St. John’s CofE (VA) Primary School
Spring Park Road
Shirley
Surrey
CR0 5EL
020 8654 2260

Inclusion Lead, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator (SENDCO)
Full or Part-time
Tenable from: ASAP
Pay range: MPS/UPS plus TLR 2b
We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our Senior Leadership Team as one of two Inclusion
Lead, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator. St. John’s is a dynamic and
successful two-form entry school with a positive ethos and strong family values; our children make
good progress. We are looking for a highly effective person who will be able to provide strategic
management for children with a range of additional needs throughout the school. We want to
appoint an excellent teacher with the right skills and personality to develop and oversee the
implementation of the school’s SEND strategy and policy, to be non-class based with the
responsibility for the co-ordination of inclusion throughout the school.
The successful candidate will be experienced in leading inclusion and will have a good theoretical
and practical knowledge and understanding of supporting children. Working closely with a
colleague, they will take responsibility for the effective management of the education and welfare
of SEND, LAC, EAL and PPG across the school. They will also support colleagues across the
school to cater for the wide-ranging needs of the children. Experienced teachers who are currently
training or looking to become a SENDCO are also invited to apply. The job description and grade
for this will depend on the applicant’s experience.’

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Mass and Ashing at 7.30pm

Please bring your palm crosses this Sunday so that they can be used for ashes

Would you like to run one? Starting on 25 February, St John’s will be holding a series of lunches every Saturday during Lent from 12-2pm in the Tamberlin Room hosted by volunteers to raise money for a charity of their choice.

You are all invited to come and enjoy the food and company. For more details click here …..

Bishop Christopher commends Bishop Martin and his family to your continued prayers. Please see the attached press release. 

Thinking about buying Easter eggs? Read what Andy Bebington of the Shirley Justice and Peace Group has to say about “Why to buy fair trade?” and getting your Easter eggs from “The Real Easter Egg Company“. Details are also at the back of church and orders can be placed up to 5th March.

We have learned from her son that Dorothy Newton, formerly a key member of St John’s congregation, died peacefully in early January 2023, in the nursing home in Worcestershire where she had been for three years. Her funeral is being held on 31st January in Stourbridge.

Dorothy was the wife of the late John Newton, a longstanding organist and choir master at St John’s. It is planned to inter Dorothy’s ashes with those of her husband, at St George’s, Beckenham, at a later date; where it is hoped to hold prayers beforehand, so that people who knew her locally will have the opportunity to attend.