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Curriculum Leader of English

Leeds West Academy, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS13 1DQ

This job expired on 6 February 2023 – see similar jobs

Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
6 February 2023 at 9am
Date listed
26 January 2023

Job details

Job role: View all Head of year, department, curriculum or phasejobs
Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject: View all Englishjobs
Working pattern: View all Full timejobs - Full time
Contract type: Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPS (£28,000 - £43,685)
Pay scale: MPS/UPS (£28,000 - £43,685)
Additional allowances: plus TLR 1c (£14,732)

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious Curriculum Leader of English to join our existing team. To lead an inclusive, coherently sequenced, and diverse English curriculum that promotes the accumulation of knowledge, skills and cultural capital through inspirational literature and language lessons. We are committed to ensuring all students continue to achieve beyond their potential. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity to join a department dedicated to improving outcomes, aspirations and life chances of young people.

The English Team at Leeds West Academy has a wide range of experience and skills. The department works collaboratively to develop both learning experiences and professional growth. Staff at all levels feel well developed by both our departmental and whole school CPD programmes, including the working partnership we have with Leeds Learning Partnership and The Prince’s Teaching Institute.

In the English department, we believe in making sure our students are given a wide breadth and depth of knowledge across both language and literature that not only sets them up for excellent GCSE results but also life beyond the classroom. We teach a thematic curriculum, which means that students are given an opportunity to read widely across time periods and the globe and from a range of authors from different backgrounds.

What the school offers its staff

Leeds West Academy is a school with a remarkable sense of community anda strong and safe culture, a place where staff and students can thrive.We were judged as ‘Good’ by Ofsted in May 2019 because teaching is strong, the support we provide for our students and staff is unrivalled and because our results have improved year-on-year since 2016. In 2022, our students secured the best results in the school’s history. In short, there is no better timetojoin Leeds West Academy, as a colleague, a leader or as a student.

Leeds West Academy is a fabulous placetowork. We are a caring and supportive community, part of White Rose Academies Trust and benefit from exceptional CPD. A broad, varied and highly bespoke package is well-established, driven by the latest in educational research focused on the development of all professionals in the organisation at each career stage. Colleagues train with us, they grow with us and they progress with us.

Our academy predominantly serves the community of Bramley in Leeds. We are oversubscribed and popular within our community. More families are choosing Leeds West Academy as first-choice for their children than ever before.

Our students are amazing; they are generally respectful young people who embrace diversity and have a strong sense of fairness.

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