ST ANN’S HEATH JUNIOR SCHOOL Class teacher Appointment
Learning Together, Achieving Today, Prepared For Tomorrow
Summer Term 2017
St Ann's Heath Junior School
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all members of the school and its community to demonstrably share this commitment.
School Vision Statement
At St Ann’s Heath Junior School we aspire to educate, care for and develop all our children to their highest standards, and to ensure that their time with us is a safe and happy experience from which they gain personal success and a lifelong love of learning.
School Strategy
At St Ann’s Heath Junior School we will achieve our vision by:
• Delivering an excellent education through our exciting, broad and balanced curriculum which enables every child to succeed and develop their talents;
• Ensuring that all children have equal access to the school curriculum and activities, and that support and challenge are employed effectively to develop each individual;
• Continually improving the standards of achievement and progress of our children through well targeted interventions and rigorous monitoring;
• Increasing the strength and effectiveness of our leadership team and our middle leaders;
• Ensuring that all teaching is good or outstanding;
• Enabling our staff through a structured performance management system with clear success criteria and supportive guidance from leadership;
• Caring for and developing our staff team at all levels to ensure that everyone is able to give of their best in supporting and extending our children;
• Maintaining the highest standards of safeguarding, behaviour, care and welfare for our children and staff;
• Actively engaging our parents and carers in school life and in the education of their children;
• Ensuring that governance is of the highest standards and that our governors are well trained, informed and involved with the school;
• Actively contributing to the life of the local community by participating in events and promoting the school and its activities; • Maintaining strong links with our feeder schools and local partnerships;
• Ensuring that all our resources be they financial, people, buildings or equipment are deployed optimally to the benefit of our children’s achievement and success.
School Aims
At St Ann’s Heath Junior School we aim to be a school where:
• all members of the school community, adults and children, are valued and respected as individuals for the contribution they make to the life of the school;
• all children have the equality of opportunity to enable them to reach their full potential through a rich, exciting and inspiring curriculum, equipping them for life-long learning in a fast-changing technological world;
• all children are encouraged to develop respect and care for themselves, for others and for the world in which they live;
• opportunities are provided through the curriculum and extra-curricular activities to extend children’s talents;
• good behaviour is actively promoted and children develop a sense of self- discipline and an acceptance of responsibility for their own actions;
• the involvement of parents and the community is promoted and encouraged, so as to support successful learning.
School Values
At St Ann’s Heath Junior School we value: • Honesty • A sense of fairness • Trust • Respect and consideration • Sensitivity • A sense of shared responsibility • A willingness to persevere • A desire to succeed
About Us St Ann’s Heath is moving from a two form to three form entry junior school that serves Virginia Water and the local area, including Thorpe, Lyne, and parts of Chertsey, Egham, Englefield Green and Staines. This is, overall, a mixed socio economic catchment area with some social priority, but mostly owner occupied, housing. Census information for the wards served indicates that the percentage of Adults with higher education is well above national average High social class households is well above national average Minority ethnic children is below national average Overcrowded households is well below national average
We currently have two classes in Years 5 and 6, and three classes in Years 3 and 4. The number of children on the SEN register is currently 43 (9 statements, 34 SEN support). This represents 15% of our pupils. 16% of our children are pupil premium.
Children transfer to us from five main feeder schools, with highest numbers coming from Trumps Green Infants and Meadowcroft, who are both now named feeder schools for us.
At St Ann’s Heath we aim to provide a broad, rich and exciting curriculum for our pupils. We are regarded as being highly inclusive in nature- all children are valued, respected and cared for as individuals. Equality of opportunity is embedded in our school aims. Personal and social development and the development of the whole child, is extremely important to us and considered to be strengths of the school.
A consistently large number of parents choose to send their children to us as meeting the educational and pastoral needs of children with SEND which is also considered to be a strength. The SENCO works extremely hard to ensure that identification of SEND is effective and provision is made as appropriate, which includes having close links with agencies such as Behaviour Support and Speech & Language.
We aim for all children to have opportunities, both through the curriculum and through the wide range of before and after school activities offered, to experience successes and to work collaboratively in a variety of settings, eg project work, sports teams, as members of the cast in a production etc. Other special features of the school include- Enhancing the curriculum through visits (including residential trips in Years 5 and 6), visitors and special events Enhancing the curriculum through specialist teaching for games, music and French; being an Active Mark School, Sports Mark Bronze, and a Healthy School. Sporting achievements over recent years include Runnymede and Elmbridge district Year 6 football champions in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2014; R and E district Year 6 netball champions in 2010 and defeated finalists in 2014, R and E Year 6 athletics champions in 2010, R and E tag rugby champions in 2013 and R and E Y5 rounders champions in 2013. Producing two musicals each year, the Christmas Show and a spectacular summer production Liaison with our feeder infant schools and the induction arrangements for children joining the school, and our support for children who might be vulnerable on transfer to The Magna Carta School, to where the majority of our children move for the next stage of their education. An active member school of the North Runnymede Learning Partnership, a federation of 12 local schools who work closely together to provide extra experiences for target groups of children (eg more able mathematicians); support for parents eg HSLW, family learning opportunities; and network groups and CPD for staff. A strong partnership with parents, who are very supportive of the values, aims, work and achievements of the school An after school childcare facility- The Den, currently catering for around 30 children on a daily basis from 3.10 to 6.00pm. Partnership school with St Mary’s College, Twickenham
Our most recent Ofsted inspection took place in April 2015 and we have been categorised as a “Good School”.
School Organisation
The teaching time at St Ann’s Heath is 23.5 hours a week excluding daily acts of worship, breaks and registration. Children enter school at 8.50am for the start of the day. Break is from 11.00 to 11.15am and lunchtime is at 12.15pm. Afternoon school begins at 1.10 and ends at 3.10pm.
The Children
Children at St Ann’s Heath are for the most part confident, articulate and talented, whilst at the same time well behaved, polite and caring. The children are seeking a class teacher who will be approachable, calm and thoughtful, and someone who will make their learning fun!
The Staff
Each class has a full-time equivalent teacher; in three classes this includes a teacher ‘job share.’ Teachers plan collaboratively in their year group teams and each year group is represented on our English and Maths development teams that meet half termly. The Senior Leadership Team is comprised of the Headteacher, two Assistant Headteachers (who lead the English and Maths teams), and the Inclusion Manager.
We have a team of 18 full and part time Teaching Assistants. There is also a full time bursar, part time admin secretary and part time finance assistant, and a caretaker who lives on site. An ICT technician works with us for one afternoon a week.
The Governing Body
We have a very supportive governing body of 14 governors, who take a lively interest in the school and its activities. Each governor has a place on one or more of the three main committees – Vision and Ethos, Learning and Finance and Personnel.
FOSAH
The school is well supported by an active and talented Parents’ Association who regularly raise over £10,000 a year through a range of activities, including Christmas and Summer Fairs.
NRLP and ERPSSA
We are an active member school of the North Runnymede Learning Partnership (NRLP) comprising of 12 other local schools, and also of the Elmbridge and Runnymede Primary Schools Sports Association (ERPSSA). Surrey Local Authority
Surrey is a large local authority which has maintained school support services of high quality.
Application Procedure
Candidates should fully complete the application form and return it to the school by 12.00 noon on Wednesday 7th June 2017. Interviews will take place on Wednesday 14th June 2017.
You are advised to provide a statement in support of your application that should explain how your experience has helped prepare you for the post of class teacher, with particular reference to the expectations stated in the enclosed person specification and job description.
Applicants are warmly encouraged to visit the school. To arrange a visit, please contact the school office on 01344 842900 or by email to [email protected]