Classroom Teacher

Classroom Teacher

Job title: Teacher

Reporting to: SLT

Employer: The Pears Family School London

Salary: MPS-UPS

Location: Central London (Islington)

Working hours: 37.5 hours a week (39 weeks)

Term of contract: Permanent

School Background

Pears Family School is a therapeutic Alternative Provision free school (AP) school specialising in providing short-term placements for up to 36 students with complex needs (SEN). The School is a centre of high-quality and innovative alternative education provision for children, families and schools across London.

Our vision is to provide our pupils with the confidence, educational progress and ambition necessary for a successful reintegration into mainstream school or appropriate alternative. This includes cultivating a productive lifestyle, personal resilience and the values required to become responsible members of society.

A DIFFERENT TYPE OF SCHOOL

The Pears Family School is a different type of school that provides opportunities for young people who currently present as unsuited or unable to meet the demands of their current educational provision (mainstream and alternative). It is our conviction that many of these children have tremendous latent potential that an innovative school will nurture and release for the benefit of the wider society. These children need early and sustained intervention to ensure that in the first instance they are not permanently excluded from school or, where they have already been excluded, to ensure their return to full time appropriate provision is rapid and sustained.

The Pears Family School enables its pupils to:

• Make accelerated progress academically from their starting point upon joining us.
• Improve their challenging behaviours;
• Recover their psychological and emotional well-being and that of the wider family.
• Gain resilience so that they can continue with full-time education and return successfully to their mainstream school or appropriate specialist provision.

The focus is on families helping themselves and each other to create the conditions and changes necessary so that their children can resolve their problems and be better equipped to return to school as functioning learners. Therapeutic techniques are embedded in all aspects of the teaching and learning programme.

Our fundamental belief is that all children have a right to high-quality education, even when they are psychologically or emotionally unwell, or when their behaviour is preventing them making progress in mainstream schools, and that their learning and education should continue during their treatment and recovery.