Fielding is fully staffed with permanent, qualified teachers ready for the start of the new school year. Recruitment conditions remain challenging. However the school attracted a superb field of experienced teachers for our vacancies. 

 

Teacher leavers

At the end of this school year, Mrs Patel, Miss Mortland and Miss Armitage leave Fielding:

• Mrs Patel, Maths Leader, moves to work in a school closer to her home outside of London, following the birth of her child. Reena trained with us and has been a key part of the school's success over the last 7 years.
• Miss Mortland, class teacher, leaves to work in a school closer to her home. Maddie trained with us and has worked in the school for the last 2 years.
• Miss Armitage, ARP teacher, leaves to complete her Masters degree to further her career goals. Florence was one the first teachers appointed to work in the ARP.

We wish them all well in the next step of their career and life plans.

 

Teacher changes

• Mrs Tate returns from maternity leave at the end of June, ready for the new school year as class teacher and Assistant Head teacher.
• Mrs Watson, class teacher, continues with her maternity leave.
• Mrs Clough-Jones, ARP teacher, starts her maternity leave towards the end of the school year.
• Miss Calver and Miss Ellis move to work in the ARP for a year to further build their experience, breadth and career ambitions. 
• Miss Bedel, class teacher, becomes a permanent member of staff.

 

Promotions

• Mr Monks becomes Maths Leader.
• Miss Abed becomes Year Leader, covering Miss Calver's vacancy for a year.
• Mrs Renault and Miss Odogwu lead planned improvement work in oracy and reading - key priorities for the next school year, respectively.
• Mr Smith builds his experience and covers leadership of History across the school while Mrs Watson is on maternity leave. 

 

Congratulations to our new leaders and teachers who have changed roles or gained promotion. They were selected through a competitive process of very strong internal candidates.

 

Teacher joiners

Four teachers join us:

• Grace Cummings is an experienced teacher who has worked in state and independent schools in London.
• Charles Elliott Rey is a very experienced teacher joining us to work closer to his home. Mr Elliott Rey has already started work in year 4, covering Mrs Watson.
• Raphaela Gava is an experienced teacher who has worked in London schools. 
• Jay Veja joins us at an earlier phase of his career. Mr Veja with experience of two key-stages.

 

Teachers and classes

We think about lots of different things when allocating teachers to year groups and classes to teachers. All senior staff, including Mrs Chadwick (SENDCo) share their views. These factors include:

• some teachers staying in the same age group so that they share strong, first-hand subject knowledge about the curriculum;
• some teachers moving up with the age group so that they know precisely what pupils have and have not covered in the curriculum the year before;
• teachers, especially at the early part of their career, staying in the same age group for at least 2 years to consolidate and develop their experience;
• teachers moving between age groups to increase their breadth of subject knowledge and experience;
• giving each class a range of different teachers, which can include alternating between a less experienced teacher one year followed by a more experienced teacher the next year;
• matching the specific needs of each class to the professional knowledge and skills of each teacher;
• if there has been any change in teacher mid-year, doing everything we can to reduce the risk of turbulence the next year;
• considering additional responsibilities such as Assistant Head teacher, Year Leader, subject leader or Early Career Teacher where teachers are released to work away from their class.