Director of Learning for Science
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Blackburn with Darwen
- £50,151 - £55,338 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- L8 - L12
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 13 May 2021
Job overview
We require a Director of Learning for Science to lead a committed group of teachers.
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy is a larger than average 11-18 academy within Blackburn with Darwen. We are part of Aldridge Education and have 1300 students on roll. Our sixth form is in the top 10% of all sixth forms nationally. Our aim is to ‘get better faster’ and secure an exceptional level of education, which all of our students deserve. Our passion is about realising our students’ full potential regardless of background.
The competitive salary reflects the importance of this role and our commitment to developing leadership. This is an opportunity to lead the Science faculty to the next level and for the successful candidate to be fully prepared for future senior leadership, having made their mark on a key faculty. We are looking for a committed, enthusiastic leader who can develop a strategic vision for Science and who can ensure we are continually improving. Someone who:
• really loves their subject and is an excellent classroom practitioner
• is positive
• builds teams
• is collaborative
• shares good practice
• is committed to securing high standards of learning and teaching
• gets things done
• has a clear curriculum vision
• is very capable and is able to lead and inspire with confidence
• can develop staff so that our students are inspired and achieve great outcomes.
• will lead on the 'get better faster' approach to coaching for their faculty (full training will be available)
• is resilient
• is committed to wanting the very best for our students
• is committed to 'levelling the playing field' for students with disadvantage
If this is you, we look forward to hearing from you.
We offer:
• coaching, support and line management from an experienced senior leader
• the support of a trust lead for Science
• professional progression opportunities including NPQs
• dedicated coaching time as part of your timetable
• measures to reduce staff workload such as centralised detentions and a sensible feedback policy focused on whole class feedback
• collaborative and co-planning time within the school day
• an employee assistance programme.
Apply online by the closing date of midday on Thursday 13th May 2021 to sam.grimshaw@daca.uk.com. Interviews will take place the week commencing 17th May 2021.
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About Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy (DACA) opened in the predecessor school buildings in September 2008, moving to its new town centre location in September 2010. The state of the art building features an entrepreneurship bridge, Darwen Creates. The Academy Sixth Form brought a new education offer for post 16 students with the outstanding new facilities at the Academy designed to be accessible to the wider Darwen community.
In 2011, its third year after opening, DACA was a finalist in the Academy of the Year category at the Education Investor Awards. On 11th April 2011 Prince William and Kate Middleton officially opened the Academy buildings in one of the last official engagements they carried out before their wedding later that month. Prince William praised the “wonderful, innovative, ground-breaking” academy and stated “I am convinced the academy will transform the lives of families in Darwen and, through its example, countless others elsewhere.”
In 2013 the Academy saw record A level Results with a pass rate of 100%, and celebrated another first for the Academy when Khushna Sulaman-Butt secured her place at Ruskin College, Oxford to read Fine Art – the first DACA student ever to progress to Oxford University.
2013 also saw DACA achieve a Good rating in all aspects of an OFSTED Inspection.
By 2016 the percentage of students achieving 5 or more GCSE passes at A* to C grade (including maths and English Language or Literature) had risen to 65% while the A Level pass rate and vocational equivalent pass rate at the Academy were both 100%, and at A Level only 46% achieved the highest A*-B grades. A record number of 68 of our students applied for and got their first choice of University.
There is regular emphasis and assessment of the specialisms of entrepreneurship and sport at the Academy. DACA has developed the characteristics of entrepreneurship which are embedded across all aspects of Academy life to raise the potential of students.
In 2015 the local business community recognised the impact of the Academy’s commitment to developing entrepreneurship with the Enterprise in Education Award at the Hive Business Awards 2015. Weeks later the Academy was named Secondary School of the Year by the Lancashire Telegraph and in October the Academy was named one eleven schools from eleven countries across Europe to have won the Entrepreneurial School of the Year Award 2015, a national and European recognition of the best schools championing entrepreneurship education.
In November 2016 the Academy received a British Council International School Award recognising its “outstanding development of the international dimension in the curriculum”. The award recognised Darwen Academy’s long-term commitment to improving education and enhancing understanding of different cultures through its programme of overseas visits and project work in disadvantaged communities.
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