Deputy Head (S5/6)
The Glasgow Academy
Glasgow
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- £60,581
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- August 2018
- Apply by:
- 6 February 2018
Job overview
For August 2018 we seek a Deputy Head (S5/6): Head of Sixth Form Salary £60,581
If you are a caring, dynamic and inspirational leader seeking to make a real difference to the attainment and intellectual ethos of a highly successful school, this could be just the post for you. The Glasgow Academy is an ambitious, welcoming and forward-thinking independent HMC co-educational day school of nearly 1400 pupils aged 3-18. We have long enjoyed a fine reputation for our standards and for our successful young people, yet we are anything but old school. We strive to be the best, so if you can motivate our teenagers to raise their attainment higher still and can develop the intellectual life of our school, we'd like to hear from you. You'll learn more about us if you email or phone below. The closing date is Tuesday 6 February. A letter of application stating clearly what you can offer the school, full CV and names, addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers of two referees who can comment professionally on your teaching and leadership skills should be sent to the Rector, The Glasgow Academy, Colebrooke Street, Glasgow G12 8HE, from whom further details may be obtained (email recpa@tga.org.uk or call 0141 342 5485). You can check out our new inspection report on our website: www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk
The Glasgow Academicals' War Memorial Trust is an educational charity registered in Scotland, Charity No SCO15638
About The Glasgow Academy
About The Glasgow Academy
The Glasgow Academy is an ambitious, warm, welcoming, thriving and forward-thinking fully co-educational HMC independent day school of around 1600 pupils aged 3-18. It is highly popular, growing in a planned way over the last 14 years. It consists of the Senior School, of around 800 pupils of 11-18 years of age, and a Preparatory School (which has three sites and also around 800 children, counting all those in Nursery/Kindergarten).
The school gains excellent SQA exam results, and raising academic results further is the central target of its School Improvement Plan. Our performance in SQA exams is consistently amongst the best at independent schools and, for example, in August 2024 73% of Highers in S5 were awarded a grade A, and 96% of the Highers sat were passed. In August 2024, also achieved our best ever performance at National 5 with a pass rate of 99% ( 86% awarded A grades). In S6, our pass rate is 92% for Advanced Higher with 51% of entries awarded grade A.
Beyond academic achievement we want all of our pupils to thrive and contribute to a rapidly developing modern world and to do that we must ensure they leave The Academy with a socially conscious, innovative and global outlook. Our aim is that we provide our pupils with rich learning experiences that best prepare them for life after The Academy also places value on the importance of sustainable education for future generations. Through further development of our local, national and global partnerships our aim is that we have a greater impact on lives within and out with The Academy community.
The school's latest £15 million new building won Best Building in Scotland 2016, the UK's richest architectural prize. The school has invested around £27 million in its facilities over the last decade or so and continues to invest heavily and strategically.
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