Head of Key Stage 3

Astrea Academy Woodfields, Doncaster, DN4 8ND

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  01 January 2026

• Closing date

  29 September 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  11 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Head of year or phase
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £33,235.00 - £52,064.00 Annually (Actual) TLR 1a - £10,173 pa

Head of Key Stage 3 job summary

Join our team as a Head of Key Stage Three at Astrea Academy Woodfields!

Job Information:
Do you want to be part of a leadership team where you will help make a lasting impact on our students, many of whom are disadvantaged, and rapidly accelerate their progress? Do you want to work in a school where you are free to teach, with impeccable student behaviour and unhindered by bureaucracy?

Astrea Academy Trust is looking for a candidate who is ready to take their next step in leadership to become a Head of Key Stage Three at Astrea Academy Woodfields. This is an excellent opportunity for an existing or aspiring middle leader with a track record of impact in leading a year group or subject area. The position is a great match for someone who shares the Trust’s vision for educational excellence and has the focus to drive rapid, transformational improvement.

Our Commitment:
We are committed to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour, and culture. We believe that schools must teach powerful knowledge, ‘the best that has been thought and said,’ and an ‘entitlement curriculum’ for all. We believe in explicit instruction and have been greatly influenced by Lemov’s ‘Teach Like A Champion,’ Rosenshine, and recent developments in cognitive science. We believe that the creation of a scholarly culture that is warm and strict, disciplined and joyful, where there is ‘purpose not power,’ ensuring impeccable behaviour, where teachers can focus on teaching and pupils can focus on learning, underpins everything.

Our Values:
We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive, and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment, or needs. We want to ensure that all our students have the option to be able to go to university or aspirational alternative. We are not going to reduce expectations because of a child’s background or home life, or because they are new to English or have a special education need. In fact, the opposite is true. It is our job to redouble our efforts to help children overcome these barriers so that they can flourish.

We value our staff highly and treat workload very seriously. Our systems are high leverage, ensuring you can really focus on your core purpose - teaching, in a sustainable way, unhindered by bureaucracy or poor behaviour.

What We Offer:

• Huge support and progression opportunities
• A knowledge-rich curriculum, built on ‘powerful knowledge’ and a traditional T&L approach built around Rosenshine and TLAC
• 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/supportive senior leaders who have your back
• Centralised detentions, including homework detentions (you do not need to organise/run/chase them at all)
• No formal graded lesson observations - just ongoing ‘no-stakes’ instructional coaching, helping you to continuously develop
• 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:

• A highly effective senior leader or aspiring middle leader, who is able to motivate and encourage colleagues to the shared vision.
• Aligned to our values and mission. If you are the type of person who fits with our culture, you will love working here.
• Someone who passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter what their starting point, background, or needs. Someone that does not make excuses for what children can achieve.

Interested in Applying?
If this is something you are interested in, looking for a new challenge, have a passion for education, or maybe all of the above, take a look at the Recruitment Pack and Job Description to find out more about the role and how to apply. We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our academy to fully appreciate our excellent learning environment. Please contact Kathryn Haughian if you would like to arrange a visit to the academy.

Commitment to Safeguarding and EDI: Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks, including references and enhanced DBS checks. 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. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to promoting a culture that ensures there are no barriers to the recruitment, development, and progression of disabled staff across the trust. We provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate their abilities.

Ready to Make a Difference? If you're ready to take the next step in your career and contribute to our dynamic and forward-thinking team, apply today and be a part of our mission to create a positive impact!

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

We all have a statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

Applying for the job

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About Astrea Academy Woodfields

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 714 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Astrea Academy Woodfields website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/astrea-academy-woodfields

Our vision for education is simple and one that allows teachers to teach. We believe in a curriculum that is knowledge-rich, ‘the best that is thought and said’, that is supported by a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour and culture. We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive and lead successful lives.

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