parkside school
West Yorkshire
Welcome to Parkside School where we are proud of our track record of enabling
young people to achieve success and we are proud of being a fully inclusive
school supporting students with a range of special educational needs. Parkside
School is based in the village of Cullingworth on the edge of Bradford where we
are a part of the local community. It is therefore important that we impact
visibly and substantively on that community helping every member of our school,
both students and staff, become the best that they can be. Excellent
partnerships for learning are key to our success. Our students work hard, behave
with consideration and show respect for others. We offer an exciting curriculum,
personalised to meet the needs of individual students and we augment this with
an ever-growing range of extra curriculum activities and opportunities. In
addition, our Aspire-2B programme is a nationally acclaimed programme (National
runners up and outstanding school of the North of England) that develops our
students to become global citizens ready to embrace the 21st century. The Leeds
City Region is a city region in the North of England comprising Bradford,
Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield. The Leeds City Region is vibrant,
exciting and diverse with a rich history that cuts across industry, commerce,
culture and style. We not only need to prepare young people for working in the
capital of the north and its surrounding area but in industries that are only
just developing and in roles that currently do not exist. Research in the
Journal of Education suggests that better informed teenagers are likely to make
more advantageous careers choices and this in turn can be linked to higher
earnings in adult life and that is why excellent preparation for the future is
part of our mission statement. I have been a science teacher for over 20 years
and a senior leader for more than 15 years, working in multicultural and diverse
schools across both Leeds and Bradford. As headteacher I have an absolute
passion and commitment to inclusive education as a way of improving the life
chances of young people and their families. I believe that this is done through
delivering the highest quality teaching and learning, whilst developing the
whole young person in terms of their character, skills and ability to show
resilience to the ever changing and challenging world around them. Excellent
personal development in central to this.
