Assistant Principal - Teaching & Learning
Oakbank, Reading, Berkshire, RG7 1ERThis job expired on 9 December 2019 – see similar jobs
Job start date
20 April 2020
Closing date
9 December 2019 at 9am
Date listed
27 November 2019
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Full-time equivalent salary
- Lead Practitioners range 9 to Lead Practitioners range 14, £50,026 to £56,579
Assistant Principal - Teaching & Learning job summary
Oakbank is looking to appoint a qualified and talented educationalist to lead, drive, monitor and evaluate the quality of Teaching and Learning throughout the School from April 2020.
Core Purpose
• To provide strategic leadership of teaching and learning.
• To ensure that we have an exceptional climate for learning within Oakbank School, that is both supportive and reflective of our core values and school ethos.
• To ensure that we establish consistently high standards and expectations in regard to planning, delivery
• To provide on-going review and evaluation of pedagogical approaches that impact on student learning.
• To create and continuously develop a collective efficacy and togetherness with reference to the development of teaching and learning through a peer-to-peer philosophy.
• To line manage middle leaders in ensuring the highest standards and best possible experiences and outcomes for our students.
Strategic Duties
• To work with the leadership of the school to review, develop and implement the strategic direction of the academy to secure continuous improvement and excellence
• To provide the strategic leadership for teaching and learning throughout the school
• To provide support to staff on how to improve their impact in the classroom in order to best meet their student’s learning needs
• To support the AP (ethos) in ensuring that the climate for learning within the Academy is supportive and reflective of our values and ethos
• To work closely with members of the SLT and demonstrate the highest professional standards
• To set the ‘climate’ for teaching and learning within the Academy through developing the ethos, and through the communication of our values, standards and expectations to all stakeholders
• To coordinate the production, use and evaluation of support and guidance packages available for all students who are identified for additional intervention (in partnership with the AP (inclusion) and Middle Leaders)
• To implement a quality assurance framework and self-evaluation system that involves all stakeholders and leads to the synthesis of strategic priorities in relation to quality first teaching
Main Duties
• To lead all aspects in relation to subject SEFs, reviews and action plans
• To work collaboratively with our Middle Leaders and subject teachers in continuously ensuring the student’s learning needs are met
• To monitor, develop and line manage the quality and impact of teaching and learning throughout the school
• To regularly report accurate information in regard to student outcomes (in partnership with Deputy Principal)
• To develop and support effective collaboration between Middle Leaders
• To communicate school values and ethos clearly to all stakeholders, students, staff, parents and the community and ensure all are clear of our expectations of them
• To ensure that our ethos and values permeate through all areas across the academy
• To ensure that resources are managed and allocated effectively to maximise impact at all levels.
Specific Duties
• Work closely with the Deputy Principal to track student progress, monitor patterns and take appropriate action to combat underachievement and low aspiration
• To ensure students have a smooth transition between key stages. To develop and support strong partnerships and networking across phase and during transition to ensure effective transition of students into and across the academy
• Promote student participation in social, moral, spiritual, cultural, and recreational activities
• Coordinate the preparation and publishing of the school calendar in relation to subject reviews, extra-curricular trips and visiting speakers
• To lead and support in staff development and training across the academic year – with a focus on teaching and learning
• To participate in Staff Performance Management and appraisal under the Principal’s guidance and the school’s policies and procedures.
• To undertake the duties as requested by the Principal as a member of the Senior Leader Team.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.
About Oakbank
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 553 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Oakbank website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@oakbank.education
Oakbank school is a place where every student thrives and in which our values of integrity, collaboration and excellence shine through all that we do. Our students are at the heart of the school, and we are immensely proud of their achievements and of the great opportunities our school has to offer them. We are an ambitious and successful community, where all students are supported, valued, and provided with everything they need to thrive.
We are a truly caring and supportive school community in which every student is accepted and loved and where all students are encouraged to celebrate what makes them unique. We aim to provide the very best environment for success and our consistently high expectations drive Oakbank students to achieve personal excellence in all they do. We are incredibly proud of our wonderful school community.
We have made great strides in recent times to become a highly successful school and we will not rest in our ambition of being the best that we possibly can be.
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