Head of Media Studies
Jo Richardson Community School
Dagenham
- Expired
- Salary:
- £28,660 to £47,298 (includes ILA) – TLR 1a (£7,622)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/01/2019
- Apply by:
- 25 September 2018
Job overview
JRCS
This is a great opportunity to join a highly successful school as part of a friendly and very hard working department. Established as a brand new school in 2002, we moved into our award-winning £30 million accommodation in 2005. The school is located within easy reach of central London via the District Line and yet just minutes by car from the Essex countryside.
In 2016/17, JRCS achieved another set of outstanding outcomes at GCSE and A Level. The school’s KS4 Progress 8 score was +0.45 which was significantly above national average. At KS5, the progress score was also positive with the average grade for A Levels a strong C+. For 2017/18, we are again predicting a positive Progress 8 score and our average grade at A Level has risen to B-. This is a strong indication of the high quality of teaching and learning at the school. Our Sixth Form provision works in close partnership with four other local schools, to deliver a high quality Post-16 education for our students.
We pride ourselves on being a truly inclusive school and this is actively underpinned by our motto ‘Success for All’. Academic rigour runs alongside a commitment to extra-curricular activities and we offer our students a wide range of opportunities to pursue their studies both inside and outside the classroom. Our extensive range of extra-curricular activities, together with trips to Rome, Berlin, France, Borneo, the WWI trenches in Ypres, skiing in the USA, and our highly regarded Duke of Edinburgh programme, is second to none and ensures all students get the chance to extend their academic, social and cultural experiences outside of the classroom. New staff are encouraged to participate in trips.
The school’s most recent OFSTED report described the school as good with outstanding leadership and governance and outstanding spiritual, moral, social and cultural provision; this judgement was reinforced at our last Section 8 inspection in November 2017.
The school prides itself on providing staff with the most appropriate and effective support to ensure that their professional development needs are fully met and that there is a high level of challenge in the opportunities they are offered. Wednesday afternoons are devoted to CPD and the school has a very strong record of developing staff; nearly half of the Heads of Department and Heads of Year joined the school as NQTs, as did two members of the Senior Leadership Team. Please visit the “join us as a member of staff” page of our award-winning website to learn more about what makes JRCS such a special place to work.
Media at JRCS
JRCS have a rare and really exciting opportunity to appoint a motivated, dynamic and passionate Head of Media Studies to lead a highly successful department. Media is thriving at JRCS; we have a cohort of over 120 students in Key Stage 4 and 30 A Level students who we see flourish year on year. For the past 5 years our results have been significantly above national average, with 85% of GCSE students securing grades A* - C in 2018. We currently teach the new Eduqas specification at GCSE and A Level, and the students are really enjoying learning a range of set media products from ‘Pokémon Go’ at GCSE, to ‘Straight Outta Compton’ at A Level. We would love to hear from you if you feel that you could take the department from strength to strength and ensure the students continue to achieve great things within the subject!
High quality induction, including a two week NQT school-based immersion programme in July, is available to all staff at JRCS as part of our strong commitment to continuing professional development.
Please log onto our website www.jorichardson.org.uk for further details about the school, this post, a link to our recent Ofsted report and the application process itself. All applications should be made online by clicking the ‘Apply Now' link. Please contact Margaret Stone on recruitment@jorichardson.org.uk if you wish to arrange a visit to the school.
JRCS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment The successful applicant will be required to apply for an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Closing date: Midnight on Tuesday 25th September 2018
Interviews: Friday 5th October 2018
Headteacher: Ges Smith
Patron: Rt Hon Baroness Betty Boothroyd
Castle Green, Gale St, Dagenham, Essex, RM9 4UN
Attached documents
About Jo Richardson Community School
- Jo Richardson Community School
- Castle Green, Gale Street, Dagenham
- Essex
- RM9 4UN
- United Kingdom
Vision of the School
At The Jo Richardson Community School we are committed to reaching the highest standards in everything we do. We want all our students to achieve the best possible examination results as well as have the opportunity to take part in the widest range of extra-curricular activities. We strongly believe this can only happen in a well-ordered and respectful environment where only the highest standards of behaviour are acceptable, and where all our teachers are fully committed and able to ensure our goals become a reality.
Success For All
Central to our work is the motto ‘Success For All’ which underpins our belief that every individual has the opportunity to gain high quality academic qualifications. These enable students to progress to college, university or a good job when they leave us. The curriculum we offer provides both a wide range of traditional academic subjects as well as more practical work-related courses.
We also want our students to develop opportunities to succeed outside the classroom. Our extra-curricular provision provides a range of opportunities for achievement that will develop confidence and build self-esteem. Our student council also plays an important role within the school, and is just one example of how we seek to develop our students’ leadership skills.
None of this can be achieved, however, if the ethos isn’t right. We believe it is our responsibility to make sure students feel happy and secure at school. We do not tolerate any disruptive behaviour that has an effect upon the progress of others.
We operate a bullying and behaviour policy based on zero tolerance. In the rare event that a student is involved in bullying or in disrupting lessons they are automatically excluded from school and not allowed back into circulation until we are confident that problems will not recur. We make no apology for the hard line we take in this respect – students need to know they can come to school free from the fear of intimidation, and where their lessons will be focused on achieving academic success.
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