Assistant Headteacher ( Raising Achievement and Ethos)
Wood Green School
Witney, Oxfordshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- L12-16
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 22 April 2018
Job overview
Wood Green School is looking for a future school leader to fill this crucial new role in our Leadership Team. Wood Green is a true comprehensive school in the thriving town of Witney, 10 miles west of Oxford. With a growing roll and reputation, we are focussed on improving outcomes for all our learners and raising aspiration, building on strong values, the good behaviour of students, a vast array of opportunities and a strong belief in creating an education that develops academic excellence and personal development. This is a unique opportunity to play a lead role in our journey and to make real difference to the lives of young people.
We are looking for an inspiring leader who has:
• the ability to inspire students of all ages and abilities
• a passion for creating a strong ethos that enables all students and staff to thrive • a track record of leading colleagues in a team or across a school to improve standards
• the ability to think creatively, strategically and analytically
Wood Green can offer:
• a school based on strong values: Learning, Effort, Aspiration, Respect, Nurture, Wellbeing
• the willingness to engage in fresh approaches and the capacity to improve
• a supportive team of staff and governors with the potential and desire to be truly outstanding
• a parent body keen to support the school
• a belief in partnership
• a desire to raise aspiration
• an excellent opportunity develop your leadership skills
Wood Green School is a founding school of the Acer Trust. The Trust provides excellent wider leadership opportunities through collaboration with schools that share our values. The closing date for applications is Monday 23rd April 2018.
Please visit our website at www.wgswitney.org.uk/vacancies for details of the application process.
We strongly encourage potential applicants to visit us. There will be an opportunity to tour the school and to meet the Headteacher to discuss this post further at 9am Tuesday 17th April or 10am Wednesday 18th April. Other times can be arranged by agreement. If you would like to attend one of these visits, please email Faith Green, HR Officer at vacancies@wgswitney.org.uk or call her on 01993 702355.
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About Wood Green School
Wood Green School is a mixed, comprehensive, secondary school with sixth form situated in Witney, Oxfordshire. It is an academy converter operating under The Acer Trust, which was co-founded by four Oxfordshire schools: Wood Green School, Chalgrove Primary School, Icknield Community College and Matthew Arnold School.
Wood Green School provides 1,335 places for students between the ages of 11 and 18 when fully subscribed. It converted to academy status in February 2017.
Headteacher
Rob Shadbolt
Values and vision
Wood Green School subscribes to the Acer Trust values of trust, equity and opportunity, believing these are essential for a successful collaboration and for providing high-quality education for all students through these important years of their lives.
The secondary school also uses the LEARN Well values of learning, effort, aspiration, respect, nurture and wellbeing to capture the most important aspects of an excellent education. High expectations are always placed on students, and they are helped to achieve these in a happy and supportive environment.
Ofsted report
“Leaders at all levels, teachers and governors have effectively brought about improvement across the school. Leaders make very effective use of information on students’ progress to identify where strengths and weaknesses life. Subject leaders make a positive contribution to improvement by closely monitoring the quality of teaching in their departments. Students’ social, spiritual, moral and cultural development is promoted effectively across the school and strongly contributes to the school’s caring ethos.”
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