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Aspiring to Headship

Aspiring to Headship

King Solomon Academy

Westminster

Salary:
Highly competitive and negotiable depending on experience
Job type:
Full Time, Fixed Term
Start date:
ASAP
Apply by:
30 March 2015

Job overview

Join a development programme in an Ark school and prepare for headship

Contract: Fixed term for two years in the first instance

King Solomon 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 have much to be proud of, but our ambitions for the future mean we cannot stand still.

If you share our unwavering belief in the potential of every child, then we want to hear from you.

The Aspiring to Headship programme:

Aspiring to Headship aims to develop the school leaders of the future. Through the programme, senior leaders, with a proven track record, are equipped with the skills needed for their first headship position.

The programme starts by assessing your current strengths and areas for development. This information is then used to help design a placement that is bespoke to you. You will receive coaching by outstanding leaders and have the opportunity to experience high-performing schools inside and outside of the Ark network, including exceptional schools in the US. We’ll continue your training through personalised career support, comprehensive feedback on your placement and preparation for headship interviews.

If you are an outstanding practitioner with an established reputation for raising standards in a challenging environment coupled with relentless drive and resilience then we want to hear from you. This provides a real opportunity for an ambitious individual to benefit from the coaching of an inspirational Head and excellent training with one of the country’s top performing academy networks.

Ultimately, we want to prepare you for a headship position within the Ark network.

The best way to find out more about KSA, is to come visit.

If you are an aspiring leader and want to find out more, please get in touch with Corrina O’Beirne on corrina.o’beirne@arkonline.org  or 0203 116 6310. To apply please go to https://application.arkschools.net/vacancy/9rvfG76N by Monday 30th March, 11am.

Deadline: Monday 30th March, 11am

For more great opportunities across the Ark network, please visit arkschools.org/careers. We value diversity and are committed to safeguarding and promoting child welfare. The successful candidate will be subject to DBS and any other relevant employment checks.

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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