library. The Reading and Literacy Champion will promote reading across the curriculum and liaise with the Head of English and other middle and senior leaders to support whole school literacy and a culture of reading. We are looking for someone who will help to ensure that reading remains at the heart of our school and that the library is vibrant, inviting and somewhere that students feel welcomed and inspired. This is a term-time only role currently 37 hours per week (ideally with a working pattern of 8am-4.30pm Mon-Thurs and 8am-4.00pm Friday), although potential colleagues offering fewer hours will be considered. As this is a term time only role the salary is pro-rata according to the weeks worked.
Our school is committed to our mission as a Catholic community and seeks to help all our young people achieve their potential both academically and personally. We can offer a positive environment where you will be encouraged to progress further in your career should you wish, supported by a team of staff who are hardworking and dedicated to the school.
For more details of the school and how to apply please see our website
https://www.st-benedicts.suffolk.sch.uk/jobapplicationforms
or contact Stef Buchan- Head's PA.
Our Ofsted 2022 report states:
St Benedict’s Catholic School continues to be a good school.
It goes on to say:
Pupils say that their school is a happy place where they feel safe and accepted. They know that their teachers look after them and provide them with the support they need.
Pupils demonstrate very positive attitudes to their work. It is important for them to be the best they can be. They are also respectful, kind and compassionate towards each other, their teachers and visitors to the school. Older students are mature and self-assured, and support younger pupils in and out of the classroom.
Attached documents
About St Benedict's Catholic School
- St Benedict's Catholic School
- Beetons Way, Bury St. Edmunds
- Suffolk
- IP32 6RH
- United Kingdom
Headteacher
Mrs Imogen Senior
About St Benedict's Catholic School
St Benedict's is a mixed Catholic comprehensive secondary school in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. The school currently has c970 students aged 11-18, rising to c980 by September 2023. Ours is a popular school and pupils come to us from a wide geographical range across West Suffolk, extending into Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex. Around 60% of our students describe themselves as Catholic. In September 2022 the school became an Academy and joined Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Trust.
We received an Ofsted Section 8 inspection in 2022 which reported that St Benedict’s Catholic School continues to be a good school.
The report goes on to say:
Pupils say that their school is a happy place where they feel safe and accepted. They know that their teachers look after them and provide them with the support they need.
Pupils demonstrate very positive attitudes to their work. It is important for them to be the best they can be. They are also respectful, kind and compassionate towards each other, their teachers and visitors to the school. Older students are mature and self-assured, and support younger pupils in and out of the classroom.
Pupils interact well with each other and with their teachers. They help each other in class. They listen carefully and appreciate others’ hard work. Instances of low-level disruption are very rare. Bullying hardly exists. Should it happen, it is dealt with swiftly.
Pupils flourish as a result of the school’s powerful caring ethos. Pupils are open minded and confident. They embrace diversity, respect difference and understand other world religions. Pupils say, ‘It is a school where it is okay to be different.’
Please full report for more details.
Our Section 48 Diocesan Inspection of the religious character of the school June/ July 2022 judged the school to be Outstanding.
Our school is committed to our mission as a Catholic community and seeks to help all our young people achieve their potential both academically and personally.
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