Head of Learning Development

**Salary**:
Salary is dependent on qualifications and experience

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
End of August 2025

3 February 2025

**Job overview**:
**The School**

Established in 1894, Oporto British School is the longest-established British School in mainland Europe. It follows the National Curriculum at KS3, leading to Cambridge IGCSE (Coordinated Science and Single Sciences), and then to the IB Diploma Programme. Our pupils have achieved outstanding IB Diploma results in recent years. The school, while being conscious of its British foundation and traditions, is very much an international school of the 21st century. The school has undergone a very successful ISI inspection and is COBIS and CIS accredited. Oporto British School is open and friendly. Excellent relationships are evident throughout its close knit, supportive community, which is often described as being ‘like one big family’. Our enrolment is just over 570 students.

**The Position**

This is an important leadership post, for a fully qualified SENCo. It requires excellent organisational and administrative skills as well as a meticulous attention to detail. We are looking for a fully qualified person with drive, determination and passion to raise academic standards and support staff in their teaching, and students with their learning.

The Head of LD, with the support of the Headmaster/Heads of Section, takes responsibility for the day-to-day operation of provision made by the school for pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities/EAL/AG&T and provides professional guidance in these areas in order to secure high quality teaching and the effective use of resources and strategies to bring about improved standards of achievement for students.

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**About**Oporto British School**:
**Oporto British School**
- Rua da Cerca, 326/350
- Porto
- 4150-201
- Portugal

+351 261 66660

Oporto British School is a mixed, non-selective, non-denominational independent, international, bi-lingual, all-through school in Portugal, serving students from the age of 3-18. The all-through school is situated in Porto.

Oporto British School opened in 1894 as an all-boys school. In 1902, non-British boys were accepted, while girls joined from 1914. It holds title as the oldest British school in Continental Europe, and welcomes pupils from over 20 nationalities each year. It follows the English National Curriculum, with students from the age of 6 being introduced to the Cambridge Primary Curriculum, and later Cambridge Secondary Curriculum. Pupils are taught both English and Portuguese, setting them up for extended opportunities across the world.

**Values and vision**

Oporto British School works to provide the best possible education for all students and focuses on supporting and guiding them to acquire the skills, knowledge and attitudes to achieve their personal best across the curriculum and succeed throughout life. The all-through school teaches students to work independently and to take responsibility for their actions, leaving education as kind, responsible, active citizens who will go on to contribute positively to society. Community is at the heart of the school, where strong relationships between parents, staff and students are formed to provide a family like atmosphere where learners feel supported and cared for. A wide range of extra-curricular activities are offered to pupils across the year groups so that they can expand their opportunities outside the classroom, build in confidence and gain new skills and interests. These range from sports and drama clubs to the Duke of Edinburgh Award. Oporto British School works in partnership with the British Council and the University of Cambridge International Examinations.