Assistant Principal - Teaching and Learning
Ernulf Academy, St. Neots, PE19 2SHThis job expired on 6 October 2024
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
6 October 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
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- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £61,697.00 - £67,956.00 Annually (FTE) Leadership 11 - 15
Assistant Principal - Teaching and Learning job summary
Have you had a significant impact at middle leadership, leading initiatives and developing staff through CPD?
Do you want to be part of a leadership team where you will help make a lasting impact on our students, many of whom are disadvantaged, and rapidly accelerate their progress?
Ernulf Academy is looking for an experienced leader with a passion for improving the quality of teaching across the academy with a focus on staff development. Intellectual preparation sists at the heart of professional development together with fostering a culture of ‘home-grown’ talent to continue the academy’s journey to excellence.
This is an excellent opportunity for an existing or aspiring senior leader with a track record of whole-school impact. The position is a great match for someone who shares the Trust’s vision for educational excellence and has the focus to drive rapid, transformational improvement.
We are committed to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour and culture. We believe that schools must teach powerful knowledge, ’the best that has been thought and said’ and an ‘entitlement curriculum’ for all. We believe in explicit instruction and have been greatly influenced by Lemov’s ‘Teach Like A Champion’, Rosenshine and recent developments in cognitive science. We believe that the creation of a scholarly culture that is warm and strict, disciplined and joyful, where there is ‘purpose not power’, ensuring impeccable behaviour, where teachers can focus on teaching and pupils can focus on learning, underpins everything.
We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational and academic education for all our students, so that all them will learn, thrive and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. We want to ensure that all of our students have the option to be able to go to university or aspirational alternative.
At Astrea, our commitment is to inspire beyond measure. This core commitment drives everything that we do. Education is also about much more than just attainment. To deliver this, we focus on encouraging and nurturing our REACH values: Resilience, Empathy, Aspiration, Contribution and Happiness in all of our children and young people. We call these the Astrea Dispositions.
We value our staff highly, and treat workload very seriously. Our systems are high leverage, ensuring you can really focus on your core purpose – teaching, in a sustainable way, unhindered by bureaucracy or poor behaviour.
What we offer:
- Highly effective support and various progression opportunities
- A knowledge rich curriculum, built on ‘powerful knowledge’
- A traditional Teaching and Learning approach built around Rosenshine and Teach Like a Champion
- Collaborative planning with centralised, shared units of work and resources
- Excellent support from the Astrea Trust Central team
- Disruption-free learning and a ‘warm/strict’ behaviour system
- Centralised systems including detentions, homework
- No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing ‘no-stakes’ instructional coaching, helping colleagues to continuously develop
- Excellent ongoing CPD, career development and promotion opportunities across the Astrea Cambridgeshire region.
What we are looking for:
The successful candidate will be:
- An inspirational classroom practitioner, who has a background in Teach Like a Champion pedagogy or a similar evidence-based approach to delivering the highest quality lessons
- A highly effective and inspiring leader, who is able to motivate and encourage colleagues to the shared vision
- Aligned to our values and mission with a passion for Core Routines, Deliberate Practice and a Behaviour Curriculum
- Someone who is driven to raise the expectation and consistency of behaviour standards across the academy.
Interested in applying?
If this is something you’re interested in, looking for a new challenge, have a passion for education or maybe all of the above, take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more about the role to apply.
We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our Academy to fully appreciate our excellent learning environment.
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.
If you are joining us from another school, academy or trust we recognise your continuous service date with confirmation from your current employer. This can be discussed in more detail at interview.
Commitment to safeguarding
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.
About Ernulf Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 733 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Ernulf Academy website (opens in new tab)
Principal’s welcome – Ernulf Academy
Welcome to Ernulf Academy, an 11-16 secondary school in St.Neots located in North Cambridgeshire. The academy is part of Astrea Academy Trust, a highly successful multi-academy trust of primary and secondary academies in Cambridgeshire and South Yorkshire.
Ernulf Academy is a school fully committed to an inclusive, comprehensive curriculum for all, which is underpinned by our five core values: scholarship, curiosity, tenacity, responsibility and respect. These values are at the heart of our vision for the school and the important qualities and characteristics we want all pupils to develop. Our pupils are encouraged to develop confidence, independence and resilience. We strive for them to be ambitious and ‘be the best they can be’, whilst being considerate, tolerant and willing to contribute positively to the wider community.
Work hard
We firmly believe in a disruption free learning environment and as such we have established nine core routines which form the basis of our academic day. A knowledge-rich curriculum, built on ‘powerful knowledge,’ underpins our teaching and learning principles. We offer a traditional approach to teaching and learning following evidence-based research by Rosenshine and Teach Like A Champion (TLAC) which lead to inspiring and stimulating lessons. Our enrichment provision aims to take learning outside the classroom and we offer an extensive range of extra-curricular activities including sporting activities, residential visits and educational experiences.
Safeguarding is at the heart of what we do and we recognise the challenges that our pupils face. Therefore, we have a dedicated pastoral team with a Head of Year and Pastoral Co-ordinator for each year group and a ‘Wellbeing’ team including our school therapy dog.
Be kind
Ernulf Academy is a friendly and supportive school, which prides itself on treating everyone as individuals and having a ‘family’ atmosphere. We teach our pupils empathy and respect, and we have a zero tolerance to bullying. A scholarly approach is at our core but enabling our pupils to have a holistic education, preparing them for life in the 21st century and becoming global citizens is just as important.
Mark Neesam
Principal
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