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  • Job Title

    Resource Base Teacher

  • Location

    Trowbridge, Wiltshire

  • Posted

    20th March 2024

  • School

    The John of Gaunt School

  • Salary

    MPS / UPS

  • Hours

    Full Time

  • Description

    Resource Base Teacher Start Date:  September 2024 or sooner, if possible Contract: Permanent Hours: Full-time Salary:  MPS/ UPS Plus SEN Allowance of £2,539 per annum We ...

  • Job Title

    Assistant Headteacher

  • Location

    Trowbridge, Wiltshire

  • Posted

    15th March 2024

  • School

    The John of Gaunt School

  • Salary

    L11 - L15

  • Hours

    Full Time

  • Description

    Assistant Headteacher - Raising Standards, Data and Assessment Start Date: September 2024 Contract: Permanent Hours: Full-time Salary: L11 - L15 We are seeking to appoint an outst ...

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Overview

The John of Gaunt School is a unique, vibrant and highly successful school. The School has a strong reputation for both academic and pastoral excellence, and it is a great honour to be the Headteacher.

Whilst we are first and foremost a place of learning, we strive to ensure that students are academically nurtured and cared for in a safe environment in which they can be happy, grow, gain in confidence and be challenged to achieve in all aspects of school life.

Our school provides a learning environment that is rich in encouragement, and enthusiasm along with a belief in every individual. We offer a curriculum and a pastoral system designed to enrich the learning experience of all our students, whatever their ability. Helping our young people develop into confident, sensitive and reflective adults is fundamental. During their time at The John of Gaunt School we will ensure young people meet or exceed their potential, this is achieved though outstanding teaching and careful support for each young person throughout their time with us.

We pride ourselves in being a community school. We thrive on strong supportive relationships with parents and carers and believe that students are best educated when parents, students and staff all work in unison.

At The John of Gaunt School we believe in regularly celebrating the success of learners, no matter how small the accomplishment. The school offers a wide range of extra-curricular clubs, before school, during lunch times and after school, as well as cultural trips and visits, foreign exchanges and residential trips, we believe these opportunities enrich the lives of our young people and enhance our already thriving curriculum offer.

We thoroughly enjoy having visitors and would like to encourage you to come in and visit us at any time, we have a fantastic reputation and are proud of the excellent recent OFSTED inspection. We would be delighted to show our school on a normal school day in order for you to sample our open, caring and nurturing ethos. If there is anything that we can help with, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.

Mr B Rhodes

Headteacher

Mission, Ethos and Values

"Excellence Every Day"

Our Mission

Our mission is to make sure that all our students, regardless of their circumstances, discover their personal best and thrive academically, individually and socially.

We are relentless in driving high expectations and make no apology for ensuring high standards across the school. We will continually ensure every student achieves excellent results, with high-quality teaching and a first-class curriculum, underpinned by outstanding cultural capital experiences and exceptional pastoral care.


Ethos and Culture

We are a highly inclusive school that blends nurturing individual care with high standards and expectations.

Our students are proud of their school and are happy, ambitious inquisitive learners. They thrive on a curriculum and character education programme that takes place in classrooms, and includes clubs, trips and activities. Our ethos is underpinned by strong relationships between students, parents, carers, staff and governors, who all work tirelessly together to ensure students develop their individual characteristics to be successful at school and beyond.

Values Kindness


Values

  • Kindness

At The John of Gaunt School we nurture, recognise and celebrate the important quality of being generous, helpful, and caring towards other people that is essential in our society today.

  • Positivity

Being optimistic in attitude is crucial for any person to be successful at any stage of their life. We believe that positivity breeds positivity, and so we foster this trait in all members of our school.

  • Belonging

All our staff and students must be happy and comfortable within our community at The John of Gaunt School. We want every member to feel welcome and accepted so that they can flourish.

PART OF EQUA MULTI ACADEMY TRUST

Equa Multi Academy Trust is a group of good and outstanding schools, initially five primary and one secondary, providing excellence in education for children in rural Wiltshire, aged 2-19. Initially, like-minded schools came together in 2016, with a common goal of providing the best possible learning opportunities for children in Wiltshire market towns, and surrounding villages. Equa Multi Academy formally formed on 1 April 2019.

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Working for us

If you're searching for your next post, why not contact us now? You'll be working at a great school and be part of a friendly, helpful team. We're always interested to hear from enthusiastic, committed individuals - send us your CV now via our School Talent Pool and say what sort of role you're looking for. By joining our School Talent Pool we'll know you're interested in working here when a future vacancy occurs.

WORKING FOR EQUA MULTI ACADEMY TRUST

If you share our commitment to securing transformational change and sustainable school improvement and would like to be part of our vision to provide excellence in education in a rural setting, throughout the age range, we would like to hear from you.

We all know that great schools are made by the great people in them. At Equa we believe in recruiting talented people and developing them to fulfil their career ambitions within our schools. We want our entrants into the trust to become our future great leaders, to continue to shape the future of all our young people, so giving Every Child, Every Chance.

Equa schools provide a great progression structure which allows careers to be built. We are keen to widen our talent pool and to bring more diversity into our schools.

The Equa recruitment strategy reflects the DfE national strategy by committing to:

  • Get the balance right between holding schools to account and helping them to improve;
  • Make the job manageable again, eradicating unnecessary workload and developing arrangements that support flexible working;
  • Invest in and embed school cultures that create a sense of value through ongoing professional development.

Our measures:

  • No vacancies remain unfilled
  • 90% of teaching staff are retained on an annual basis.
  • 80% of all support staff are retained.
  • 1 in 10 class teachers move within Equa schools to gain additional responsibilities, each year.
  • Staff voice indicates that 95% of staff are happy working within Equa schools and indicate that they will remain working in our schools for at least a further year.
  • Diversity within the workforce is increased through positive promotion.

What else we can offer you:

  • A friendly trust which looks after the wellbeing of its staff
  • A highly competitive salary
  • An excellent pension scheme
  • Excellent Sickness and Occupational Maternity schemes
  • Union recognition
  • Salary sacrifice schemes
  • Bike to Work Scheme
  • A lovely rural setting in which to work
  • A high performing school setting with excellent leadership
  • Access to high quality and bespoke CPD offer across the trust
  • A high quality and supportive induction programme
  • The opportunity to develop your career within and across the Trust Schools

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