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Assistant Head of Maths
Highcliffe School, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 4QDThis job expired on 23 April 2024
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
23 April 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
18 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Mathematics
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 - UPS3
Additional allowances
TLR 2.3 £7,847.00
What skills and experience we're looking for
- To be the deputy leader for the department, working closely with the Subject Leader and deputising where required.
- Securing high standards of teaching, learning and pupil progress, with a particular focus and responsibility for Key Stage Three.
- To provide a safe, nurturing environment that promotes happy confident learners possessing self-discipline, self-motivation and respect for others, who acknowledge their responsibilities toward each other and the wider community.
- To plan and implement an inclusive and innovative curriculum which ensures equality across genders and abilities.
- To ensure all subject team members are aware of the curriculum intent and how the intent is being implemented within the subject.
- To measure the impact teaching and learning in Mathematics through a regular and coordinated programme of Review, Reflect and Respond.
- To support and promote the vision and values of the School in and beyond the classroom.
- To support and promote the policies of the School, especially with regards to equality, learning and behaviour.
- To have responsibility for the members of a tutor group.
- To inspire subject members by personal example and hard work, for example through having high expectations of all students and their potential to be very successful in Mathematics.
KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:
Leadership
To assist the Subject Leader in the following responsibilities:
- To effectively manage the human resources at the Subject’s disposal.
- To create a vision, sense of purpose and pride in the Subject, rooted in collaborative working practices and a commitment to the highest professional standards by the whole team.
- To be responsible for continuously improving the quality of teaching and learning in the Subject by monitoring and reviewing standards through the Review, Reflect and Respond process, with the focus on a KS3 or KS4.
- To address any issues of underperformance by teaching staff, bringing about improvement in performance and improved examination performance.
- Ensure that UPS staff make significant and high-impact contributions to the daily life, organisation, curricular development, progress interventions and examination outcomes of the Subject.
- To be responsible for maintaining discipline in the Subject by ensuring staff make use of effective behaviour management strategies to a high standard, use school rewards and sanctions systems consistently and appropriately; and at times by supporting staff during lessons when appropriate.
- To play a role as a middle leader in the development of all aspects of the School, including its policies and their implementation.
- To develop and maintain effective methods of communication with the Headteacher, SLT, colleagues, students, parents, governors, external agencies and the wider community (including business and industry), etc.
- To identify and applaud areas of success for individual teachers and the Subject.
- To help create an effective team by promoting collective approaches to problem-solving and curricular/Subject development.
- To regularly chair and produce the agenda for effective Subject meetings with potentially with a KS3 or KS4 focus. To ensure minutes are made, kept secure and others informed as appropriate.
- To implement school assessment and target setting policies, and make effective use of data to monitor and evaluate the achievement and attainment of students in the subject. A portfolio of excellent work, moderated against assessment criteria, should be maintained for subject purposes and to contribute to school displays.
- To ensure attainment and progress is accurately and consistently assessed and tracked by teaching staff and that effective intervention activities including MyWorkshops are run within the Subject which improve student outcomes.
- To initiate/ maintain and encourage the provision of extra-curricular activities within the Subject for KS3 and 4
- To contribute to Mathematics timetable construction and the setting of Mathematics groups in KS3 or KS4
- Support the Subject Leader in organising cover work where staff absence occurs.
- Leading and coordinating the contribution of team members producing high quality resources and SOW and assessment for KS3 or KS4 teaching.
Mathematics Subject Development
To assist the Subject Leader in the following responsibilities
- Role model excellent teaching in Mathematics, where students develop procedural
fluency and conceptual understanding in tandem.
- Support the Subject Leader in the development of a clear coherent curriculum where the 5 big ideas in teaching for mastery are embedded.
- Produce periodic assessments with marks schemes, revision resources and diagnostics.
- Quality assure similar resources produced for KS4 and KS5 with the Subject Leader.
- Ensure Continuous Assessment statements are up to date and are completed effectively by teaching staff.
- Monitor progress data for students, tracking formal internal assessments.
- Analyse progress and attainment data to make data-driven changes to curriculum design, pupil interventions and set changes.
- Through the Review, Reflect and Respond process, mentor identified subject teachers to ensure excellent teaching and learning in all lessons.
- Support the Subject Leader in planning and delivering departmental professional development. For example, furthering Teaching for Mastery through: the Use of Variation; Intelligent Practice; Lesson Sequencing and, Questioning and Feedback.
- Create and sustain a positive department culture, where collaboration is embedded, and staff feel collectively supported and developed.
- Support the Subject Leader with Review, Reflect and Respond activities across all Key Stage
- s to ensure the development of the department is monitored and positive progress is sustained. For example, coordinating the triangulation of data collection with regards to marking and feedback across the department and identifying how to support and further progress this policy and linked strategies.
Liaison/Communication
To assist the Subject Leader in the following responsibilities:
- To act as the initial person for others to contact regarding all issues relating to the Subject at a Key Stage 3 or 4.
- To oversee and monitor liaison with other curriculum co-ordinators in order to develop integrated schemes of work, e.g. Mathematical Literacy, SEN, ICT and Citizenship.
- To inform staff about new developments and ideas related to the Subject and wider educational policy.
- To provide helpful and accurate responses to parent/carer enquiries.
- To assist in effective recruitment and marketing strategies e.g. Open Evenings, Press Releases, School Website, Facebook, Twitter etc.
- To ensure appropriate communication/consultation with students and parents, including the school’s web site and social media.
- To liaise with relevant agencies as appropriate, e.g. Maths Hubs, AMSP
What the school offers its staff
I am delighted you are considering applying for a post at Highcliffe School, part of HISP Multi Academy Trust. Please find alongside this letter information, which, I hope, provides an insight to our school and the opportunities that await the successful candidate.
Highcliffe is a remarkable school with a special atmosphere. We are very highly respected in our community, with whole generations of families coming here for over 50 years from Christchurch and the New Forest. Former students, current students and their parents frequently speak of their powerful emotional bonds to our school lasting a lifetime. Always popular, and usually over-subscribed, in the last two years our identity and success has attracted a rapidly growing number of admissions requests for Year 7. Although we have raised our PAN twice in three years, demand for places still exceeds availability. This is a result of our caring and aspirational ethos combined with our engaging curriculum and excellent extra-curricular opportunities, although our track record of exam success is surely another factor. Our students are lovely young people to work with who respond enthusiastically to good teaching and are keen to learn.
Former students go on to work in international finance, law, education, politics, engineering, medicine, science, and in the Paris fashion houses, or as great chefs, carers, artists, musicians, mechanics, gardeners and much more – but not before they have thrived at Highcliffe academically, creatively and socially. We have an excellent record of success placing students into the top universities in their chosen field. Every year for the last 10 years at least one of our Sixth Form students have, for example, gone on to study at either Oxford or Cambridge universities. We have successful programmes for students accessing careers in medicine, the law and engineering. We are an outwardly focused community with extensive school links in Germany, France, Spain and Japan including a unique exchange programme with a school in Hiroshima.
Our teaching staff are highly experienced, knowledgeable professionals who work together superbly. Our SEND, pastoral, clerical, financial, technical and site staff, who form a good team, are also extremely good at their jobs and committed to the school’s success. We are a friendly, welcoming and supportive environment in which to work or learn, located in a great part of the country. As part of the HISP Multi Academy Trust we offer our team extensive opportunities for professional development; direct collaborative working with Thornden School in Chandler’s Ford and more widely across the Trust region; and career progression routes associated with our development as a regional Hub for school improvement and professional development delivering NPQs, the local ECT programme, the Science Learning Partnership. We are a happy and upbeat school, characterised by warm and trusting relationships between staff and students; one big family. We recently completed a £1.8 million capital project improving heating and hot water, and in December 2022 successfully entered the School Rebuilding Programme to replace 18 classrooms with brand new buildings.
We welcome applicants who share our ethos, bring outstanding professional skills and personal qualities, and have an unshakeable drive to make a difference to young lives through education. Unfortunately, we will not be able to contact every applicant who applies and take this opportunity to thank you for considering our school.
Commitment to safeguarding
HISP MAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share in the commitment. This appointment is subject to an enhanced DBS check, social media check and positive references.
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About Highcliffe School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1513 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Highcliffe School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- aparsons@highcliffeschool.com
Highcliffe is a remarkable school with a special atmosphere. We are very highly respected in our community, with whole generations of families coming here for over 50 years from Christchurch and the New Forest. Former students, current students and their parents frequently speak of their powerful emotional bonds to our school lasting a lifetime. Always popular, and usually over-subscribed, in the last two years our identity and success has attracted a rapidly growing number of admissions requests for Year 7. Although we have raised our PAN twice in three years, demand for places still exceeds availability. This is a result of our caring and aspirational ethos combined with our engaging curriculum and excellent extra-curricular opportunities, although our track record of exam success is surely another factor. Our students are lovely young people to work with who respond enthusiastically to good teaching and are keen to learn.
Former students go on to work in international finance, law, education, politics, engineering, medicine, science, and in the Paris fashion houses, or as great chefs, carers, artists, musicians, mechanics, gardeners and much more – but not before they have thrived at Highcliffe academically, creatively and socially. We have an excellent record of success placing students into the top universities in their chosen field. Every year for the last 10 years at least one of our Sixth Form students have, for example, gone on to study at either Oxford or Cambridge universities. We have successful programmes for students accessing careers in medicine, the law and engineering. We are an outwardly focused community with extensive school links in Germany, France, Spain and Japan including a unique exchange programme with a school in Hiroshima.
Our teaching staff are highly experienced, knowledgeable professionals who work together superbly. Our SEND, pastoral, clerical, financial, technical and site staff, who form a good team, are also extremely good at their jobs and committed to the school’s success. We are a friendly, welcoming and supportive environment in which to work or learn, located in a great part of the country. As part of the HISP Multi Academy Trust we offer our team extensive opportunities for professional development; direct collaborative working with Thornden School in Chandler’s Ford and more widely across the Trust region; and career progression routes associated with our development as a regional Hub for school improvement and professional development delivering NPQs, the local ECT programme, the Science Learning Partnership. We are a happy and upbeat school, characterised by warm and trusting relationships between staff and students; one big family. We recently completed a £1.8 million capital project improving heating and hot water, and in December 2022 successfully entered the School Rebuilding Programme to replace 18 classrooms with brand new buildings.
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