A Supportive Learning Community
Milton Road is pleased to welcome new colleagues to our crew. We are very proud of our vision, values, curriculum and ethos, we value our colleagues and recognise that the educational practitioners, and essential support staff in our school community are one of our most important assets. We want all our colleagues to feel happy, healthy, supported and challenged to be the best that they can be. As a crew we work hard every day to ensure that our young citizens are at the heart of everything that we do and they have a positive and rewarding day.
Fundamental to this aim is ensuring that our colleagues receive all the necessary support and ongoing professional development. We aim to create the optimal balance where colleagues feel psychologically safe and able to bring their expertise, knowledge, ideas, artistry, solutions and creativity to their work (individual autonomy), but at the same time feel secure in the policies, procedures, systems, routines and high expectations that surround their role within the school. (professional alignment)
A Dialogic Learning Community
Milton Road is a Learning Community, we reflect on our work and iterate in the spirit of Kaizen - good and continuous improvement. Collectively we look for solutions and share our expertise. Through dialogue we identify optimal approaches to teaching, learning and assessment. Our practice is relational and research informed. Cognitive science and educational neuro-science informs our practice as does scientific research e.g. Education Endowment Fund.
Colleague Welfare and Well Being
Sadly many teachers, assistant teachers and other essential staff leave our profession due to the demands, stresses and workload of the education system. Many leave to secure alternative employment within the first five years after completing training. This attrition is a National and local concern. Teachers are the profession that create all others; society and individual schools need to do all we can to look after them and get the balance right between their professional responsibilities and their rights to a happy, rewarding work/leisure balance.
Culture and ethos along with other factors are key to creating the optimal rewarding environment for staff to work, learn and feel valued. We are very fortunate that the overwhelming majority of parents in our community are supportive, kind and appreciative of the work our colleagues do. However, in the unlikely event that anyone is disrespectful, impolite or discourteous, this will not be tolerated and a resolution will be sought immediately.
The school has created a Well-being Charter listing a number of elements that are important in our school.
This can be seen below.
Onboarding and Induction
We want everyone joining our school to experience a positive welcome, and feel a good sense of belonging and inclusion from as early as possible as part of their induction. On joining the school you will learn who your suppoprtive line manager is and a Buddy willl be appointed to help you navigate the first few days, weeks and months of working in our CREW.
You will also receive a copy of our Induction Checklist that will include key aspects to support you in your profession journey with us at Milton Road. Our school aim is "We want our children to be happy and helahty today, fulfilled in the future and able to make their world an even better place." This ambiiton applies equally to the adult members of our CREW. We want our colleagues to feel happy and healthy today, fulfiilled in the future and able to make thier world an even better place.
Should you ever have any challenges or difficulties when you join our CREW, please bring it the immediate attention of your line manager or to the Headteacher.
Safeguarding and Child Protection
The safety of our pupils is paramount. To ensure that all opur staff are able to perform their tasks to the highest ethical, moral and technical standards, there is a wide range of reading that staff must complete, before they are able to start working in our school.
On appointment, you will be sent a list of policies including Keeping Children Safe in Education, the school Code of Conduct and Helaht and Safety Policy. Colleagues will be required to sign that these have been read and colleagues are also required to complete online or inperson Safeguarding Training.