Welcome to our school, where we strive to make every day a happy memory for everyone in our community.

‘Our Vision’

“We endeavour to provide a caring and aspirational environment where all members of the school community are cared about, valued and respected, where every individual can be inspired to enjoy learning for life”

At the heart of our vision we hold a set of shared values which we seek to promote across our school and to foster in every individual through our teaching consideration of spiritual, moral, social and cultural values.

We seek to promote:

 Respect in the creation of a community that respects the views and opinions of others as well as our own. This is founded in developing empathy in R Time and our Social and Emotional Literacy planning. We are recognised as an enhanced Healthy School for emotional wellbeing, and we are an accredited Route to resilience school.

We also seek to promote growth in self-esteem in enabling children to develop independence in becoming problem solvers and negotiators. We aim to promote this in the application of skills and knowledge across the curriculum and in thematic learning.

Rooted in these values we seek to develop learner’s resilience and perseverance through challenging children and developing growth mindsets, recognising that we learn by reflection and specifically celebrating achievement and considering next steps in our commitment to assessment for learning strategies.  This fosters a community of risk- takers who can develop the confidence to approach learning with curiosity and creativity.

‘Our Aims’

• To create a stimulating and fun learning environment.
• To work in partnership with children, parents and the wider community.
• To provide a broad and balanced curriculum that challenges children to reach their full potential.
• To provide a happy, friendly, discrimination and bully-free environment for our children and encourage them to respect others and take responsibility for their actions.
• To provide equal opportunities for children to contribute to the school community and to engage positively with the outside world.
• To educate and encourage children to make healthy lifestyle choices.
• To prepare and motivate our children to be life-long learners and become active members of their community.

We are committed to providing a safe and inspirational environment for children to enjoy learning and enable them to achieve their best, irrespective of ability or circumstances. We encourage them to be curious about the world we live in within a creative and nurturing environment whilst offering real life contexts in which to apply their learning.

All individuals, irrespective of age or role, in our community have personal learning journeys and we aim to develop a community of independent and collaborative reflective learners.  We are committed to promoting children’s self- esteem and confidence to ensure they believe in themselves and fulfil their ambitions.

But most of all…we enjoy our learning!

Discovery Schools Academy Trust is dedicated to improving learning and teaching by creating a culture that promotes excellence. The needs of all children are placed at the heart of all decision making regardless of the school they attend. Teaching and learning excellence is shared through learning networks, sharing of ideas and materials as well as leading practitioners between schools. Discovery has developed staff development, talent management and succession planning at the heart of achieving outstanding organisations.

WHAT WE OFFER:

• The opportunity of working within a supportive, friendly environment in this well run and respected school
• Amazing children to work with every single day!
• CPD development through attendance at DSAT networks, EPIC Speech and Language Team and EPIC Psychology support and wider external partnership working
• The opportunity to be part of developing a creative curriculum that builds on the best research in cognitive science and curriculum design
• The opportunity for career progressions within the school and through wider opportunities within the Discovery Trust
• Pension Scheme
• Employee benefits such as reduced gym memberships and retail discounts
• Car Parking

Discovery is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will also carry out an online search about you for information that is publicly available online. This will include social media accounts you may hold. This will only be carried out on shortlisted candidates and before interview. This processing of data will be conducted under the legal basis of Article 6(e) public task in line with the guidance laid out in para 221 of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2022. Any data collected during this search will be retained in line with our retention schedule which is available on request.

We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion