Learning Support Assistant - Start date ASAP

Dear Candidate,

Thank you for expressing an interest in our school. As Headteacher, I am delighted to welcome you to Bullers Wood School for Boys, a boys’ comprehensive school in Bromley.

We opened in September 2018 and are now in our sixth year of operation. We have 900 boys on roll from Years 7 to 11. Our ambition is for our boys to progress on to Bullers Wood Sixth Form, located on our partner school site - Bullers Wood School for Girls. Our aim is to provide an outstanding education for boys within a culture of high aspiration, courtesy and respect. It is our core belief that all of our boys can enjoy and achieve success whatever their starting points.

In February 2023, the School had its first successful OFSTED Inspection and our first set of GCSE results in August 2023. The successful candidate will be joining a school where “pupils feel happy and safe”, “relationships throughout the school are welcoming and respectful” and “pupils listen politely to the views of others and discuss sensitive issues with maturity”. You will be supported by leaders who “have high expectations of behaviour” and we know that “pupils respond well to these”.

Although our site is compact, we enjoy spacious classrooms including specialist Science, Art, DT, Music and Drama facilities. IT facilities for staff are excellent. All teaching staff have ’plug and play’ laptops where resources and lessons can be uploaded, shared and presented from any classroom whiteboard in the building. Every classroom has a visualiser to facilitate interactive learning and we actively encourage the use of technology such as teaching tablets. Students also have good access to IT facilities where we have a designated computer suite, as well as a MAC suite, plus a number of laptop trollies on each floor. These are maintained by our dedicated Creative & Media Technician.

Although we have come a long way in the last six years, we continue to move forward on our journey to becoming an outstanding school. This post provides an excellent opportunity to make a significant impact with our flexible and responsive staff team, therefore, attracting the very best candidate is key. We are seeking staff who are passionate, engaging, driven and flexible. Most of all, staff who are resilient, who can build positive relationships with boys and young men and who are unafraid of rolling their sleeves up and getting stuck-in when necessary.  In return, we offer you the chance to be part of a team, continuing to develop a fantastic school serving this local community. We also offer you the support network of our established partner schools, Bullers Wood School for Girls, Chislehurst School for Girls, Charles Darwin School and Biggin Hill Primary School, as well as opportunities for enhanced professional and career development within the school and across a growing Inicio Educational Trust Academy.

We have created a great school in Bromley that will serve many generations of boys to come. After reading about us, I hope you will want to be part of our story and our continuing journey.