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Dear Candidate
Thank you for your interest in this post. The Hawthorns School opened its doors in January 2023 for children with autism. We are now in our beautiful purpose-built school in the heart of Chelmsford and are extending our provision for KS3 and 4 pupils. Our pupils are showing us just what they can achieve and surprise us everyday with their development and progress. Do you have an interest in autism and need a fresh challenge? What can you bring our pupils and our team of brilliant people? Carry on reading!
We have already established a capable, therapeutic and reflective professional team who prioritise the needs of the pupils through an evolving curriculum with the development of social communication at its core. We need to extend our range of high quality and imaginative teachers for KS3 and KS4 who can lead a subject specialism throughout the school and educate pupils to take accreditation at a range of levels. We are particularly interested in those with experience in any of the below:
1.Information Technology or Design Technology or Science
2.Maybe Maths or English
3.Another alternative area of expertise and subject knowledge that you can bring us
Please do get in touch and talk to us. Most important to us are: e, excellent subject knowledge and teaching, flexibility and creativity, committed professional adults who are willing to constantly evolve, learn new skills and acquire new knowledge. Candidates will take class responsibility which means being adaptable, sharing our ethos of kindness, curiosity, integrity and participation.
·Are you someone who embraces a challenge, has a sense of humour and can laugh at the daily absurdities that we face in a school facing new demands?
In return you will:
·Be part of SEAX Trust which puts pupils at the heart of everything, takes staff wellbeing seriously and provides layers of support and networking at all professional levels.
·Get excellent support and guidance in all areas from a committed and professional leadership team
·Be part of a team of supportive and caring people throughout the school who all share the same ethos, will gather round you and support you in your new role
·Receive thorough and purposeful CPD and be supported to share your expertise with the team
·Be part of our exciting growth and development and have an influence in shaping our future
We need teachers with experience of SEND and autism who are adaptable, imaginative and ambitious for all pupils and who want to extend their already existing range of skills and knowledge.
The Hawthorns is one of a community of Special Schools, supported by the well-established and highly regarded SEAX Trust. The Trust respects and trusts each school to evolve its unique identity. Come and be part of it. Read the next page for what some of the team say about working here.
Best wishes
Diane Rigg
Headteacher, The Hawthorns School
Information about the School
The Hawthorns School opened its doors in January 2023 for children with autism. We are now in our beautiful purpose-built school in the heart of Chelmsford and are extending our provision for KS3 and KS4 pupils.
The provision at the school caters for pupils who have a diagnosis of autism and will offer a full-time education with a focus on social communication, emotional regulation and relationship-building while, at the same time, offering a broad and balanced range of curriculum subjects, including literacy and numeracy.
Pupils will be aged 7-16 and will have an EHCP. There will be ten residential places available for pupils from Monday to Thursday each school week. These will be managed by the school and will enhance the day curriculum offer.
We have established a school which embodies the ethos, vision and values of the SEAX Trust and the other schools in the Trust (Thriftwood School & College, Langham Oaks School, Grove House School and Kingswode Hoe School).
The Hawthorns’ mission:
Our mission is to provide a personalised and imaginative curriculum designed to develop the skills, knowledge and understanding to build the basis for a purposeful and fulfilling adult life for young people with autism. Through outstanding teaching and secure relationships, pupils will gain the confidence to communicate effectively, acquire appropriate accreditation for next steps forward, learn core skills for life, develop healthy relationships, self-advocate,
contribute to their community and keep themselves safe.