Riverside Nurseries - Bursar

Riverside Nurseries - Bursar

Bursar Riverside Nursery Schools Candidate Pack

Contents

Principal’s Welcome

Educating Excellence

Locations

The Riverside Team

The Role

Person Specification

Application Process

I am delighted to welcome you to Riverside Nursery Schools, a family of five unique and beautiful nurseries set in the London Borough of Richmond. We provide children with a beautifully crafted environment in which highly qualified educators motivate children to learn and become independent. Via a bespoke and individualised education, delivered with nurturing, loving care, we encourage the growth of the whole child. This fosters independent thinking alongside the development of early years qualities and dispositions such as a child’s awareness of their environment, empathy for others, communication excellence and above all, self-confidence. As a group of nursery schools, we strive to instil within all our children the intellectual, emotional, and physical skills needed to become selfmotivated learners, flexible thinkers and creative problem solvers. At every opportunity, we support their natural and ever-increasing curiosity about the world in which they live. We provide love and support to our children and their families. We relish the opportunity to get to know and understand every child whilst watching them thrive in our carefully prepared, warm, loving environment. We look forward to seeing the children grow into successful, autonomous citizens of the world.

Aimee Kimbell, Principal

Riverside Nursery Schools have been educating children for over 45 years and have created a bespoke curriculum that draws inspiration from a range of established and time-proven pedagogies including Montessori, Reggio Emilia and Forest School. The education we provide is steered by our experience and expertise, combined with the most up-to-date knowledge of the latest scientific breakthroughs in both child development and neuro-development. Whilst incorporating the seven areas of learning in the Department for Education’s Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), the Riverside curriculum goes far beyond it, with a focus centred on developing the five Riverside Nursery Schools Dispositions in each and every child.

R esiliance

I magination

V eracity

E mpathy

R esponsibility

Getting up when we fall down, brushing ourselves off and trying again

Seeing magic in the world and conjuring our own unique interpretation

Learning and respecting the truth about ourselves, others and the world around us as we learn and grow

Sharing feelings and experiences to create a nurturing and

Developing autonomy and integrity of self and the abilities to work both independently and collaboratively

comforting learning environmentfor all

St Margarets Montessori

Ages: 2-5 years

Grosvenor House

Ages: 3 months - 5 years

Twickenham Green

Ages: 3 months - 5 years

Twickenham Park

Ages: 3 months - 5 years

Kew Montessori

Ages: 2-5 years

Aimee Kimbell Principal, Riverside Nursery Schools Aimee graduated with a BA Hons in Classical Civilisation from the University of Birmingham. She began her teaching career in Hong Kong where she taught children English up to GCSE level. In 2006 she began her Montessori Teaching Diploma and started her teaching placement at Kew Montessori in 2007 where she continued after graduating. In 2014, Aimee took on the post of Headteacher at Kew Montessori and subsequently also became Headteacher at St. Margaret’s Montessori in 2017. Both schools have their own individual character underpinned by a firm following of the Montessori philosophy directed by a talented, dedicated and passionate team. These two nurseries joined the other Duke’s nurseries to form a collection of nurseries now known as Riverside Nursery Schools.

Libby Nicholas Managing Director

Libby is responsible for the Dukes Education nurseries and day schools. Having graduated from the University of Bristol with a degree in English & Philosophy, Libby realised her true vocation when working with the Prince’s Trust. Libby completed her PGCE and was accepted on the National Fast Track Teaching Programme ranking as one of the ‘Top Ten Nationwide Fast Track Teachers’. Progressing quickly from teaching English to increasingly senior roles, Libby has held positions such as Head of Year, Deputy Head, Headmistress, Deputy Director of Education at the Girls’ Day School Trust, and Regional Director of Education for the South & West at the Academies Enterprise Trust. Prior to joining Dukes, Libby founded and was CEO of Astrea Academy Trust - a family of 27 schools across Yorkshire and Cambridge. Libby’s areas of professional expertise include the delivery of school improvement, strategic organisational change, curriculum design, and innovation and all aspects of teaching and learning – thinking, theory, and pedagogy.

Aatif Hassan Founder and Chairman

“ Dukes Education is a family of schools and educational services based in the UK. Our schools are distinctive in identity and style, yet united in offering outstanding teaching and learning, providing the strongest foundations for young people to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives. ”

Aatif founded Dukes Education in 2015 and leads our London day schools. He is also Chairman of Cavendish Education, a group of six schools for pupils with dyslexia and autism schools; and Deputy Chairman of Governors of St James Independent Schools (including Chairman of the Finance & Estates Committee and Chairman of St James Junior School). Aatif is also on the advisory board of EdEx UK and Woxsen School of Business.

Aatif has a first class degree in Mathematics and Economics and also had a British Army commission.

About the Role

Dukes Education is looking to appoint a full-time Bursar to manage and coordinate the finance and administrative elements of the family of five Riverside Nursery Schools set in the London Borough of Richmond.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Full management of all fee income including issuing fee invoices to parents, collect- ing and reconciling funds from childcare voucher and tax free childcare accounts, banking payments and credit control

• Purchase ledger management, including processing supplier bills, making payments, negotiating with suppliers, and keeping costs within budget

• Maintaining the accounting and pupil records (Xero and First Steps) for the nurseries (assisted by existing admin staff at 3 of the 5 nurseries)

• Responsibility for IT systems and Premises Management at all sites

• Responsibility for payroll (using group Payroll Bureau), staff contracts and general HR matters

• Production of accurate and timely Management Accounts (supported by Divisional FD) and other business >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18

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