Head of Year 12/13

Dame Alice Owen's School, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, EN6 2DU

7 days remaining to apply

• Expected start date

  As soon as possible

• Application deadline

  6 July 2022 at 12:00pm

• Date listed

  21 June 2022

Job details

• Job role:
  • Middle leader
• Working pattern:
  • Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Salary: MPS/UPS + TLR 1a

Head of Year 12/13 job summary

We reserve the right to make an appointment before the closing date, so early applications are encouraged.

The Governors of this highly successful, partially selective, mixed school invite applications for the post of Head of Year 12/13. This position is being advertised internally and externally. The Head of Year 12/13 will lead a cohort of students through their time in the Sixth Form, within a supportive and experienced professional team. The focus will be supporting the academic and personal development of our students. We have high expectations of our students, and seek to offer them not only an outstanding education but also varied extra and super curricular, and leadership opportunities. The post holder would play a key part in the development and delivery of these, as well as supporting the students personally and in their classroom learning. The Head of Year 12/13 would work closely with the Head of Sixth Form and their counterpart in the other year group to develop and deliver the best possible support. The teaching team is well supported by colleagues whose full time role is to support students personally (the Pastoral Manager), academically (the Learning Manager) and both our UCAS and Careers leads.

In 2019 the school achieved a Progress 8 score of +0.65 and 93% of students achieved 5 or more grades 9-4 including English and Maths at GCSE and 84% of A level entries were graded A*-B.

The school is situated on an attractive 35-acre site in the Green Belt, has excellent facilities and is committed to an extensive programme of staff development. Central London is easily reached by rail from Potters Bar and the school is close to motorway links.

The Governing Body is committed to admitting the children of staff in line with our admissions procedures.

Applying for the job

Please download our Teaching Staff application form from our website to make your application. Please note that applications cannot be considered unless the application is completed in full. We are not able to accept CVs for any posts based in school. To apply, please send your completed application form together with a covering letter stating why you are well placed to take this position at our school to recruitment@damealiceowens.herts.sch.uk by noon, Wednesday 6th July 2022.

Supporting documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

External Advert - Head of Year 12-13.pdf - 318 KB (opens in a new tab)

About Dame Alice Owen's School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1449 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)
• School website: Dame Alice Owen's School website (opens in a new tab)
• Contact email: recruitment@damealiceowens.herts.sch.uk
• Contact phone number: 01707643441
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/dame-alice-owen-s-school-potters-bar (opens in a new tab)

Dame Alice Owen’s School is a mixed, partially selective secondary school with over 1,440 registered students 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 students showing the most aptitude in music who apply for a place in Year 7. The remainder of the places, in an annual cohort of 200, go to siblings, local students on the basis of proximity to the school and to those with priority need.
It is this combination of student 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’ and the country’s highest ranking non-fully selective state school of the year in 2021. 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. 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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