Assistant Principal

Colne Primet Academy, Colne, Lancashire, BB8 8JF

36 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Easter 2025

• Closing date

  27 January 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  18 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time (Can be done as a job share)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: L10-14

What skills and experience we're looking for

The purpose of this role is to plan and implement strategies to support the learning cultureacross the academy. In particular, the role will focus on developing students’ positiveattitudes to learning, ensuring that the correct support and routines are in place to ensureall students succeed and have the highest aspirations. In this key role, you will ensure ourstudents are Proud to be Primet and show the Primet values at all times. Through this, therole also leads on raising aspirations and widening opportunities for all students.

Reporting to the Senior Deputy Principal

Role Specific Responsibilities:

• Lead the strategic overview of our positive student learning culture, ensuring consistency of our routines and systems so students are ready to learn, and demonstrate a positive Attitude to Learning.
• Championing inclusion across the academy, celebrating our diverse school community,and ensuring all key sub-groups can succeed; working with other Senior Leaders in aligning the support and interventions from pastoral, SEND and curriculum.
• Leading on raising the aspirations and opportunities for success of all students, within and beyond the classroom.
• Contribute to school self-evaluation, leading on the monitoring and evaluation of the Pupil Premium Strategy; ensuring its objectives are reflected in the Academy Development and Improvement Plan (ADIP).
• Lead and coordinate student leadership and student voice opportunities, enabling students to develop and demonstrate leadership skills and have input and ownership of their academy.

What the school offers its staff

Now is a really exciting time to be joining Colne Primet Academy as we go through aperiod of rapid expansion, both in terms of staff and student numbers and with extensivenew building and refurbishment work due to be completed in September 2024.

We currently have 875 students on roll from a diverse range of backgrounds, and thestudents numbers continue to grow up to our full capacity of 1050 over the next fewyears. Throughout the school, we have students who speak 23 different languages.Working with such a diverse community brings lots of opportunities for students to learnmore about each other and themselves.

By joining the Primet family you will become part of a supportive and ambitious team.

The core drive of being part of the Primet staff team is about wanting the best for ourstudents, and to help them overcome any barriers to their success. Our aim here atColne Primet Academy is to give each and every child the very best educational start inlife. At all times, we guide, support and inspire.

We collaborate with our colleagues at West Craven High School as well as the threeprimary academies in our Trust family and have the support of the Pendle Education

Trust core team for functions such as Finance, Facilities, Human Resources, Health andSafety, IT, Marketing and Governance.

Commitment to safeguarding

https://pendleeducationtrust.co.uk/safeguarding-and-child-protection/587.html

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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About Colne Primet Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 864 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Colne Primet Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: hr@pendleeducationtrust.co.uk
• Phone number: 01282863970
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/colne-primet-academy (opens in new tab)

Colne Primet Academy became part of the Pendle Education Trust family in 2013 and has experienced transformational change across all areas since then. Former Principal Lynne Blomley has now moved into an Executive Principal for Secondary Education role with the Trust, and the Academy is led by Julia Pilkington.

The school was named Secondary School of the Year at the 2021 East Lancashire Education Awards.

Arranging a visit to Colne Primet Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@pendleeducationtrust.co.uk.

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