Teaching Assistant (Achievement Centre)
Wood Green School
Witney, Oxfordshire
- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- October 2018
- Apply by:
- 25 September 2018
Job overview
Wood Green School is a growing, popular, 11-18 mixed comprehensive school with an excellent academic and pastoral reputation. It has a thriving Sixth Form. Wood Green hosts a small unit for students with moderate learning difficulties called the Achievement Centre. Students have core lessons within the Achievement Centre in small groups, but also integrate into tutor groups and classes for some subjects.
All students in the Achievement Centre have an Education, Health and Care Plan and are placed there based on an assessment of need. We are looking for a full time permanent Teaching Assistant to join our school as part of the Achievement Centre team, to start in October 2018 or as soon as possible after then.
Key Purposes of this post:
1. Support the learning of students in the Achievement Centre
2. Help students in the Achievement Centre become independent learners and achieve their full potential
3. Working with colleagues across the school to integrate the students
4. Reviewing progress of the students
5. Meet the professional standards of this post and of Wood Green School Pay scale: Grade 4 term time only.
Actual salary: £10,719. Hours: 28 hours per week. Term time only.
Attached documents
About Wood Green School
Wood Green School is a mixed, comprehensive, secondary school with sixth form situated in Witney, Oxfordshire. It is an academy converter operating under The Acer Trust, which was co-founded by four Oxfordshire schools: Wood Green School, Chalgrove Primary School, Icknield Community College and Matthew Arnold School.
Wood Green School provides 1,335 places for students between the ages of 11 and 18 when fully subscribed. It converted to academy status in February 2017.
Headteacher
Rob Shadbolt
Values and vision
Wood Green School subscribes to the Acer Trust values of trust, equity and opportunity, believing these are essential for a successful collaboration and for providing high-quality education for all students through these important years of their lives.
The secondary school also uses the LEARN Well values of learning, effort, aspiration, respect, nurture and wellbeing to capture the most important aspects of an excellent education. High expectations are always placed on students, and they are helped to achieve these in a happy and supportive environment.
Ofsted report
“Leaders at all levels, teachers and governors have effectively brought about improvement across the school. Leaders make very effective use of information on students’ progress to identify where strengths and weaknesses life. Subject leaders make a positive contribution to improvement by closely monitoring the quality of teaching in their departments. Students’ social, spiritual, moral and cultural development is promoted effectively across the school and strongly contributes to the school’s caring ethos.”
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