Highbank is all about 3 words:

HAPPINESS, PROGRESS and SUCCESS

Above all else, we want every child at Highbank to be happy; we believe that school years should be the best of your life! We want our children to leave Highbank feeling valued, confident and most of all with fond memories that they will cherish forever. To achieve this we aim to know every child as an individual knowing their strengths, weaknesses and what motivates them. To be happy at school every child must feel comfortable, safe and involved. And every member of staff at Highbank works hard to ensure EVERY child achieves this.

A happy child is a learning child who will make progress and achieve great success!

We believe Highbank to be like a big family! One that shares and celebrates successes, helps each other through difficult times, looks after and teaches each other and occasionally falls out! We welcome everyone into this family environment and have a very open door policy; we want to involve all of the family in the child's learning journey from the day they start in Nursery to when they leave at 11 ready to go on to great things.

At Highbank:

• We welcome everyone and are proud of our school and where we live.
• We have fun in finding new ways of doing things.
• We take care of ourselves and each other, and keep ourselves safe.
• We always try our best in everything we do.
• We are all friends and work well by ourselves and with each other.
• At Highbank we talk to an adult if we are upset, angry or frightened.

If you're searching for your next teaching 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 teachers.

Highbank Primary and Nursery School is a member of the Transform Trust and Teaching School Alliance

Transform will provide a school improvement structure. This will be a responsive and proactive service.

Schools supported by Transform will have access to education expertise, support and experience from across the growing Teaching School Alliance.

Within the Alliance is a core school improvement capability of 5 National Leaders of Education, 9 Local Leaders of Education, 2 National Leaders of Governance, 18 Specialist Leaders of Education, as well as 24 ITP/OTP facilitators and 5 Ofsted trained inspectors (AI).

Staff will be able to access a significant range of opportunities and professional development programmes. The Alliance is continuously developing capacity to accelerate school improvement and enable high quality learning and teaching. This will include:

·         School Direct Initial Teacher Training with outstanding partner, The University of Nottingham

·         Middle and Senior Leaders Development Programme

·         Bespoke Leadership courses

·         Bespoke Coaching programmes

·         Developing SEN practice

·         Improving Teacher Programme

·         Outstanding Teacher Programme

Transform Teaching School Alliance was approved by the Department of Education in March 2012, followed by the Academy Sponsor role in early 2013.

Further Information can be found at our Trust website http://www.transformtrust.co.uk/