Deputy Headteacher - Curriculum, CPD & Teaching and Learning
King Solomon Academy
Westminster
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership scale (negotiable based on skills and experience)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2015
- Apply by:
- 14 November 2014
Job overview
A unique opportunity to join an 'Outstanding' academy in Westminster
Thank you for taking the time to find out more about King Solomon Academy in Westminster and the possibility of working here.
The academy opened in September 2007 with an intake of two reception classes and is growing each year with a new intake. The academy is based in new, state of the art facilities, and will be structured into two small schools for infant and junior pupils. The secondary school opened in September 2009 with just 60 Year 7 pupils. This is an innovative school with staff willing to do whatever it takes to change our pupils' lives. Ofsted have rated the school as outstanding on two occasions.
We are now looking for an outstanding Deputy Headteacher to join our committed staff team. The successful candidate will be responsible for strategic leadership and significant operational management of whole school responsibilities. They will work collaboratively with the Senior Leadership Team on a wide range of issues, line managing particular leaders and teachers, and leading and managing all staff.
Additionally, the Deputy Head will lead on curriculum (and assessment), and take responsibility for the quality of teaching and learning in the school. This role will ensure all pupils at King Solomon Academy are accessing an appropriate and transformational curriculum, which is taught and assessed rigorously.
The successful candidate will have:
- Experience of prior successful leadership at a middle or senior level
- Experience of having worked successfully in at least one school in an urban, multi-cultural setting, teaching students from backgrounds of socio-economic disadvantage
- Experience of having led, or significantly contributed to, the success of a school through its leadership, ethos, teaching and learning and results
- Experience of raising standards at a classroom and leadership level through rigorous data tracking and analysis
- Experience of having improved and sustained an effective behaviour management policy
We are looking for an individual with a genuine passion for working at King Solomon Academy, a belief in the potential of every child and that through hard work all pupils can access and benefit from a university education.
For further information, please go to: www.kingsolomonacademy.org.
To apply please complete the online application form at: https://application.arkschools.net/vacancy/stKNbdGM by 11.00am on Friday 14th November 2014.
If you have any queries or wish to discuss the role further, please contact the recruitment team on 0203 116 6345 or at schools.recruitment@arkonline.org.
King Solomon Academy is committed to safeguarding children; successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check. ARK is always happy to receive speculative applications from excellent teachers and support staff.
About King Solomon Academy
King Solomon Academy is an all-through school for 3 - 18 year olds in Lisson Grove.
Pupils and their immense potential are at the heart of the academy. They live and work by the philosophy that there are no excuses and no short cuts to success, and promote excellence in every aspect of academy life.
Aims, Vision and Values
Our mission is to provide our pupils with a rigorous and transformational education which prepares them for success at university and beyond. We ensure that every pupil achieves academic success and has the real option of going to university. We want to make university education something which is accessible, exciting and aspirational. We believe our pupils work hard towards this goal because we make it real for them. We name our classes after well-known university cities and we name each year group by the year in which they will graduate from sixth form. We run residential trips to universities to open their eyes to the opportunties that university study can deliver.
In order to make our dreams for our pupils a reality, we foster values and approaches that transform the lives of our pupils. At the heart of our approach is that we are an all-through school with a thriving nursery provision. We believe in investing in knowing our pupils and their families extremely well, and we prioritise our pupils making extraordinary progress in the early years of their education. This sense of long-term commitment is core to our approach.
We have high expectations for all of our pupils, and believe that with great teaching and a lot of love and care, every child here can fulfil their potential.This both warm and strict approach means pupils feel safe and secure in the school but also confident to contribute to the future of the school and their community.
Long term, we aim to play our part in removing the educational disadvantage currently experienced by those born into economic deprivation our country. We strive to create role models and leaders in our community and through them to create a safer, fairer, and happier society.
Our vision
High expectations We are climbing the mountain to university
Excellent teaching We love teaching and learning and place it at the heart of all our work.
A rigorous and transformational curriculum Our all-through curriculum is carefully designed and implemented to ensure that our pupils have a journey from nursery to university
Exemplary Character Our focus on high quality relationships creates a powerful culture which ensures that our pupils develop exemplary behaviour and character.
A long-term commitment to every pupil As one of a handful of all-through schools with consistent cohorts of children across primary and secondary, we are able to develop a unique team and family orientated culture which ensures that each of our pupils and families are known and cared for as individuals.
Investment in our team We choose to work at KSA because we know we will work together to address educational inequality.
Efficient and effective organisation We carefully organise the operational and educational activities in our school to maximise our collective impact and make our work sustainable.
Specialisms
Like all Ark academies, King Solomon Academy has a maths specialism. Proficiency in maths is essential in every sphere of adult life, so we invest in the resources to attract and train the best maths teachers. We aim to produce confident and proficient mathematicians. We will ensure that pupils acquire skills as early as possible. We will help every student to maximise their skills and qualifications and offer those with particular ability the chance to accelerate their achievement in maths and further maths.
King Solomon Academy is a music specialist school. We chose music as a specialism because it is fun and inspiring and can involve every pupil. We believe that being part of the KSA orchestra will create a great sense of shared identity as well enabling our pupils to benefit from the known academic, intellectual and social advantages of musical training.
Ofsted
King Solomon Academy was inspected by Ofsted in May 2013 and was graded as "outstanding" in all areas. You can read the full report here.
Among the points highlighted by the Inspectors in the academy's first full inspection report since opening, they say:
“King Solomon Academy is an outstanding and unique 21st century school". Among many other points Ofsted praise KSA's creation and inspiration of "a community of enthusiastic learners, who are passionate about achieving academic excellence."
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