Assistant Headteacher - Teaching and Learning
The Kings of Wessex Academy, Cheddar, Somerset, BS27 3AQThis job expired on 1 February 2023 – see similar jobs
Job start date
17 April 2023
Closing date
1 February 2023 at 9am
Date listed
20 January 2023
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
- Deputy headteacher
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: A full-time leadership position
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership L12 - 16 (£58104 - £64225)
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Assistant Headteacher for Teaching and Learning is a significant senior leadership position. You will have excellent leadership qualities, creativity and energy and will work alongside the existing senior leadership team and Wessex School Improvement Team to make continued, sustainable improvements.
The core purpose of the role is to maximise the provision of strong leadership for raising standards of Teaching and Learning in the Academy.
- Promoting the highest standards of Teaching and Learning in order to ensure the very best academic achievements in the Academy, and to create a positive atmosphere conducive to learning
- Developing, leading, and managing effective strategies to further improve standards of Teaching and Learning
- Coordinating Upper and Middle School liaison to support the progression of learning between all key stages
- Lead the professional development of student facing staff and middle leaders
- Ensuring robust induction systems are in place to support ECTs, ITT and new teaching staff
- Line manage designated curriculum and pastoral areas
- To carry out professional duties in accordance with the Academy Teachers’ Pay and Conditions document
- You will be responsible for the strategic leadership of teaching and learning to ensure continued improvement, and for interpreting and articulating its vision.
- Contribute to the strategic development and planning of whole school improvement.
- As a member of the Senior Leadership Team you will be responsible for the strategic development of Teaching and Learning across the whole school (Key Stage 3, 4 and 5), in conjunction with the Wessex Learning Trust policy, ensuring all teaching staff deliver stimulating and inspiring education.
What the school offers its staff
Kings Academy is a fabulous school. We have great students and fabulous staff. We are a happy school that likes to laugh but also one that is serious about delivering for our young people. Our motto is ‘Believe and Succeed’. We must believe in ourselves, have self-esteem, have a can-do culture and be solution-driven. This leads to our success, for our students and our staff.
The Academy has been on a journey and the following changes have been made:
- Introduction of extended tutor time on Fridays
- Introduction of focus days to extend the wider curriculum opportunities
- Re-shaping of business and administrative roles
- Creation of business and administrative support teams
- Development of a faculty system for subjects
- Embedding the house system as the structure for the pastoral system
- Creation of a welfare and intervention team
- Creation of a staff welfare group
- Re-designing student feedback systems
- Introducing new, bespoke behaviour systems
- Promote leadership and empowerment for all staff
What the Academy now needs to do is to embed these changes, to focus on ‘World Class Basics’ and keep ‘Believing and Succeeding’.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Wessex Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding young people and promoting the welfare of children, and all staff appointed will undergo online checks and be required to undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.
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About The Kings of Wessex Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 13 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1033 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 13 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Kings of Wessex Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jobs@kowessex.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01934 742608
Kings is a high achieving 13-18 years school. Exam results are consistently high year-on-year, with students making outstanding progress from Key Stage 2 to 4, and after the Sixth Form many students go on to top universities.
Accolades and league tables are important, but there is more to Kings than percentages and statistics.
We believe in every child, and have high expectations for them regardless of their background. We take pride in excellent attendance and behaviour, a positive attitude, and smart uniform. We want every child who attends Kings to be happy in their learning and believe that they can succeed.
Our dedicated and committed staff are here to guide and support students on a daily basis so that they feel loved, cared for and supported.
Kings is very much a community school within the heart of the beautiful Cheddar Valley here in Somerset, and is an Upper School of the family of soon to be 16 First and Middle Schools.
We are part of the Wessex Learning Trust that strives to offer a world class, 21st century education for all young people between the ages of 2 and 18, by providing outstanding learning opportunities and creating centres of educational excellence that meet the needs of all children.
We are passionate that our work in the classroom inspires a love of learning, enquiry and creativity as we strive to develop our young people to prepare them for life and their next steps in our globally competitive world.
As an Upper School, exams are obviously a significant part of our work and goals and, therefore, every lesson and every piece of homework really counts. We encourage students to do their best and take pride in their subjects so that ultimately in the final exams they will realise their true potential.
Students who join Kings at age 13 in Year 9 follow a continuous curriculum, meeting the full suite of subjects, developing their study skills, before embarking fully upon their Key Stage 4 courses for their GCSEs. For the final year of Year 11 each student is assigned a staff Mentor with whom they meet to review progress and extra support and to feel really boosted. Students are also encouraged to attend golden time extra sessions during the year and, as the exam season gets closer, a dedicated programme of revision sessions in the Easter holidays.
Arranging a visit to The Kings of Wessex Academy
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