Head of PE with TLR2b
Bolder Academy, Isleworth, TW7 5DBThis job expired on 15 January 2020 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2020
Closing date
15 January 2020 at 9am
Date listed
11 December 2019
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
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Working pattern
Full-time equivalent salary
- Main pay range 1 to Upper pay range 3, £28,355 to £44,541
Additional allowances
• Providing flexibility: You will benefit from an early finish every Friday.
• Putting what matters most above all else: We have the highest expectations of our students and our staff. We recognise that unnecessary burdens, bureaucracy can get in the way and must be removed if we are to achieve great things. Say goodbye to meetings: ‘agenda item 1: meeting for the sake of meeting.’ Say hello to assessment systems which are workable, efficient and, above all, designed to have the most impact on students and support staff well-being.
• Integrity, care and support: There is a small cohort of students and their parents and a small but, perfectly formed group of staff. This means there is a warmth, a friendliness. We recognise and praise when things go well, support when things don’t quite work out.
• Time: With a longer day for students (Monday to Thursday finishing at 4.15pm) there will be no expectation on you working in the evening. You will be given the time to do your day job in the day.
• Pay: Bolder’s pay scales benefit from the Outer London uplift.
• Career Progression: We are ambitious not only for our students but for our staff. Joining the Academy in its early stages, will provide you with all the experience and skills for you to make your next career move. You will make an impact, you will make a difference, you will contribute to the creation of Bolder Academy.
• Professional development, coaching and mentoring: Bolder’s professional development budget and the opportunities on offer are substantial. Each member of our staff can choose to be coached and mentored, allowing you to develop skills, career goals in areas of most interest to you.
• Working environment: Our state of the art building, due to open in 2020, provides the perfect environment for all to learn, teach and succeed.
• An easy commute: In our first two years our Academy is located at 390 London Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 5AJ. It highly accessible - a 2 minutes’ walk from Isleworth Station (35 mins from central London.). From 2020, the new building is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane station, the stop before Isleworth.
Head of PE with TLR2b job summary
Line Manager: A member of the senior team.
Posts directly supervised: N/A
Main Purpose of Role: To secure excellent progress of all students.
To deliver high quality teaching and learning, the effective use of resources and improved standards of learning and achievement of all students.
Conditions of Service: Reference should be made to the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document and the National Standards for Teachers. It is a requirement that teachers meet these standards.
Core Accountabilities:
Progress and Outcomes:
• Ensure all students, including those with SEN and in receipt of Free School Meals make at least good progress across all of the Key Stages in PE as defined by external and internal data.
• Ensure variations between the progress made by different groups of students or any areas of underachievement including the variation of groups of students, is addressed and the achievement gap is closed across PE.
• Ensure outcomes of students across PE is at least good when compared to national averages.
• Ensure all learners acquire knowledge of the curriculum quickly and in depth.
• Ensure all learners develop literacy, communication and numeracy skills.
Teaching and Learning:
• Meet the Teachers Professional Standards.
• Lead the PE department and ensure the curriculum and provision is high quality.
• Lead on the teaching and learning of numeracy across the Academy.
• Teach and plan high quality lessons in which students make at least good progress.
• Teach all students and key stages (when they come on line) across the curriculum as required by the timetable.
• Ensure teaching, learning and assessment is typically good across the department by having a clear vision for this and by coaching and supporting staff to achieve it.
• Promote consistently high expectations of all students and apply whole Academy policies.
• Acquire and maintain excellent and up to date subject knowledge and develop an exciting and purposeful curriculum.
• Support all staff to assess students’ prior knowledge, skills and understanding accurately and use data to inform interventions.
• Ensure all staff systematically and effectively check students’ understanding throughout lessons, homework and over time through summative and formative assessment (in line with Academy policy).
• Enable all staff to use well-judged and imaginative teaching strategies to provide support and intervention to meet the needs of individual learners in order that they make at least good progress relative to their starting point.
• Secure the promotion of high levels of enthusiasm for, participation in and commitment to learning amongst all students by working with other teachers to develop their practice.
• Promote students’ confidence and independence so that they are able to tackle challenging activities and can display high levels of resilience.
Behaviour and Safety:
• Develop and promote effective partnerships with parents, carers, other staff and students so they are highly positive about the subject area in terms of achievement, teaching and learning, behaviour and safety.
• Take a lead role in establishing a positive learning environment within own classroom and that of those they line management and work with so that students are able to make a positive contribution, learn and thrive in an atmosphere of dignity and respect.
• By coaching and mentoring staff ensure all students within the classroom show high levels of engagement, courtesy, collaboration and cooperation within the subject area.
• Ensure all students taught within the classroom arrive punctually to lessons and learning time is maximized.
• Ensure student behaviour is managed through a systematic, consistent approach to behaviour management, in line with Academy policy, is applied within all lessons.
• Take active steps to eradicate all forms of bullying.
• Be aware of what constitutes an unsafe situation and that staff within their subject area know how to keep themselves and others safe.
Leadership and Management:
• Demonstrate an uncompromising and highly effective drive to improve achievement, or sustain the highest level of achievement, for all students, over a sustained period of time.
• Lead by example and demonstrate passion and ambition for the Academy, subject and its students.
• Lead on self-evaluation activities related to teaching, learning and assessment.
• Support with the production, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of a subject development plan and teaching and learning development plan in line with the Academy’s priorities.
• Focus relentlessly on improving the quality of teaching and learning and assessment across the whole of the Academy and ensure that it impacts on learners.
• By working with and through teachers, provide a highly positive, memorable and rich experiences for high quality learning which contributes to student achievement within the subject area and their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
• Employ highly successful strategies for engaging with parents and carers.
• Employ highly effective strategies across the Academy to improve achievement and progress by: seeking out and modeling best practice, reflecting on the quality of teaching, learning, behaviour and progress, being open to coaching, dialogue, mentoring and support.
• Provide regular feedback to staff which is honest and be positive and active in team meetings to allow for effective communication and dissemination.
• Take part in staff appraisal and, absence management meetings (if applicable).
• Use appropriate strategies to tackle student and staff underperformance and celebrate student achievements.
• Work effectively and positively with the governing body, the leadership team and all other staff.
• Meet the statutory requirements for safeguarding.
General responsibilities:
• As a leader and manager in the classroom and across the Academy, contribute to the overall leadership of teaching and learning and PE by being proactive in supporting an ethos that recognizes and celebrates success and promotes high expectations and aspirations.
• Contribute to the effective management of the Academy through the implementation of Academy policies, code of conduct.
• To be a visible presence around the Academy.
• Attend meetings and parents’ meetings relevant to the post.
• Other duties as the Head may reasonably require.
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.
About Bolder Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 844 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Bolder Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- vacancies@bolderacademy.co.uk
Bolder Academy is a non-denominational, mixed secondary school in the London Borough of Hounslow.
Bolder Academy was set up by local primary and secondary school headteachers to meet the demand for additional places. It is born out of passion, innovation and need.
We recognise that each and every one of our students is unique, with different strengths and different passions. We welcome all to Bolder Academy.
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