Curriculum Leader of Religious Education
Netherwood Academy, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S73 8FE15 days remaining to apply
Closing date
17 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Religious Education
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,957.00 - £50,062.00 Annually (FTE) Plus TLR 2D (£5,659)
Curriculum Leader of Religious Education job summary
Curriculum Leader of Religious Education – Netherwood Academy
Are you passionate about making a lasting impact on students, especially those who are disadvantaged, and accelerating their progress? Do you want to work in a school where you can teach freely, with impeccable student behaviour and minimal bureaucracy?
Netherwood Academy, part of the Astrea Academy Trust, is an 11-16 academy that opened in September 2012, set in an extensive £35 million campus. We are currently in an exciting period of development and are looking for a dedicated Curriculum Leader to join our team.
Role Overview: As Curriculum Leader, you will excel in the classroom and play a crucial role in supporting your departmental colleagues to be their best. You will be involved in mentoring, coaching, professional development, and challenging your team to achieve excellence.
Ideal Candidate: The ideal candidate will be an experienced and outstanding classroom practitioner with a track record of strong outcomes. You will be a beacon of excellent practice in the classroom and possess the intellectual and professional credibility to drive up standards across the department.
Our Commitment: At Netherwood Academy, we are committed to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour, and culture. We believe in teaching powerful knowledge, ‘the best that has been thought and said,’ and providing an ‘entitlement curriculum’ for all. Our approach is greatly influenced by Lemov’s ‘Teach Like A Champion,’ Rosenshine’s principles, and recent developments in cognitive science. We aim to create a scholarly culture that is warm, strict, disciplined, and joyful, ensuring impeccable behaviour so that teachers can focus on teaching and pupils can focus on learning.
Values and Vision: We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all our students, enabling them to learn, thrive, and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, regardless of their background, prior attainment, or needs. We strive to ensure that all students have the option to attend university or pursue aspirational alternatives. We do not lower expectations due to a child’s background or home life; instead, we redouble our efforts to help them overcome barriers and flourish.
Staff Support: We value our staff highly and take workload seriously. Our systems are designed to be high leverage, allowing you to focus on your core purpose – teaching – in a sustainable way, free from bureaucracy or poor behaviour.
What We Offer:
- Extensive support and progression opportunities
- A knowledge-rich curriculum built on ‘powerful knowledge’ and traditional teaching methods
- Collaborative planning with centralised, shared units of work and resources
- Excellent support from the Astrea Trust Central team
- A feedback policy focused on whole class feedback – no onerous marking policies
- Disruption-free learning and a ‘warm/strict’ behaviour system
- Highly visible and supportive senior leaders
- Centralised detentions, including homework detentions
- No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing ‘no-stakes’ instructional coaching
- Excellent ongoing CPD, career development, and promotion opportunities across the Astrea South Yorkshire region
- Opportunity to complete NPQs
- An unrivalled professional progression model
What We Are Looking For: The successful candidate will be:
- A highly effective professional who can motivate and encourage colleagues to share our vision
- Aligned with our values and mission, and someone who will thrive in our culture
- Passionate about the belief that all children can achieve, regardless of their starting point, background, or needs
Interested in Applying? If you are interested in this role, looking for a new challenge, and have a passion for education, please refer to the Applicant Brief for more details on how to apply. We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our academy to fully appreciate our excellent learning environment.
Closing Date: The closing date for all applications is midnight on 17th April 2025.
Safeguarding Commitment: 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.
Diversity and Inclusion: We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates who are underrepresented in our workforce, including people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ communities.
Flexible Interview Dates: Please note that interview dates are flexible.
If you are ready to take the next step in your career and contribute to our dynamic and forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you. Apply today and be a part of our mission to create a positive impact!
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.
Applying for the job
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About Netherwood Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1236 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Netherwood Academy website
Netherwood Academy is an 11-16 academy which opened in September 2012, set in an extensive £35 million campus. As part of Astrea Academy Trust, Netherwood Academy is in an exciting period of development.
A WELCOME FROM THE PRINCIPAL
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to Netherwood Academy. I took the helm here at the beginning of September 2020 after almost 10 years Headship experience in two schools elsewhere in Yorkshire, and I am committed, alongside my staff team, to doing everything in my power to ensure Netherwood is the school of choice for all secondary-age students in the wider community.
We have ambitious plans to take the school further on its journey to “inspiring beyond measure”, backed by Astrea, a forward-looking and values-driven trust which operates a large number of primary and secondary schools throughout South Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire.
My personal ambitions for Netherwood are very straightforward – to provide an excellent all-round education for every student, whatever their background, and inspire them to be ambitious for themselves, both academically and socially, so that they go out into the wider world as responsible citizens, fully-equipped for what life has to offer. This will include a commitment from us, as staff, to broadening students’ general cultural awareness, and we aim to do this through high expectations and an unapologetic focus on students doing the right thing day-in, day-out. We believe this will make all of our classrooms and corridors disruption-free, enabling teachers to teach high-quality lessons and students to learn and thrive every day.
Our facilities are modern and extensive, and we have worked hard to ensure curriculum areas and extra-curricular activities are well-resourced and accessible to everyone. We have dedicated, state-of-the-art spaces for indoor and outdoor Physical Education, as well as the Visual and Performing Arts, including Music, Drama and Dance.
More and more families from the local area are choosing Netherwood for their children than ever before, and staff at the school have the confidence to send their own children here, in greater numbers than we have ever seen – this is testament to the rapid improvements we have made over the past two years, and which we continue to make.
When Ofsted next visit us, we are adamant that we will be judged to be a Good school, for the first time in the school’s history; the work we have already undertaken means we are well on the way to achieving this ambition.
Our academy is a bright and vibrant community, where children sit at the very heart of everything we do. I very much hope it is a community you would like to be part of.
Best wishes
Mr J Mitchel
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