Headteacher's Welcome

Hello, I am Pete Boulton, the head teacher of Ashford Park Primary School and I would like to extend a warm welcome to you as you explore our school website, which introduces our three form entry primary school for children aged 4 to 11 (Reception to Year 6). We are exceptionally proud to be a community school, located in the heart of North Ashford, meeting the school place requirements for the families living in our local area.

Our vision of 'Inspiring a love for lifelong learning', through our aims of 'Achieving Potential Producing Success', encapsulates all that we stand for, through providing exciting, engaging and challenging learning opportunities for your child.

Ashford Park is a large, yet happy and friendly school, where everyone matters. We aim to provide the very best education for all of the children in our care, by contributing to their wellbeing, intellectual, physical, social and emotional development, working in partnership with you, our parents, our carers and our community. Our children are our richest resource and we seek to foster a love for lifelong learning. Even from such a young age, we fully appreciate that the education that we provide, empowers our children to make informed choices about their life and may guide their future.

At Ashford Park, we actively promote hard work, hold high expectations and support engagement through our curriculum, which encourages your children to build resilience and satisfaction with their learning. We hope that during your child's time with us, they enjoy coming to school, learn to like themselves and others and develop a love for lifelong learning. As a parent or carer, we want to work in partnership with you, concerning all aspects of school life. We endeavour to create a caring and positive atmosphere, to enable highly effective relationships with your child at the heart of all that we do at our school, supporting them to make the most of their childhood years.

I am excited to come to work every day, as the Head Teacher of this thriving and caring school. Working alongside a team of staff who understand the uniqueness of childhood, and a dedicated Governing body, we look forward to welcoming you to Ashford Park Primary School in the near future, if you feel that Ashford Park, is the right school for your child and for your family.

If you're searching for your next education job, please get in touch. You'll be working for a great employer and be part of a friendly, helpful team. We're always interested to hear from enthusiastic, committed education professionals - send us your CV now via our Talent Pool and detail what sort of role you're looking for. By joining our Talent Pool we'll know you're interested in working here when the right vacancy comes up.

The Ashford Park vision is to:‘Inspire a love for lifelong learning’

through our aims of

‘Achieving Potential Producing Success’ (APPS).

Our shared mission is to develop well-rounded, confident and responsible individuals who aspire to achieve their full potential. We will do this by providing consistently high quality teaching in a welcoming, happy, safe and supportive learning environment in which everyone is equal and all achievements are celebrated.

"The school has high expectations of pupils. The motto of 'Achieving Potential, Producing Success' is understood and used by pupils across the school.

They are proud to be part of the school and recognise the high expectations the school has for them.

They live up to these expectations, demonstrating the school values in how they behave and also in their learning.

Pupils love the different subjects they learn.

Consequently, all pupils achieve well."

Ofsted, 2024

Ashford Park is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

• Safeguarding responsibilities for all posts - to understand the importance of safeguarding, and ensure that the school's aims and objectives in relation to safeguarding are promoted in everyday organisation and practice.
• Applicants will be subject to a safeguarding check through an Enhanced Vetting and Barring Scheme.
• We will only accept fully completed and signed application forms.
• CVs will not be accepted.
• We shall approach referees for shortlisted candidates prior to interview and will seek references from your current employer.

Ashford Park is a welcoming and friendly primary school which plays host to a specialist centre, complete with a therapy dog and rabbits. Our three form entry primary school is looking to the future to recruit colleagues keen to apply our curriculum supported through imaginative learning projects to teach exciting and engaging lessons.

We pride ourselves on our commitment to developing leaders from within the school and invest in National Professional Qualifications and Masters study for committed and passionate staff. All teachers become part of a supportive curriculum group and are encouraged to promote their subject throughout the school. Our teachers have membership to the 'Chartered College', and we invest significantly in our professional learning and development, by inviting educationalists and authors such as Alex Quigley, Marc Rowland, Tom Sherrington, Mary Myatt and Paul Garvey to run INSET on identified school priorities, to improve and enhance our provision for our children.

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