Head of Year
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Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School
Croydon
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS including Outer London Allowance + Teaching and Learning Responsibility 2b
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2022 or 1st January 2023
- Apply by:
- 11 July 2022
Job overview
Archbishop Tenison’s CE High School,
Selborne Road, Croydon CR0 5JQ
Tel: 020 8688 4014
www.archten.croydon.sch.uk
HEAD OF YEAR
Location: Croydon, Surrey
Required for: 1st September 2022 or 1st January 2023
Contract: Permanent
Salary: MPS including Outer London Allowance + Teaching and Learning Responsibility 2b
Archbishop Tenison’s CE Church of England High School is a long-established school with an excellent reputation in the community. Our school motto is ‘Academic excellence for each person in a Christian community’ and we aim to instill these values in everything we do at Tenison’s. We take the personal development of pupils, students, and staff seriously.
Pastoral care is a strong and important part of the school’s Christian educational vision. We seek to form a cohesive learning community, to educate the whole person and to provide the whole curriculum; to teach with understanding, both of the subjects we have studied and the pupils before us, and to learn with tenacity, humility and hope. Every teacher is a Form Tutor. Every year group has its own Head of Year. Every day starts and ends with Tutor Time. The weekly Tutor programme includes a whole school assembly, a year assembly, two tutor assemblies and a taught session of Personal and Social Development.
All Heads of Year belong to the school’s Pastoral Leadership Team, along with the Head of Pupil Welfare, and three Senior Pastoral Leaders. In addition to this, the school has a Pupil Support Room and an Assistant Chaplain. We enjoy good links with the Southwark Diocesan Board of Education and the Borough of Croydon. We work closely with other external agencies and providers of services for young people. We are part of a significant initiative to improve young people’s mental health. We are also a trauma-informed school.
This role is open to applicants from a teaching or non-teaching background with a suitable experience of working pastorally within a secondary school. The successful candidate will begin with next year’s Year 9.
We are looking for someone who:
• Can teach their own subject to a high standard at all key stages (or, for non-teaching member of staff, cover lessons effectively as a member of our Teaching Support team)
• Can provide strong, efficient and pastorally sensitive leadership to a year group of pupils and a team of Form Tutors, and also work effectively as a reliable colleague alongside other Pastoral Leaders
• Has credibility with both pupils and staff as someone who can manage pupils and situations well, and who does so with confidence, but also Christian humility and educational purpose
• Communicates clearly, carefully and with a good understanding of different audiences; speaks and writes with honesty and integrity; offers support, challenge and encouragement with both professionalism and hope
• Is a team player and makes good day-to-day decisions, as well as being able to contribute to long-term strategic thinking about pupils’ personal development and pastoral care
• Is knowledgeable about how to work effectively with young people and draw the best out of them in a school setting
• Liaises well with parents and other adults involved in the care of young people in education
• Is able to contribute actively to the school as a Christian community, in support of both its Christian character and its academic purpose
Exam results can be viewed via our school website - Academic Results 2021
Archbishop Tenison's is an equal opportunities employer and committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
Enhanced DBS check required.
An initial phone call or visit to explore possibilities and express interest is much encouraged. Please email Mrs Rathbone, Headteacher's PA via patoheadteacher@archten.croydon.sch.uk or call 020 8688 4014.
Attached documents
About Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School
- Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School
- Selborne Road, Croydon
- Surrey
- CR0 5JQ
- United Kingdom
The School
In 1714 the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Tenison, founded a school for some "ten poor boys and ten poor girls" on a site which has since become Croydon's popular Whitgift Shopping Centre. As we enter our 310th year, and three sites later, Archbishop Tenison's is now situated in the leafy Park Hill area of the town, a 5 minute bus ride or fifteen minutes’ walk from East Croydon Station.
Archbishop Tenison's is an 11-18 voluntary aided, mixed comprehensive school, part of the educational provision of the Anglican Diocese of Southwark and the London Borough of Croydon.
The school is well regarded locally for its high academic standards, an academic Sixth Form, the very high level of pastoral care provided for the pupils and its Christian ethos. Assemblies are an important part of school life; there is an annual Eucharist for each year group; all students take Religious Studies at GCSE, with a good number continuing to A Level.
The School caters for around 760 pupils, including the Sixth Form. The school is oversubscribed every year and as a result it is necessary for the Governors to rank applicants for the 150 places in Year 7 according to the schools admission criteria, with places allocated largely on the basis of church membership, with 20% of places allocated to feeder schools and 20% of places allocated to all. No entrance examination is set.
Many of our pupils stay on into the Sixth Form and students also join from other schools in the Borough and beyond. The Sixth Form offers a range of AS and A Level courses, together with some vocational courses. Most of the Year 13 proceed to Higher Education each year, gaining entry to top universities, including Oxford and Cambridge.
Archbishop Tenison’s aims to provide an education which is broad, balanced, relevant and accessible to the diverse and close-knit community it serves.
The school is well regarded in the area for its music, drama and sport. Students are active in debating and public speaking. We regularly achieve very impressive results in National Mathematical Challenges. There is a wide range of extra-curricular activities with around 40 different clubs and societies. Charity support also features strongly in the life of the Sixth Form and the school.
The rewarding aspect of working at Archbishop Tenison's is reflected by the way in which staff stay at the school and the high level of staff commitment to extra-curricular activities mentioned earlier. Moreover, each year there are educational journeys in the UK and abroad, residential field courses, Duke of Edinburgh and Christian
The school has featured in a number of guides to good state schools and was described as "Good" in our last OFSTED Report. The school has both a strong sense of traditional values and a readiness to embrace new ideas which are of real benefit to the pupils and students. We are looking for the person appointed to this post to be part of a school with both a distinguished history and a vision of Christian educational purpose.
Transportation
London Borough of Croydon, the largest London Borough, has good transport links, by train Central London only twenty minutes away, Gatwick 30 minutes and Brighton approximately forty minutes.
ECTs, CPD, ITTs and School Direct
At Archbishop Tenison’s we pride ourselves in our successful trainee teacher and ECT training programmes. We have a number of support staff that have taken up teacher training, becoming very successful subject teachers, heads of year and subject leaders. Every academic year we have numerous PGCE, School Direct and Work Experience students either training with us or using our School as one of their professional placements.
Southeast Learning Alliance (SELA) - An Initial Teacher Training Programme
At Archbishop Tenison’s we are in partnership with a number of schools in the local area to provide high quality, bespoke training opportunities for all our trainees. The Initial Teacher Training packages offered by SELA allow prospective teachers to train in a dynamic educational setting across fourteen highly different but successful schools in the Croydon and Crawley areas. The Alliance comprises seven comprehensive secondary schools and seven primary schools, all of whom are working in partnership to help produce high quality and well-trained teachers of the future. The in-school training students receive is complemented by the accredited provider, where the learning is subject specific and helps to fully prepare students for delivery of the National Curriculum. All of the training that students engage with is aligned with the Core Content Framework, ensuring a smooth transition into being an Early Careers Teacher following the Early Career Framework.
More information can be found at: https://sela-teacher-training.org/
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