Head of History
Dame Alice Owen's School, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, EN6 2DUThis job expired on 20 April 2023
Start date details
Required for September 2023
Closing date
20 April 2023 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
31 March 2023
Job details
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- View all Historyjobs
Working pattern
- View all Full timejobs - Full Time, Permanent Post
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
Additional allowances
TLR 2b
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Governing Body of this highly successful, partially selective, mixed school invites applications for the post of Head of History. We seek a highly motivated and energetic candidate to join and lead our very successful and well resourced History department. The role will involve ensuring an innovative, relevant and challenging curriculum across all Key Stages, that staff are challenged and supported and that high standards are maintained and progressed in all lessons. You will monitor the assessment and achievement of pupils as well as reviewing, evaluating and developing standards of teaching and learning across Key Stages. You will lead the History department with a focus on developing teaching and learning strategies and the curriculum to keep History a fresh, exciting and relevant subject for all students.
What the school offers its staff
In the 2022 A level examinations, 44% of all grades were A* with 91% of grades being awarded A*-B. In GCSE examinations, students achieved a Progress 8 score of +0.74 and an average Attainment 8 score of 75.8 with 40% of all grades being a grade 9 and 95% of students achieving 5 or more grades 9-4 including English and Maths. 50% of GCSE History results were awarded a Grade 9, 77% were graded 9-7 and over 90% at grade 5 or above; 58% of A Level History results were graded A* with 94.2% graded A*-B.
The school provides an excellent range of staff development opportunities. This is currently led by Lauren Common, Assistant Headteacher and our team of ASTs/SLEs with responsibility for teaching and learning. All staff members are encouraged to continue their personal development and undertake further qualifications if they wish.
We have a commitment to ensuring staff undertake minimal cover and wherever possible none at all.
The Governing Body is committed to admitting the children of staff in line with our admissions procedures.
We fully appreciate the time and consideration which go into applying for a new job. If there is anything we can do to help you through this process, please do not hesitate to ask.
We very much look forward to receiving your application.
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About Dame Alice Owen's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1447 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
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- Email address
- recruitment@damealiceowens.herts.sch.uk
Dame Alice Owen’s School is a mixed, partially selective secondary school with over 1,440 registered pupils and a vibrant and highly successful sixth form. Our school was founded 400 years ago by Dame Alice Owen, a remarkable philanthropist with an unusually modern vision for education. She established the first school in Islington and as demand outstripped space, it moved to its current setting in the Hertfordshire countryside. Because of its roots and its close and important relationship with the Worshipful Company of Brewers, there are 20 places each year for 11 year old students from Islington. It also offers 65 places to the highest scoring applicants who sit the entrance exam each year and a further 10 places for the most talented or able musicians who apply for a place in Year 7. The remainder of the places in an annual cohort of 200 go to siblings, local pupils on the basis of proximity to the school and to those with priority need. It is this combination of students and its truly outstanding record of achievement and added value that makes our school such a special place. It is oversubscribed by 5 applicants per place every year. Our dedicated staff, parents’ association, governing body and school (staff and student) leaders constantly appraise and re-appraise the various aspects of school life, learning and achievement so we are never complacent. Our school faces the usual challenges of all educational establishments in the public sector, and ensuring that their impact is felt least by the students is a key objective. We were delighted to be recognised as The Sunday Times Regional School of the Decade in November 2020; securing a place at Owen’s has been described as “winning the lottery” in the Good School Guide and “the golden ticket” in Tatler. Our school benefits from some of the most able students in the country. Many of our school leavers from Year 13 have offers from top universities to choose from, including on average 20 places at Oxbridge each year. Our Foundress left a number of fields in the then village of Islington to the care of the Worshipful Company of Brewers which now generate over one million pounds of additional income for the school annually, to support the school and especially the Sports Department. This creates a very special ethos and fosters the very positive staff working environment. The students and staff benefit from a number of traditions including Beer Money, staff awards and Visitation.
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