Caroline Nottage

Head of Year, Safeguarding Officer, and Teacher

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Rainham, Havering, Greater LondonMember since 29 May 2024

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About

I am a secondary school teacher working in east London. I have been teaching for twenty years, and I am passionate about providing outstanding education, exceptional Pastoral care, and extraordinary personal development opportunities for young people.

I teach Citizenship to KS3, GCSE Citizenship at KS4, and Personal Development to KS4. I am responsible for designing, implementing, and assessing the impact of both the Citizenship and Personal Development curricula. I have experience of teaching Drama up to GCSE level, PSHE (KS3 and KS4), English at KS3, and Humanities subjects at KS3.

I have developed an effective, accessible and inspiring curriculum for Nurture pupils, focused on explaining real life topics to ensure the pupils feel confident to take their place in the world.

I am a Head of Year, and have been a champion of Pastoral care for secondary pupils since I secured promotion to Assistant Head of Year in my NQT year. I have progressed to Assistant Key Stage Leader and then Key Stage Leader for KS4, overseeing both my own Year Group and line managing the other Head of Year in my Key Stage. I have line managed Tutors from a range of specialisms, and I am a PGCE Subject Mentor for Citizenship and PSHE.

In my day-to-day role I teach, I support pupils and their families, I liaise with all stakeholders and external agencies with integrity, care, and professionalism. I lead on projects to celebrate achievements for our pupils and ensure the safeguarding of all our pupils is paramount and robust. I strategically implement programmes to improve pupil outcomes both in terms of their academic attainment but also their personal development, so they have the best chance to achieve their full potential.

I believe all pupils deserve a safe, welcoming, and aspirational school, led by inspirational, caring and dedicated adults.

Experience

Royal Docks Academy

2004 - present

Head of Year

Monitoring, supporting, and intervening with all pastoral aspects of pupils in my Year Group
Using data to monitor progress and plan intervention programmes to raise attainment and ensure further success
Leading a team of Tutors and collaborating with key staff, including DSL, EWO and SENDCO
Providing care and strategies for pupils with barriers to learning, analysing the impact and outcomes for pupils
Providing support and practical strategies for pupils with attendance or punctuality concerns
Monitoring behaviour and planning interventions to improve pupil outcomes; liaising with staff and families regarding support, sanctions, and implementing programmes to improve behaviour choices
Implementing and monitoring the impact of reward-based interventions for pupils
Developing and implementing a character education programme based on key traits we expect from our pupils
Chairing meetings including TAF, post-suspension, and permanent exclusion meetings; providing accurate and solution-focused reports to SLT, governors and external agencies
Organising and leading the Year Councils, the School Council, and Student Leadership Team (Head/Deputy Head pupils) including the nominations, the pupils' campaigns, and voting
Leading assemblies and achievement celebrations, and organising trips and education visits

Safeguarding Officer

Ensuring the welfare and well-being of pupils is of paramount importance through monitoring the referrals made by staff via the dashboard
Conducting pupil voice meetings
Implementing interventions
Meeting with pupils, parents and external agencies to support pupils
Updating the dashboard and monitoring pupil outcomes
Referring pupils to services, such as counselling, mentoring, tutoring, etc., and providing key information to external agencies

Teacher

Teaching Year 7 to 11
Designing, implementing, and analysing the impact of the curriculum for KS3 Citizenship, GCSE Citizenship, and KS4 Personal Development
Designing, implementing, and analysing the impact of the curriculum for KS3 Citizenship Nurture and KS4 Personal Development Nurture
Quality assurance of lessons taught by non-specialists
Adapting the curriculum and resources to be reactive to world events and the needs of the pupils/context of the school
Developing all assessment and mark scheme resources and monitoring, analysing, and reporting on progress
Liaising with the Head of Faculty to share outstanding practice, to implement successful strategies for at risk of underachieving pupils, and post-examination analysis
Teaching Geography to KS3 pupils; as a non-specialist collaborating with colleagues to ensure quality first-time teaching, monitoring progress, adapting the resources, and providing feedback to improve pupil outcomes
Taught Drama to KS3 and KS4 (GCSE) pupils; collaborating to design the KS3 curriculum, structuring and implementing the GCSE for KS4 pupils, organising educational visits to the theatre and producing and directing whole school shows, including Little Shop of Horrors, Les Misérables, and Matilda

Subject Mentor for PGCE student teachers

Overseeing the progression and development of PGCE student teachers training to teach Citizenship and PSHE
Assessing PGCE students teachers against the Teachers' Standards and producing reports on the effectiveness of the student teachers
Delivering CPD and professional development sessions to non-specialist PGCE student teachers on Pastoral Leadership and teaching Citizenship and PSHE

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