Director of Learning (Mathematics) / Assistant Head
Wapping High School
Tower Hamlets
- Expired
- Salary:
- L8 – 12 (inner London allowance) - starting point dependent on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2015
- Apply by:
- 17 April 2015
Job overview
Are you interested in working in a dynamic and innovative new school and help shape its curriculum?
Do you want to help develop its culture as part of an ambitious dedicated and enterprising team?
Can you add value and bring energy that will give us the capacity and leadership expertise to develop as the school grows?
The governors are seeking to appoint a creative, strategic and inspirational leader to join the new senior leadership team and secure the next level of school performance and achievement.
Director of Learning (Mathematics) / Assistant Head:
- An outstanding teacher and successful middle leader
- Passionate about developing the whole child
- Unrelenting in their belief of the potential of children
- A role model and coach to other members of the school community
- Excited by the opportunities presented by different pedagogies and technologies
About the school:
- Inclusive multicultural 11 – 16 Free school located in East London
- Cutting edge pedagogy and curriculum
- An innovative digital and flexible 21st century learning environment
- Small school with only 84 students in each year group
- Working with leading educationalist in the UK and abroad to develop new approaches for 21st learning
We offer:
- Competitive salaries based on experience and skills
- The chance to learn from the best practitioners in this country and around the world
- Outstanding CPD and collaborative working
- The chance to take on a broad range of senior leadership roles in a relatively new Free School
- A supportive and vibrant professional community
We are looking for an ambitious, passionate and committed individual who wants to progress their leadership career in a unique setting that believes that learning never stops. An interest to lead data management will be an advantage. If you relish the challenge of this exciting post and want to work in a 21st century learning environment that is at the cutting edge of education, working in partnership with leading national organisations, this could be your ideal next opportunity.
Visits to the school are warmly welcome as are informal discussions with our Head, Mrs Karin Rowsell. Please contact the school on 020 3597 3970 or via email pauladaley@wappinghigh.org if you wish to arrange either of these.
The closing date for applications is Friday 17 April 2015 (noon), with interviews scheduled in the week starting 20 April 2015.
For an application pack please visit our careers page on our website www.wappinghigh.org/careers
Wapping High is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be required to undertake a criminal DBS check.
About Wapping High School
Ethos and Values
Wapping High School promotes an inclusive ethos, in which diversity of need and ability is acknowledged and nurtured. Every aspect of school life will be guided by a strong ethical code, which encourages social awareness to help students understand and meet with confidence the challenges of a diverse and changing society and the world of work. This isl be achieved by establishing a Learning Pathway for each student.
Wapping High School is small and we have a strong sense of school community. Students are divided into ‘houses’ to encourage interaction across the school. Teachers know all their students individually. Families form part of the school community and are fully involved with their children’s education. Outcome-focused home-school contracts are made with both students and parents & carers.
Wapping High School’s ethos and values ensure that children are safe, healthy, positively contribute to their whole community, and achieve economic and academic well-being in adult life. Importantly, all students enjoy attending school.
Premises
Wapping High School is be located at 153 Commercial Road, London, E1 2DA, 15 minutes walk from the centre of Wapping. This former office block has been extensively renovated and reconfigured. The cutting-edge redesign is in line with Wapping High School’s commitment to provide personalised teaching methodologies to engage learning and develop inquisitive minds. Conversion of empty office space for education is successful and widespread in other parts of the world. The building includes specialist facilities for science, dance, drama, music and performance and a 5th floor roof garden with spectacular views across London.
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