English KS3 Lead
Ark Globe Academy
Southwark
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- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2019
- Apply by:
- 25 April 2019
Job overview
Job Description: English KS3 Lead
Reports to: Subject Leader - English
Start date: September 2019
Location: Southwark, London
Contract: Permanent
Salary: AM1-AM6 + TLR2C
The Role
• To manage the professional community of subject teachers to ensure high attainment in English across Key Stage 3.
• To lead our bespoke English Mastery curriculum which enables the highest level of pupil progress and attainment
• To support the leadership of a high performing English department alongside the Subject Leader of English and the Assistant Principal
Key responsibilities
• Subject coordination in Key Stage 3 English
• Lead the professional community of subject teachers in Key Stage 3 English in the academy
• Quality teaching and learning of their subject across the academy
• Curriculum setting and assessment across the academy as agreed with the Assistant Principal and Subject Leader for English
Outcomes and Activities
Subject Coordination across the Academy
• Leadership and support of all subject teachers within Key Stage 3 English
• To ensure that systems are in place that enable all lessons in their remit area are good or better
• Leadership of the Subject Community
• Leadership of CPD particularly in relation to development of teachers of Key Stage 3 English
• Developing strong partnerships and ensuring regular and productive communication with parents
• Developing others’ practice to sustain best possible outcomes for students.
• Support Subject Leader in strategic development of the department
Teaching and Learning
• Work with the Assistant Principal to establish a subject development plan, target setting and review
• Support the Subject Leader of English in the management departmental budget and resources effectively and efficiently
• Direct and supervise support staff assigned to lessons and when required participate in related recruitment and selection activities
• Implement and adhere to the academy’s behavior management policy, ensuring the health and well-being of pupils is maintained at all times
• Maintain regular and productive communication with pupils, parents and carers, to report on progress, sanctions and rewards and all other communications
• Keep abreast of any developments within their subject area, particularly in relation to English Mastery
Curriculum setting and assessment
• Successfully deliver and manage the English Mastery Curriculum across Key Stage 3
• Work with the Assistant Principal and Subject Leader to monitor and assess teaching and learning within the subject
• Set regular, measurable and significant assessments for the student
• Establish agreement for monitoring and evaluation of student progress
• Maintain accurate pupil data that can be used to make teaching more effective
• To produce/contribute to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual and groups of pupils
• To ensure the regular setting and completion of high quality home learning activities.
• To robustly review data and achievement of students in relation to remit
Academy Culture
• Support the academy’s values and ethos by contributing to the development and implementation of policies practices and procedures
• Help create a strong academy community, characterised by consistent, orderly behaviour and caring, respectful relationships
• Help develop an academy culture and ethos that is utterly committed to achievement
• Support and work in collaboration with colleagues and other professional in and beyond the school, covering lessons and providing other support as required
• Vision aligned with Ark’s high aspirations and high expectations of self and other.
Other
• Undertake, and when required, deliver or be part of the appraisal system and relevant training and professional development
• Undertake other various responsibilities as directed by the Principal.
Person Specification: English KS3 Lead
Qualification Criteria
• Qualified to degree level and above
• Qualified to teach and work in the UK
• Evidence of professional development.
Experience
• Experience of raising attainment in a challenging classroom environment
• Experience of contributing to a high achieving department within a large and complex school environment
• Experience of delivering consistently outstanding lessons to students of all ages and abilities including KS5.
• Experience of implementing behaviour management strategies consistently and effectively
• Experience of supporting students of all ages and abilities to make excellent progress and achieve impressive examination outcomes
• Experience of leading successful enrichment and extracurricular activities which inspire and motivate learners.
Behaviours
Leadership
• Effective team worker and leader
• Ability to coach and manage staff
• Demonstrates resilience, motivation and commitment to driving up standards of achievement
• Acts as a role model to staff and students
• Vision aligned with Ark’s high aspirations, high expectations of self and others
• Genuine passion and a belief in the potential of every student
• Motivation to continually improve standards and achieve excellence
• Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils.
Leading the Curriculum
• Able to establish curriculum development, assessment, coordination and coaching
• Has good communication, planning and organisational skills
• High expectations for accountability and consistency
• Ability to design, implement and evaluate effective, imaginative and stimulating schemes of learning.
Leading the Learning
• Outstanding classroom practitioner who acts as a professional role model
• Effective and systematic behaviour management, with clear boundaries, sanctions, rewards and praise
• Demonstrates the ability to develop others’ practice to ensure that teaching is at least good in the subject area.
Teaching and Learning
• Outstanding classroom teacher with the ability to reflect on lessons and continually improve their own practice
• Effective and systematic behaviour management, with clear boundaries, sanctions, praise and rewards
• Thinks strategically about classroom practice and tailoring lessons to students needs
• Understands and interprets complex student data to drive lesson planning and student attainment
• Good communication, planning and organisational skills
• Demonstrates resilience, motivation and commitment to driving up standards of achievement
• Acts as a role model to staff and students
• Commitment to regular and on-going professional development and training to establish outstanding classroom practice.
Attached documents
About Ark Globe Academy
In 2008 Geoffrey Chaucer Secondary and Joseph Lancaster Primary school merged to join the Ark network as Ark Globe Academy. Ark Globe Academy is a mixed all through school with student age ranging from 3-18.
At Ark Globe Academy we have the highest aspirations for all our children to ensure they are prepared for university and inspired to be leaders in their community. We offer our students a first-class education based on high quality teaching and experiences outside of the classroom.
Our school was recognised by the Government in its Parliamentary Review as an example of good practice in education and students make excellent progress at KS4. All our sixth form students received a university offer with 73% of those being a top 3rd university.
Ark Globe Sixth Form is in the top 2% of all sixth forms in the country and has received the Sixth Form of the Year award at the Ark Education Summit 2019.
School Structure
Ark Globe Academy is divided into four small schools Elbrus, McKinley, Kilimanjaro and Everest, also each small school has a Dean. This ensures that personal relationships between pupils and staff develop quickly, and that a culture of excellent behaviour and shared social norms are easier to maintain.
Aims, Vision and Values
Supporting our mission is our Culture Pyramid. The pyramid sets out for students, staff and parents our purpose, our beliefs and our values. This helps to set expectations in our daily lives at Ark Globe Academy. Read more about our culture pyramid here.
Every child has the potential to succeed and there are no excuses not to achieve that success. We expect every Ark Globe Academy students to graduate from our academy with the qualifications, skills and confidence to achieve their ambitions and go on to higher education or their chosen career.
Curriculum
Our curriculum is intended to prepare students for university and to be leaders in their community.
The Ark Globe Curriculum encompasses the total experience of the student, covering a range of activities from what is learnt in the classroom to our expectations of how our students carry themselves, and make decisions, outside of it. For us, education is much more than a qualification; it is a way of being that results in an empowered young person who is able to secure a life of purpose and meaning.
We recognise that attending university is often key to this as, we believe, it provides young people with more choices. As such, the academic, pastoral and cultural curriculum has been designed to prepare students for university and to be leaders in their community. However, we also recognise that there are high quality alternatives to university, and we help students to secure these too. Whatever choice is made, we want it to be an informed one, where our students determine their own future. Read more about our curriculum here.
Our Mission: Preparing our students for university and to be leaders in their community
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Our website: https://arkglobe.org/
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