About this role
Seven Hills School is looking for full time Class Teacher to cover Maternity Leave.
Seven Hills School is an inspirational community, which nurtures talents, shares learning and celebrates life. The Seven Hills community is a strong and resourceful one with a central commitment to provide outstanding teaching and learning opportunities for all our students. Students are challenged to achieve their full potential. Teaching is designed to inspire and create activity, curiosity and engagement. We pride ourselves on helping to influence and shape future citizens who can contribute to their own well being and that of others and who can achieve in their own individual goals and aspirations.
The school operates over three sites, Granville Road (S2) The Bridge, which is a site on the Talbot/Newfield campus (S8) and Peaks College, Waterthorpe Greenway (S20).
The successful applicants will be based at Granville Road, but may need to be able to work at and travel to any of these sites.
At Seven Hills School we aim to promote curiosity and enthusiasm in our students, encourage them to become independent learners and to develop their confidence for life beyond school.
The Curriculum is built on four foundations; ‘Communication, Language and Literacy’ ‘Cognition and Learning’, ‘Social and Emotional’ and ‘Physical and Sensory’. All foundations are very closely connected, each complimenting and facilitating the development of the other. All students have independent learning priorities linked to these four foundations.
The implementation of the curriculum is made accessible and appropriate by clearly identifying a student’s needs and stage of development, ensuring the learning environment closely matches their needs. Our curriculum runs on three clear curriculum pathways. All curriculum pathways are delivered through a personalised approach built upon our four foundations. Students are assessed before entering the school to determine which pathway would best suit them and to enable individual needs to be met through the inclusive curriculum. Curriculum pathways will allow learning journeys to start from individual pupils’ current strengths and needs. The pathway selected will depend upon the student’s needs and long-term goals. We avoid rigid placement within a pathway and movement between pathways is possible following a re-evaluation of a student’s needs and progress.
We use the whole range of curriculum subjects to provide breadth of experience and opportunity. This approach maximises engagement in learning, ensures access to learning is personalised and rich and meaningful experiences support individual outcomes. The curriculum is implemented through contextual learning experiences where students are supported to generalise their skills across a range of learning opportunities. Teaching styles and pedagogy vary according the needs of the students, with an emphasis on developing independence across all pathways.
Through our curriculum and extra-curricular activities we aim to develop our students’ ability to manage their emotions, relate to others, organise themselves, gather and use information, as well as think creatively and critically. We aim to nurture, inspire, share learning and celebrate achievement.
You will work as class tutor for pupils with complex physical and learning needs and be committed to providing rich and challenging learning experiences across the curriculum. All pupils at Seven Hills School have learning difficulties and many have other associated difficulties relating to communication, behaviour, sensory, physical and/or medical disabilities. In common with many other special schools, pupils admitted have increasingly complex needs and some have challenging behaviour.
An ability to establish excellent relationships with students and deliver a wide range of subjects to students with very low level learning is essential. The successful applicant will be expected to teach students with a range of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. There may also be the opportunity for some specialist subject teaching across the school so please specify areas where you could deliver high quality subject teaching in your application.
Ideally the people appointed will have relevant experience/qualifications within SEND and be an enthusiastic, committed and a skilled professional. However, colleagues from both primary and secondary mainstream backgrounds with a willingness to learn will also be considered. Applications from Early Career Stage teachers are welcome, the school is able to provide a programme of support and development for ECTs. An up to date Team Teach qualification or a willingness to train for this will be essential. Applicants should be comfortable working as part of an experienced team of teaching and support staff and specialist professional colleagues.
These posts would suit professionals who are passionate about innovation in teaching and learning especially in the specialist sector. It will require resilient and highly effective teachers who are committed to providing stimulating and engaging learning activities and who are able to use visual support to structure learning and classroom organisation.
Please note, if you have recently applied for a Teaching Post at Seven Hills School and been unsuccessful, you need not apply again.
For more information about our school visit www.sevenhillslearning.co.uk
Visits to the school are warmly encouraged and may be arranged by telephone. Further information and application packs can be obtained by contacting
Tracy Mycroft on 0114 3802003
Email [email protected]
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