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Key Staff
David Barden –
Vice
Principal
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have been a senior staff member at West Kirby Residential School and
Specialist SEN College for over fifteen years, originally I was
appointed as Deputy Headteacher, for the past six years I have been Vice
Principal. Prior to starting at this school I had held senior positions
in two other special schools and a large comprehensive school. My first
teaching post was in a mainstream Secondary school in Kent where I
taught for five years.
Since starting my work in the SEN sector I have ensured that my
professional qualifications have developed in line with my role. I
completed an Advanced Diploma – with ‘Assessment of Learning and
Behavioural Difficulties’ as key foci, I followed this by completing
a Masters Degree at Liverpool University, completing my dissertation
on ‘Art and the development of Language with Young People with SEN’.
More recently, in 2006, I completed the NPQH – National Professional
Qualification for Headteachers and a wide variety of shorter
relevant courses.
My key roles at school are wide ranging, including; co-ordination of
our status as a Specialist Schools and Academies Trust Specialist
College for Pupils with Behaviour, Emotional and Social
Difficulties. Involving; developing and supporting partnerships with
communities, colleges and schools locally, nationally and
internationally, management of the school’s School Evaluation Form
(SEF) and assessment systems, I am proud of my involvement in a
school which has, since the system’s inception, achieved an
extremely high CVA (Contextualised Value Added score) – In 2010 the
Y6 – Y11 was 1092.10 the highest on Merseyside and one of the
highest in the UK. I am also very involved in the Continuous
Professional Development of staff. I continue a teaching commitment
and am proud of the achievement of good GCSEs, AS and A levels in
the only subject I now teach – ‘Photography’.
I am proud of having started numerous aspects of school which are
now normal practice, including; School Council, Mini Play (Drama)
Day, ‘Themed Days’ and our School Magazine, and have also planned
and supported various major projects with pupils and through ‘bids’
which I have completed to various organisations.
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