Headteacher of Oreston Community Academy

Oreston Community Academy, Plymouth, Devon, PL9 7JY

12 days remaining to apply

Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
20 February 2023 at 9am
Date listed
20 January 2023

Job details

Job role: View all Headteacher, deputy or assistant headteacherjobs
Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern: View all Full timejobs - Full-time, Monday to Friday
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: L15-L21

What skills and experience we're looking for

Proven senior leadership experience in primary phase.
Leading, and teaching, across the full primary age range.
Ability to implement the whole school policies and procedures to affect rapid and sustained school improvement.
Experience of using a range of information and evidence to raise pupil achievement, improve teaching and the curriculum.
Proven ability as an excellent classroom teacher (as a member of staff).
Deep subject and disciplinary knowledge to drive standards.
Illustrations of how knowledge and concepts are structured to lead subsequent learning.
Knowledge of working memory, recall, practice and scaffolding.
Specific knowledge, understanding and skills.
What constitutes quality and high standards in learning, teaching and curriculum design.

What the school offers its staff

Oreston Community Academy is situated in a suburb of Plymouth in the South West of England, about 3 miles from the city centre.

We are a two-form entry school with two parallel classes for each year group andwe currently have 420children aged from 4 to 11, arranged in four teaching teams:

A Foundation Unit of 60children
Key Stage 1 - Years 1 and 2
Lower Key Stage 2 - Years 3 and 4
Upper Key Stage 2 - Years 5 and 6

In January 2011, we became the first Primary Academyin Plymouth, reflecting our desire to chart our own particular independent direction for the future. Together with a group of like minded primary and secondary schools, we formed the Westcountry Schools Trust (WeST) in September 2017.

Visitors to Oreston Community Academy are always impressed with the feeling of being part the local community. Both staff and children are proud to be part of the school. Our atmosphere is outstanding and our children’s learning journey is a positive and happy one.