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Salary: MPS 1 - 6 considered

Employer: Academies for Character and Excellence

Location: Winsham Primary School, Chard, Somerset, TA20 4HY

Contract type: Permanent

Working pattern: Part time

Closing date: 31 January 2025 9:00 am

About the job

Key information

FTE 0.8 – 4 days per week
Winsham Primary School
MPS 1 – 6 considered
Permanent
Start Date ASAP

The Academies for Character and Excellence believes in ‘Personal Growth for All’ and our shared outcomes are rooted in excellence, each of our seventeen schools across Devon Somerset and are committed to a strong ethos and culture. The schools in our trust work together to ensure that we translate our vision of excellence into everyday practice.

We are truly collaborative, and we work together within and across our schools to ensure that all our children and staff members achieve their potential. Together we work to create a full and rich curriculum offer allowing everyone to flourish – we translate our vision of excellence into our everyday practice. We are proud of our outcomes, but we aspire to achieve more than just academic excellence for our children. We also want our children to become healthy thinkers, curious explorers, caring citizens, knowledgeable participants and confident individuals.

We aim to serve our communities, and our schools make every effort to connect with families, local community groups and organisations to ensure that our children and families are nurtured, supported and provided with opportunities through our schools.

Our value of equity leads us to want the very best of every child and every staff member. The Academies for Character and Excellence believes in ‘Personal Growth for All’, and we are committed to tackle inequalities and overcome disadvantage and to provide bespoke opportunities for professional learning for all.

What kind of experience or qualifications do I need?

For Winsham Primary School we are looking to appoint an exceptional candidate who:

  • Will be committed to ensuring that all children achieve the highest possible outcomes
  • Can inspire and motivate children and enable them to be the best that they can be
  • Has a passion to ensure high expectations for all teaching and learning, whilst ensuring outstanding pupil progress which inspire, motivate and challenge pupils
  • Has an understanding of collaborative learning
  • To work in partnership with the head teacher, local governing body and the wider community to ensure that our mission and ethos is translated into action.

What is in it for me?

We can offer the candidate:

  • An exciting and innovative Trust that will inspire and allow you to reach your full potential
  • Collaborative support within Trust Improvement Groups
  • Inspirational leadership with support from a Lead Practitioner and an NLE
  • A Trust which cultivates pupils through character development leading to a stimulating and innovative curriculum
  • Polite, happy and engaged children with a great enthusiasm for learning
  • Working with like-minded professionals across the Trust enabling continuous professional support

DBS check

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS clearance is required for this post.

Supporting documents and information

For further information please email Andrea Johnson, HR Advisor andrea.johnson@acexcellence.co.uk or to arrange a school visit please contact the school office directly on (01460) 30377.

An application form is available from our website. Applications must be completed and emailed to recruitment@acexcellence.co.uk by 9am on Friday 31 January 2025 and interviews will be held the following week.

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