Nailsea School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form, and is part of the Wessex Learning Trust. Situated less than 10 miles from Bristol it enjoys the benefits of a small town whilst being on the doorstep of one of the U.K.’s most prosperous, vibrant and creative cities. Nailsea School is a community that demonstrates a common purpose - to ensure the very best for each and everyone of their students.

At Nailsea School all students are valued and each individual is encouraged to be the best version of themselves: to Aspire, Believe and Succeed.

Nailsea School was re-built in 2009 and the space speaks for itself; designed with students in mind, its free-flowing structure makes navigation easy and there is a sense of calm learning throughout the school. As well as benefiting from excellent sporting facilities, including an all-weather pitch, fantastic creative arts facilities with music, TV and art studios, and technology throughout the school, the school has excellent ecological credentials.

Understanding that each child is different, Nailsea School has developed a range of inclusive ways to meet individual needs including a specialist learning centre within the school for students with specific educational needs and disabilities, and a DEN (Developing Engagement in Nature) area where Forest School principles are taught.

The change from childhood to adulthood can be challenging and we believe that confidence, happiness and strong communication skills form the foundations for success. Our in-school pastoral team advise and nurture the whole child, offering support with social skills, peer problems, anxiety, home or academic issues. Experts in safeguarding, counselling and mentoring work alongside our Heads of House and tutors to support students well-being.

The House structure’s vertical tutor groups integrate year groups and encourages peer to peer learning and support. This leads to strong friendships, confident relationships between groups and a comfortable family base from which students thrive. Feedback from a dynamic student voice programme connecting the whole school, reveals students to be happy and flourishing.

We are proud of the behaviour of our students and visitors often remark on the studious, calm atmosphere within the school. Staff and students work together to ensure the effectiveness of rules and behaviour policies around the school create a fair and safe environment for all, with a focus on effort as well as achievement.

We have an achievement focused culture where there is no ceiling on what our students can accomplish. We will never compromise on excellence so that all students thrive and achieve their absolute best.

Through high quality teaching, strong pastoral systems and a focus on personal and social development we seek to prepare each unique student for the bright and optimistic future they have ahead of them.

When we aspire and believe together, our community succeeds.

Aspire | Believe | Succeed 

At Nailsea, we strive to inspire and support every member of our community to achieve excellence through a love of learning, and a desire to succeed. We challenge ourselves to continually improve and understand that endeavour and effort are central to meeting the highest of expectations. We are committed to creating a happy, purposeful and secure environment, which provides the opportunity for all to develop and grow; to build confidence and self-belief; and to be enriched and stimulated so that we can all contribute significantly and positively to the Nailsea community and beyond.

The school provides a caring and inclusive environment that values each child. Staff are committed to ensuring the best outcomes for those that they teach or work with and there is a very positive feeling and ethos in the school, which I am determined to maintain. Our vision for Nailsea is rooted in our desire to provide an outstanding, inclusive and aspirational education for local children that will prepare them for adult life. We cannot know exactly what the future will bring for our students, but by giving them a love of learning, adaptable skills and the determination to succeed, we will enable them to rise to whatever challenges they face.

I am extremely ambitious for the school and its students and require staff who share this ambition. I hope you are confident in your ability to help benefit our community, whatever the role you are applying for, you will be part of a team, that puts our students first.

I trust, this ambition will inspire and motivate you to apply.

Mrs Dee Elliott

Headteacher