Class Teachers
Addington Special School
Woodley
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS plus SEN Allowance
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2023
- Apply by:
- 14 May 2023
Job overview
We are a large all-age Outstanding Special School on the edge of Reading in Woodley and, due to expansion, we are recruiting teaching staff. We are also opening the Addington Early Years Centre, an additional site, in Sep/Oct 2023 in Farley Hill.
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
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 welcome visits to our main school site in Woodley.
Please contact Sara Attra, Headteacher on 0118 966 9073 if you wish to discuss this role further.
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 310 pupils, aged between 3 and 19 years across 2 sites.
Based in Woodley and Farley Hill, we are part of a newly formed multi-academy trust with deep community roots across the Berkshire area, composed of a family of SEN schools all specialising in learning difficulties. 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 40 place Nursery to Year 1 Early Years Centre.
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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