Director of Maths
Thurstable School
Essex
- £58,959 - £60,488 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Point 10-11
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2024
- Apply by:
- 6 May 2024
Job overview
We are a vibrant and ambitious school committed to building knowledge and character in our students. Our values of Aspire, Respect, and Endeavour run through everything we do. We believe in the power of character education and the continual pursuit of excellence in teaching and learning.
We are seeking an exceptional individual to join our team as the Director of Maths. The successful candidate will lead from the front, fostering a culture of challenge and support among all stakeholders. As a committed advocate for character education, you will uphold our values and drive excellence in teaching and learning.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop a high-quality, knowledge-based curriculum, ensuring inclusivity and ambition for all students.
- Quality-assure teaching and learning through various methods, sharing best practices across the department.
- Take responsibility for student progress and outcomes, with a focus on SEND and PPG performance.
- Lead the department's performance and improvement efforts, managing resources and staff efficiently.
- Uphold the school's ethos of diversity, inclusivity, and equality of opportunity, safeguarding the welfare of all pupils.
Why join us?
- We are committed that classrooms should be disruption free so that every minute counts and are adopting a centralised approach to behaviour centred on a warm/strict philosophy and shared routines across the school.
- We think you, the teacher, is the expert. We promote the importance of teacher led lessons based on brilliant subject knowledge, great explanations and skilful questioning.
- Our commitment to genuine development. Our evidence based model of teaching is based on the work of Rosenshine and Lemov, and from September all teaching staff (including the Headteacher) will receive coaching feedback at least every fortnight.
- We are committed to staff wellbeing and adopting sensible approaches to workload.
- We recognise the efforts and achievements of all our staff on a weekly basis and never take anyone’s work for granted.
- We are on a journey of which you can be a driving part. Our school improvement groups, led by non-SLT members, are crucial to driving change in the school.
We believe this is an exciting time to join the school and help our students reach their undoubted full potential. If you can dream big, work hard and also have a sense of fun, we genuinely believe that you will really enjoy working at Thurstable.
Join us in our mission to empower students and transform lives through education.
We welcome visits or conversations with prospective applicants. To arrange a tour or a confidential phone call, please contact us directly.
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and all posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check.
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About Thurstable School
THE SCHOOL
A warm welcome to Thurstable School, a school built on ethos and with a clear aim of building knowledge and growing character. At the heart of everything we do lies our core values of aspire, respect and endeavour, values that are lived and not just laminated.
We are at an exciting time of our development as we strive to be a school of character and academic excellence and are looking forward to helping your child become the best version of themselves and achieve great academic outcomes whilst developing good character.
In the Summer of 2022 the GCSE results were “significantly above average” and in the top 20% of the country (Department for Education) and we are unashamedly clear that academic scholarship, reading and writing are at the heart of our curriculum.
We have the wonderful Thurstable Loves To Read programme as well as our innovative Morning Meeting programme based upon cognitive science and are committed that all students leave us with a reading age that matches their chronological age.
Equally important to our ethos is growing character and one of our mantras is “true character is doing the right thing when no one is looking”. We believe that character is taught, caught and sought and are committed to providing as many opportunities for the students to make memories from foreign exchanges, musical productions, Duke of Edinburgh schemes and numerous sporting opportunities.
We are committed to our mission statement of "Building Knowledge, Growing Character". We won’t get everything right, but we will always be honest, be led by our values and learn from the best schools in the country to make ours better.
OUR VALUES
Our core values ARE Thurstable. The values of Aspire, Respect and Endeavour are part of our DNA and inform all of our interactions and decisions at the school.
These values underpin our daily routines and are experienced in everything from the calm and purposeful atmosphere to the way our students interact with each other, staff and guests. We actively teach and role model these values and are very much part of our unique character curriculum.
We use the idea of 'Phronesis' to guide us. Phronesis is practical wisdom, a virtue which allows us to make the right decisions at the right time for the right reasons.
We expect our students and staff to use phronesis in their daily life at Thurstable.
ASPIRE
We aspire to the best jobs, college and university places
- We aim to achieve the highest outcomes possible
- We pursue excellence and seek recognition
- We take risks and love learning
- We are curious and ask questions
RESPECT
We respect ourselves, others and the environment
- We are respectful, polite and courteous at all times
- We are on time and we have the right equipment
- We treat others in our diverse community as we wish to be treated
- We always follow instructions: first time, every time
- We are kind
ENDEAVOUR
We work hard to achieve success
- We focus on the tasks in hand and tackle them conscientiously
- We have the resilience, tenacity and grit to keep going when others give up
- We represent the school and participate fully in school life
- We support others to achieve
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