Class Teacher
Addington Special School
Woodley and Farley Hill
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPR/UPR plus SEN 1 Allowance
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 13 October 2024
Job overview
Required January 2025
Location: Woodley
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 per cent also having Autism. All pupils have an Education and Health Care Plan and we are currently accommodating up to 308 pupils aged between 3 and 19 years across two sites located in Woodley and Farley Hill.
We are able to offer an exciting opportunity to join our team of dedicated and passionate teaching staff commencing January 2025.
We can offer:
- The opportunity to work in a special school judged ‘outstanding’ with a highly experienced Senior Leadership Team.
- 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.
We are looking for teachers:
- With a passion for teaching children and young people with learning difficulties.
- With a commitment to high professional standards.
- Who are skilled communicators and team players who are committed to developing themselves and others.
- Who show empathy with parents and desire true working in partnership.
Please contact Lynda Wood or David Maycock, Co-Headteachers on 0118 966 9073 if you wish to discuss the role further or arrange a visit to the school.
To apply, please submit an application form before the closing date. Please note that we are unable to accept CVs.
Closing date: 13th October 2024
Interviews: w/c 14th October 2024
This 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.
Attached documents
About Addington Special School
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- Addington Special School
- Woodlands Avenue, Woodley, Reading
- Berkshire
- RG5 3EU
- United Kingdom
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.
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