SENCO
Willow Brook Primary Academy
Waltham Forest
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2014
- Apply by:
- 22 April 2014
Job overview
SENCO, Waltham Forest
Make a Bigger Impact
Willow Brook Primary School is an exciting and energetic place where children have high aspirations, a passion for learning and a love of creativity. It is a large 3 form-entry school with 21 classes and a 90 place nursery. Our school is on the edge of the Olympic site, close to green spaces and is a stunning mix of old and new. The Victorian building has been redesigned and now includes purpose-built, modern additions, to create the best possible learning environment. Children have specialist teaching for art, P.E. music and IT and take part in a vast range of extra-curricular activities. This 3-form entry primary school has strong links with local primary and secondary settings and is working in partnership with the Griffin Schools Trust.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative and creative SENCO to join us and our dynamic team. The successful candidate will be reflective, articulate and dedicated to bringing positive changes for our strong community. We are keen to find out what inspires and motivates you and what skills you will bring to the school, as extra-curricular activities are a big part of school life.
The successful candidate will have access to outstanding support and mentoring by working with the school and the Griffin Schools Trust. Leadership development opportunities and generous TLR allowances will be available for outstanding applicants.
Opportunities for Master's Level qualifications and study at the Institute of Education are also available.
Application by CV and letter to Patsy Fitzpatrick, Headteacher.
Email Jacqueline.griffith@waltham.willowbrook.sch.uk or telephone 020 8539 1428
Visits to the school are welcomed. Please contact the school to arrange a time.
Closing date: Tuesday 22nd April 2014 at 12 noon.
Interviews will be conducted Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 April.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of all children and expects staff to share this commitment.
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
About Willow Brook Primary Academy
About the Griffin Schools Trust
The Griffin Schools Trust (GST) is a family of ten primary and two secondary schools in the Midlands, London and South East. We have a strong track record in making schools much better for children and their families and for the staff who work with us. Our single most important mission is to provide the conditions in which children discover who they are and then go on confidently to take their places in society, making a contribution to the world through the use of their talents. We will never prepare children to know their places.
When schools decide to join us they bring their histories to us and together we turn them into traditions reflecting the Trust’s mission and values whilst preserving and extending the each school’s individuality. We offer a rich curriculum and an unusual range of enrichment and extension clubs and activities. We also have shared traditions so that children form every school feel part of the same family. Every summer term we hold the Griffin Arts Festival. In the spring we have Founders Day and the Science Symposium and in the autumn students compete in the Griffin Science Symposium. All these festivals are linked in an annual theme schools’ four houses compete for a Trust cup which is awarded to the house colour which has accumulated most points from all Trust events. All staff, including the CEO, belong to a house.
Great GST schools have nothing institutional about them and great GST staff are thoughtfully recruited for their excellent knowledge and their broad interests. They are developed by Heads as well as the research and training opportunities offered across the Trust to add their individual magic to the mix. All our schools practice open and distributed leadership and place a high value on creativity as well as growing great talent pipelines to ensure that there are plenty of opportunities for promotion within and beyond the school.
Look at our website and click through to some of the schools as well as the one to which you are applying. We are frequently told that colleagues have found their professional home at GST. Is it yours? We look forward to hearing from you.
Anne Powell
Chief Executive Officer
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