Deputy Curriculum Leader of English
Holly Lodge High School College of Science
Sandwell
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS + TLR 1A (£7,471)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2015
- Apply by:
- 20 April 2015
Job overview
We are looking for an experienced and highly committed Deputy Curriculum Leader to assist in the coordination and management of the English Department at Holly Lodge School.
This position is available to more experienced colleagues and Holly Lodge offers excellent CPD opportunities. It would be ideal as a stepping stone for those who wish to progress to departmental leadership or lead practitioner status in the future.
Holly Lodge School is a mixed 11-19 Specialist Science College. Currently it has 1300 students on roll, but this is increasing steadily due to the rapid improvement that the school has successfully made. The school is part of the ‘building schools for the future’ programme with a new £23.5 million school that completed in September 2011 offering state of the art teaching and learning facilities.
Holly Lodge School is a thriving and exciting school, which has made significant progress in recent years. Bench mark data shows, in general, an upward trend with a record 50% 5 A*-C including English and Mathematics passes in 2013. The number of 5 A*-C passes reached 81%. Whilst we incurred a dip in results last year, 40% 5 A*-C including English & Mathematics, progress levels continue to improve. Levels of progress in English are well above the national average.
The school was described by OFSTED as a ‘Good’ school with ‘dynamic leadership’, ‘high quality teaching’ and effective support systems. (Ofsted 2013)
For further information about the school, the post, and to apply, please visit our website or contact Mike Sherwin at Hays Education.
Closing date: Monday 20th April 2015
T 0116 2532389 or 07525 889925
E hollylodge@hays.com
W www.hays.co.uk/jobs/hollylodge
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff & volunteers to share this commitment
The post is subject to an enhanced DBS Disclosure
COMMITTED TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
About Holly Lodge High School College of Science
- Holly Lodge High School College of Science
- Holly Lane, Sandwell, Smethwick
- West Midlands
- B67 7JG
- United Kingdom
Holly Lodge High School is a state comprehensive secondary school and sixth form for children aged 11-19 located in the town of Smethwick, West Midlands. The school serves a diverse community with high indicators of economic disadvantage.
Headteacher
Mr Imran Iqbal
Vision and Values
The vision for Holly Lodge is encapsulated in three words: Ambition, Opportunity and Community. We believe that every child, regardless of their background or starting point, is entitled to a world-class education in the best that has been thought, said and made, and that they should be equipped for joining the great conversations of humankind, shaping the future and living truly rewarding and meaningful lives. We believe in the power of expertly developed, subject specialist curriculum, alongside research-informed teaching approaches, high expectations for behaviour, and excellent pastoral care in achieving this vision. We are ambitious for the experience of our staff as well as our students: in terms of well-being, professional development and career progression. At Holly Lodge there is no written marking of books, no written reports and no graded lesson observations: we believe in stripping away performative documents and activities that have little impact, in order to make time for the things that really make a difference. We believe that the key to staff wellbeing is sensible workload and a positive professional culture, and we place these at the heart of everything we do.
If you share our values and want to be part of a team which champions ambition, opportunity and community, then please see our applications pack for more information. We look forward to hearing from you.
Ofsted
“Underpinning the strong progress made in many subjects, and especially in English, is the rapid development of students’ literacy and language skills. Students make particularly impressive gains in their reading skills and in their general interest in and enjoyment of literature. ‘We all read every night’, said one Year 9 boy browsing through the very well-stocked shelves of the school’s large library, before explaining to the inspector why he loved the books of Roald Dahl.”
The full report into Holly Lodge High School can be found here.
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