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Principal

Everest Community Academy

Basingstoke, Hampshire

Salary:
Negotiable depending on experience
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2014
Apply by:
22 April 2014

Job overview

Principal, Hampshire     

Age Range: 11-16 (Sixth form application at DfE if successful, due to open September 2015)  

Everest Community Academy, based in Basingstoke, Hampshire, is a key member of the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET). As part of AET we are going from strength to strength. There is real energy and vibrancy which comes through everyone associated with Everest. Our real strengths are the students and staff, their commitment and sense of community makes Everest an inclusive Academy and a great place to work.

Due to the retirement of the existing Principal, we are looking for a driven leader, who has high aspirations and commitment to achieving continuous Academy improvement which will achieve the best outcomes for our learners.

The successful candidate will be an outstanding teacher and leader, with a clear focus and vision to take Everest Academy to Good and then Outstanding, building upon improvement that has already been achieved.

Following our Ofsted inspection in July 2013, the Academy was found to require improvement, however Leadership and Management was Good. Everest is an ambitious Academy, with our best ever results last summer making us the most improved school in Hampshire. We strive to build on this success and the Academy is on a journey to becoming consistently Good and then Outstanding.

With the support of the largest Academy Trust in the UK, everything is in place for you and our Academy to succeed!

Closing date: 22 April 2014, 12 noon.
Interview dates: 29 and 30 April 2014

The Academies Enterprise Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate at Enhanced Level will be required for this post.

For an informal discussion, to arrange a visit or for an application form contact:

Tanya Bentham on 0845 453 0060 or Jodie Day on 0845 453 0295 or recruitment@academiesenterprisetrust.org.

About Everest Community Academy

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+44 1256 465547

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 The new Everest Community Academy opened in September 2011. It moved to it’s current site it’s state of the art facilities and a stimulating and inspirational environment for staff and students and the wider community in 2007.

The new Academy is designed around sustainable objectives, maximising low energy design, natural ventilation and lighting.

The campus is comprised of curriculum teaching and support areas for 750 students (expandable to 900) linked with internal circulation. The scheme also provides substantial community accommodation including meeting rooms and a health and fitness suite

Access to the academy and community spaces is gained from a new public square via an internal street which is revealed at the entrance as double height glazed elevation behind a colonnade with a deep overhang. On the more rural northern side of the academy three wings of classroom accommodation are linked together with landscaped courtyards that lie parallel to and step down with the natural contours. The external landscape design and courtyards are unified by a theme of a mathematical relationship contained within the Fibonacci series which permeates nature, architecture, art, mathematics and music. Each curriculum wing contains suited curriculum areas located to create proximity of complementary uses. Shallow ramps, regularly placed internal vertical circulation including lift cores together with level threshold access provide an inclusive and accessible environment. Internal circulation is enhanced by way finding colours and graphics.

It is anticipated that the academy will provide a significant opportunity for the display of artwork. The first piece of academy artwork has been installed – a giant montage of photographs produced by local artist Linda Hasking, the Making, Hampshire County Council and students from the academy.

Our values and aims are as follows:

We will:

  • Value every individual
  • Ensure equality of opportunity for all
  • Provide an exciting, challenging, broad and balanced curriculum which provides opportunities for all students to achieve their full potential
  • Develop students’ intellectual, social, creative and physical skills
  • Foster the moral, spiritual, cultural and personal development of all students
  • Develop attitudes and skills which will enhance our students’ ability to be independent, self disciplined and confident learners
  • Nurture an ethos which is conducive to raising and recognising achievement
  • Treat our students as individuals in a climate of mutual respect
  • Equip students to be responsible citizens prepared to make a full contribution to adult life
  • Work in partnership with parents and the community
  • Maintain and develop the Academy’s physical resources and environment as a context for learning
  • Set high standards for all and continuously strive to improve the quality of everything we do
  • Regularly monitor and evaluate progress

 

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