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Lunchtime Teacher - Part-time

Whitfield Aspen School, Dover

  • Ref:KCC886-2471-92T
  • Posted:08/03/2019
  • Pay:MPS
  • Start Date:Apr 2019
  • App Close Date:22/03/2019 at 12:00
  • Interviews:28th March 2019

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Lunchtime Teacher required for one year from April 2019 (or as soon as possible)

Mainscale Salary Point 2/3 Part Time Hours: 11.30am – 2.00pm with flexibility to work extra hours as and when required.

Exciting, innovative, unique, creative, inspirational!

Do any of these words sound like you? Would you like the chance to develop the learning for our pupils in the outside learning environment at lunch times.

Whitfield Aspen School is seeking a dynamic teacher to join our successful team, to enhance learning, behaviour, social and independent play opportunities.  The strengths of our school’s outside learning environment include a playground, forest school, playing fields, quiet area, climbing wall and a hydrotherapy pool.  We are looking for someone who would embrace the challenge to maximise the opportunities for pupils to extend their cross curricular learning in this varied environment.

We are a fully inclusive school and strive to Learn Together with Aspiration, Imagination and Determination.  This is a rare opportunity for someone new to join our friendly and supportive staff so we need to find the right person.  Have you got what it takes? 

We are looking for:

  • An outstanding teacher who is committed to providing exciting and meaningful learning opportunities.
  • A team member who is determined to get high quality work from children.
  • A teacher who uses their imagination to enrich the children’s enjoyment of learning.

If you would like to join our highly motivated team, receive quality CPD and be part of the wider Samphire Learning Hub, we highly recommend you come and visit us before applying online.  This gives applicants a chance to see Whitfield (Main School) and Aspen (Special School) living and learning together.  This is a unique school which prides itself on how it enables everyone to learn together whilst treating everyone equally but not necessarily the same.

Please ensure that before submitting details of referees on your application form, that they are willing to provide a reference prior to the commencement of the interview process.

Contracts will be subject to satisfactory references, teacher barring and qualification checks and pre-employment health screening.

Our school and its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children.  This post is subject to an Enhanced Certificate from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Information about the school

Whitfield Aspen School is unusual in a national context.  It is a combination of a mainstream primary and a Specialist Resource Provision (SRP) for primary age pupils with profound, severe and complex learning needs (PSCN). In September 2022, we developed the Engagement Model as an approach across the whole school to support children with complex social emotional and mental health needs (SEMH), who are disengaged with their learning. In addition, there is a Specialist Intervention Nursery team who support interventions and next steps for identified children in local mainstream Nurseries. We also offer on-site provision for Specialist Intervention, for Nursery age children who are not able to access a mainstream setting, due to their complex needs.   

Whitfield Aspen School works collaboratively with a group of 11 other local mainstream schools, the Samphire Learning Hub. We are a group of schools that work collaboratively to improve outcomes for children. We also are part of Kent Special Educational Needs Trust which contains all the Special Schools within Kent. We work closely with them to ensure the staff within the SRP are as competent as those teachers working within Special Schools.

At Whitfield Aspen school the proportion of pupils with profound, severe and complex learning needs far exceeds the national average for a mainstream school.    In September 2021, the school split over 2 sites. The Richmond site opened for Yr. 4, Yr. 5, Yr. 6 and KS2 (Key Stage 2) pupils on the SRP roll. The lower school for EY, Yr.1, Yr.2 and Yr.3 and KS1 (Key Stage 1) pupils on the SRP roll, continues to be based on Mayfield Road. We are maintaining the fully inclusive model over both sites. 

An additional block will be added to the Richmond site during 2024-2025. This will create the capacity, initially, for an additional 4 classrooms. We currently have 630 students across two sites and in excess of 230 staff. Our Governors play an active role in school life and support our school aims fully.

In January 2025 we went through a Graded Inspection and maintained our Good status.

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.