Head of English
Ernulf Academy, St. Neots, PE19 2SH30 days remaining to apply
Closing date
20 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £54,672.00 - £65,090.00 Annually (Actual)
Head of English job summary
Purpose
The fundamental duty of the post holder is to lead and manage the English department and team. The role will also require the successful candidate to work strategically with the National Lead for English to build a well-sequenced, bookletised curriculum and develop a consistent approach to teaching pedagogy underpinned by Rosenshine’s principles and Teach Like a Champion.
The post holder will be accountable for pupil progress throughout Key Stages 3 and 4 ensuring all students, regardless of their starting points, make expected progress.
The successful applicant will be able to strategically shape the future of English across the school, embedded as a core subject as part of a broad and balanced curriculum. Pupils have eight hours per fortnight across Key Stage 3 and then 9 hours per fortnight across Key Stage 4. Pupils routinely attend period 6 sessions and the post holder is expected to support these sessions.
The post holder is to make a special contribution to sustaining Ernulf Academy as a safe and supportive environment founded on high expectations, mutual respect and enjoyment of learning.
Teachers promote the intellectual, social, moral, spiritual, cultural and, as appropriate, physical development of the students. They seek to focus all students on learning and provide support to their classes and form groups.
They also represents the ethos, values and approach of the Academy to pupils, parents and staff.
If you are the type of person who fits with our culture and is aligned to our values and mission, you will love working at Ernulf Academy.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Teach a planned timetable of 40 periods per two-week timetable including supporting the delivery of the Personal Development and PSHE curriculum
Plan and teach engaging and challenging lessons that pave the way for success in school and in life together with setting and marking appropriate homework
Meet the needs of all learners by consistently planning and teaching differentiated lessons.
Use regular, measurable and significant assessments of teaching
Closely monitor progress and attainment of all pupils in your year group and use it to inform teachers
Provide content to deliver high quality pupil SENDCO interventions
Maintain regular and productive communication with parents about their child’s progress, behaviour and development
Organise and participate in exciting and motivating trips and events
Provide feedback to faculty colleagues that is supportive and that leads to sustained development
Lead and manage a quality assurance process for faculty colleagues and model best practice across all year groups
Act as a role model in terms of professionalism and positivity in the staff body
Contribute to the overall academy wide leadership through specific leadership duties as directed by the Principal.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Ernulf Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 733 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Ernulf Academy website (opens in new tab)
Principal’s welcome – Ernulf Academy
Welcome to Ernulf Academy, an 11-16 secondary school in St.Neots located in North Cambridgeshire. The academy is part of Astrea Academy Trust, a highly successful multi-academy trust of primary and secondary academies in Cambridgeshire and South Yorkshire.
Ernulf Academy is a school fully committed to an inclusive, comprehensive curriculum for all, which is underpinned by our five core values: scholarship, curiosity, tenacity, responsibility and respect. These values are at the heart of our vision for the school and the important qualities and characteristics we want all pupils to develop. Our pupils are encouraged to develop confidence, independence and resilience. We strive for them to be ambitious and ‘be the best they can be’, whilst being considerate, tolerant and willing to contribute positively to the wider community.
Work hard
We firmly believe in a disruption free learning environment and as such we have established nine core routines which form the basis of our academic day. A knowledge-rich curriculum, built on ‘powerful knowledge,’ underpins our teaching and learning principles. We offer a traditional approach to teaching and learning following evidence-based research by Rosenshine and Teach Like A Champion (TLAC) which lead to inspiring and stimulating lessons. Our enrichment provision aims to take learning outside the classroom and we offer an extensive range of extra-curricular activities including sporting activities, residential visits and educational experiences.
Safeguarding is at the heart of what we do and we recognise the challenges that our pupils face. Therefore, we have a dedicated pastoral team with a Head of Year and Pastoral Co-ordinator for each year group and a ‘Wellbeing’ team including our school therapy dog.
Be kind
Ernulf Academy is a friendly and supportive school, which prides itself on treating everyone as individuals and having a ‘family’ atmosphere. We teach our pupils empathy and respect, and we have a zero tolerance to bullying. A scholarly approach is at our core but enabling our pupils to have a holistic education, preparing them for life in the 21st century and becoming global citizens is just as important.
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