Job Description
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Our wonderfully diverse community is seeking an engaging and driven Inclusion Leader (SENCO) to lead practice and provision for our children. A 'good' school (Ofsted November 2023), which is an IQM Centre of Excellence (May 2024), we are committed to achieving the best for every child, enabling excellent progress for all.
We will offer:
- A community that celebrates diversity and inclusion
- A support colleague, full time therapeutic workers and a team of dedicated learning assistants
- A network of practitioners through the Tiptree and Stanway Consortium
- Membership of the Child First Trust
- Access to the IQM Excellence Team
- Dedicated office space in this full-time, non-teaching position.
We seek:
- An organised, driven and optimistic mindset
- Highly effective knowledge and skill in putting in place what children need
- High quality relationships with children, colleagues, families and providers
- Ability to grow the skill and expertise of those you lead.
Salary: We honour your MPR/UPR progression and pay SEN2 allowance (SEN max).
Visits are encouraged. Please contact team@stgeorgesschool.org to book.
Information about the School
We are passionate about our school. Why? … you ask.
It’s simple really. St. George’s School is at the heart our community. It is a well-established school with a sense of pride, community spirit and values. It is also a school which is proud to be pushing forward; developing increasingly effective teaching and learning strategies that support all of our children … a truly inclusive place to be.
We are focused on improving many aspects of school life. We promote a love of reading for all children, grow skilled writers and mathematicians and support children effectively in both their learning and well-being. We aim to provide an engaging curriculum for all our young learners through interest, breadth and depth, and offer excellent facilities.
Our school is one that has been on an exciting journey of development. Formed from previous separate infant and junior schools in 2021, our newly formed primary school serves the community of New Town and beyond, and is committed to be inclusive of all.
Many of our classrooms are newly refurbished and are lovely places to teach and learn. With capacity for 680 children, including our own nursery, we are one of the largest primary settings in the area, and provide a true team ethos in which to grow professionally.
However, we still have much to do and believe that, by working in partnership to achieve a common purpose, we can continue to provide a school that is at the cutting edge of educational practice. We are graded 'Good' by Ofsted (2023) and are an Inclusion Quality Mark Centre of Excellence. In the last available value added benchmarks we were one of the highest rated schools in the locality.
We know that success is drawn from professional cooperation and partnership. We are therefore trustees of the Child First Trust, participants in Partners in Excellence (PiXL) and active members of a local schools’ partnership, newly launched in April this year. These networks enable teachers and leaders to learn from each other, and provide mutual support across schools. We encourage our teachers to develop themselves further through national qualifications, and give them a real and meaningful voice in the advancement of our practice and curriculum offer. Professionally, it is a great place to be.
So, as you can see, we really are passionate about our school and recognise that through enabling inspirational teaching, learning and leadership, we will set the school well on the way to improving further still.
The Headteacher and Governing Body