Lead Teacher of Religious Studies
King Solomon Academy
Westminster
- Expired
- Salary:
- ARK MPS (Inner London MPS + 2.5%)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2014 (or sooner)
- Apply by:
- 20 May 2014
Job overview
Lead Teacher of Religious Studies, Westminster
A unique opportunity to be part of an outstanding academy, which seeks to redefine what is possible for a school serving an inner-city community.
As a growing school, we are now recruiting for an enthusiastic and talented teacher and leader to join our passionate team of teachers. Religious Studies plays an important role in the academic and cultural education of our pupils. All pupils sit Religious Studies full course GCSE, where pupils have experienced great success.
King Solomon Academy aims to transform the lives of its pupils. Our mission is to provide a rigorous education that prepares our pupils for success at university and beyond, irrespective of their starting point. Our teachers do whatever it takes to change the lives of the pupils we serve.
The academy opened in September 2007. The secondary school opened in September 2009 with just 60 Year 7 pupils and now serves students up to year 11. The Humanities department currently teaches Geography, History and RS to GCSE. With our first cohort we achieved 60% A+ in RS, and are on track to achieve similar outcomes in History and Geography. We have prepared pupils well for A-levels in these subjects, and also in A-level Government and Politics and Economics. We are interested in finding a lead teacher of RS who is also interested in other teaching, including A-level teaching. Our sixth form opens in September 2014.
The teacher will provide outstanding teaching and learning to ensure high attainment of their students. 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. There is the opportunity for increased responsibility and progression over time.
King Solomon Academy has achieved two successive outstanding ratings from Ofsted. It is a pioneering school looking to hire exceptional people.
In this role you will:
- Become part of a team of like-minded individuals
- Be responsible for ground-breaking educational outcomes for pupils from a economically deprived background
- Have the opportunity to take on additional leadersip responsibilities
- Join the ARK network, with comprehensive in-school CPD as well as the unique opportunity to apply for international exchanges.
For further information please go to www.kingsolomonacademy.org.
To apply please complete our online application form at: https://application.arkschools.net/vacancy/vvbvmjLw by 11am Tuesday 20 May 2014.
If you would like any further information or wish to discuss the role, please contact Zara on 020 3116 0852 or email at Zara.Khokhar@arkonline.org
Closing date: 11am on Tuesday 20 May 2014
King Solomon Academy is committed to safeguarding children; successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
King Solomon Academy
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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