Associate Assistant Principal - Director of Mathematics
Cottenham Village College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB24 8UA7 days remaining to apply
Closing date
19 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £60,346.00 - £66,588.00 Annually (FTE)
Associate Assistant Principal - Director of Mathematics job summary
Do you want to be part of a leadership team where you will help make a lasting impact on our students and rapidly accelerate their progress? Do you want to work in a school where you are free to teach, with impeccable student behaviour and unhindered by bureaucracy?
Astrea Academy Trust is looking for a candidate who is ready to take their next step in leadership to become an Associate Assistant Principal at Cottenham Village College. 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 improvement at a pace, building on the school’s strong academic foundations. The school ad trust are committed to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour, and culture. Cottenham Village College is a friendly and successful 11-16 school with around 880 pupils, which is committed to securing high outcomes for all students. We are looking to expand the leadership team with dedicated professionals who excel in their field, as part of our mission to instil excellence across the school. We are values-driven, and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive, and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or aspirational alternative. We are not going to reduce expectations because of a child’s background or home life, or because they are new to English or have a special education need. In fact, the opposite is true. It is our job to redouble our efforts to help children overcome these barriers so that they can flourish. 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 Access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme Access to our Employee Assistance Programme Free on-site parking What we are looking for: The successful candidate will be: A highly effective and inspiring teacher, who can motivate and encourage colleagues to the shared vision Aligned to our values and mission with a commitment to achieving excellence in all areas of school life An accomplished classroom teacher, who can model effective pedagogical approaches and coach and develop others. 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. We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our school to fully appreciate the setting and meet members of the leadership team. Either during a school day or after-hours. Please do not hesitate to get in touch. 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 details at interview. This post is advertised for an Easter or September start. We are looking for the right person to join the team. All queries should be directed via email to headspa@astreacottenham.org
Commitment to safeguarding
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and staff. Every child should feel safe and should be protected from any form of child abuse. We have robust policies and procedures that support our commitment to Safeguarding, this includes our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. The in-house Safeguarding teams at each Academy work in partnership with families and safeguarding partners to ensure the safety of children is paramount. We are committed to ensuring that all staff access regular, contextual safeguarding training to meet the needs of the local community.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Cottenham Village College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 877 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Cottenham Village College website
Welcome to Cottenham Village College, part of the Astrea Academy Trust, a highly-successful 11-16 mixed academy situated close to the beautiful city of Cambridge; here you will find hard-working, well-behaved students and friendly, dedicated staff who are committed to a fully inclusive, comprehensive education.
The college was established in 1963, one of several village colleges in the region that were the inspiration of educational pioneer Henry Morris, who believed that the school should be at the heart of its community and that education should be a lifelong process. This vision of a school that serves and involves its whole community, that fosters high aspirations and inspires a love of learning is as central to our ethos today as it was when it opened.
Through a highly-ambitious curriculum at CVC, we aim to foster students’ curiosity, unlock their potential and raise their aspirations, as well as ensure that students achieve high levels of attainment that will open doors for their future. A stimulating and broad curriculum also places students in a strong position to question and debate the world around them, making them intellectually resilient and prepares them for citizenship in a democratic society. We believe this is a right of all students and one which is liberating and empowering.
We are equally proud of the wider curricular provision at CVC, both in formal lessons and outside the classroom. Our extensive range of extra-curricular activities, including sports, music, the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award programme and residential trips, help to give all students a fully-rounded education and creates opportunity for their personal, as well as their academic, growth.
Cottenham Village College is a friendly, positive and exciting place to work and to learn and we take great pride in the high standards our students consistently achieve. We have very high expectations of all members of the College community and provide an inclusive, friendly and supportive environment in which everyone can thrive and achieve. Students leave as happy, well-qualified and well-motivated individuals who go on to excel in local sixth forms, colleges, universities and the wider world.
I hope you find the information on the school’s website useful. If there is anything you cannot find, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you wish to visit the school to see it for yourself, please contact the school and we would be delighted to show you around.
Zoe Andrews, Principal
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