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  • Start date details

    January 2025

  • Closing date

    14 October 2024 at 9am

  • Date listed

    23 September 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

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Subject

Art & Design

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£31,350.00 - £47,839.00 Annually (FTE) TLR2B £5527 (pro rated from FTE)

Head of Art job summary

Purpose of post

The post of Head of Department carries overall management responsibility for the relevant curriculum area and the staff working within the department.

The post holder also has a broader responsibility, as a middle leader, to work with and support sentient staff colleagues to promote and sustain the wider educational progress of all pupils at the school.

These roles and responsibilities should be read in conjunction with those applicable for Main and where applicable Upper pay Scale teachers.


PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Your key accountabilities as a teacher at Katherine Warington School are:

Teaching and Learning

1. Plan and deliver lessons in accordance with the school policy on teaching and learning

2. Collaborate with partners to implement schemes of work, ensuring that these support good

learning and good student progress

3. Set appropriate and demanding expectations for students’ learning, motivation and presentation of work

4. Liaise with relevant colleagues on the planning of units of work for collaborative delivery

5. Contribute to the departmental development plans

6. Work in collaboration with Teaching Assistants and with other adults who may attend lessons to support students

7. Know, and take account of, students’ prior levels of attainment and use them to plan lessons and set targets for future improvements

8. Set work for students absent from school for health and disciplinary reasons

9. Maintain good discipline by adherence to the advice given to staff in the staff handbook and elsewhere

10. Set high expectations for students’ behaviour by establishing a purposeful working atmosphere in accordance with the school’s behaviour code


Assessment, Recording and Reporting

1. Maintain notes and plans of lessons undertaken, and records of students’ work

2. Mark, monitor and return work within a reasonable and agreed time span in accordance

with the school marking and assessment policy, providing constructive oral and written

feedback and clear targets for future learning as appropriate

3. Analyse data on student progress, achievement and attainment in line with school policy

and practice

4. Complete student reports and progress grades in line with policy and as specified in the

published calendar

5. Attend the appropriate parents’ evenings to keep parents informed as to the progress of

their child

6. Be familiar with the Code of Practice for identification and assessment of Special Education

Needs and keep appropriate records on Individual Education Plans for students



Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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About Katherine Warington School

School type
Free School, ages 11 to 19
Education phase
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School size
923 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19

Katherine Warington School is a new comprehensive, co‐educational and non‐denominational academic secondary school (opened September 19) with 750 students currently (180 in each of years 7, 8, 9 and 10 – these year groups are already oversubscribed). The school will add a

further 180 students in each subsequent year and then open a 250 strong Sixth Form. By 2025 we will have grown to our capacity of 1,150 students. The school was established through the partnership of the Harpenden Secondary Schools Trust, which includes the three outstanding

schools in Harpenden: Roundwood Park, St George’s and Sir John Lawes and additional partners: the University of Hertfordshire and Rothamsted Research Centre (a world leading non‐profit agricultural science research centre).

Further details about the school, including our prospectus and virtual tour, can be found on our website: www.kwschool.co.uk

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