SENCO - Highworth Combined School and Nursery
Buckinghamshire Council
- Highworth, Wiltshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Top 3% of schools nationally for progress from KS1 to KS2 in Writing and Maths
- We love and use: Rosenshine's Principles; Why Don't Student's Like School? TLaC; StepLab; Instructional Coaching; a fully resourced knowledge based curriculum
- Children who are curious, respectful and well behaved. Ofsted said: …behaviour is impeccable…
- Kind, knowledgeable colleagues
- Supportive parents and governors
- Consideration of work life balance in everything that we do
- Once a term assessment and data drop
- No marking; no homework; no unnecessary meetings
- 2 school rules: Be Kind; Work Hard
- Additionally Resourced Provision for children who are deaf
- Read what Ofsted said about school in February 2024:
- Come and work within our inclusion team of 4 specialist teachers focused on delivering the best outcomes for children who find learning more difficult
- Report to our supportive Deputy Head Teacher for Inclusion
- On line standardised interventions
- 'Provision Map' tool (from TES) to reduce administrative burden
- No teaching commitment
- QTS
- NASENCO or NPQ for SENCOs
- Have a successful track record of teaching across the whole curriculum and be able to evidence good progress and achievement of all pupils, but especially those who have SEN
- Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with a range of strategies to support learning for a variety of SEN needs
- Experience of building positive links with parents
- Strong commitment to the principles of equality, inclusion, and diversity
- All unspent cautions and convictions cautions
- All adult cautions and spent convictions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). For further information on filtering please refer to