Key Stage 3 Achievement Leader
Kettlethorpe High School
Wakefield
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS + TLR 1B £10,170 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 17 May 2021
Job overview
At Kettlethorpe High School, achievement is everything.
For every child.
For many people, “every child matters” is a slogan. For us, it is an ethos. We believe that every pupil – irrespective of background or ability – should enjoy an exceptional education, becoming the best person they can be. That is why we champion innovation in teaching and learning, and why we offer a remarkably rich programme of extracurricular activities, spanning sport, music, culture and charity fundraising. It is also why we need you to take achievement at Key Stage 3 to the next level.
Leading our non-teaching year managers and their academic colleagues, you will make certain that our pupils come first in everything we do and enjoy every day here to the full. It is not just about exam results, important as they are – we want to create rounded human beings with a passion for life and all its possibilities, and we will look to you to unlock our pupils’ potential and fire their enthusiasm.
We are a large, successful, growing school with excellent resources, including strong alternative curriculum arrangements to meet pupils’ individual needs, so you will be building on considerable success. With a deep commitment to reflective learning and teaching practice and strong emphasis on professional development, we will give you all the support you require to mould your team into first-class practitioners who can create exceptional futures. We will also give you everything you need to accelerate your journey into senior management – so we are looking for someone with real potential.
Your career to date will have embraced both hands-on teaching and academic leadership, giving you the skills to devise and implement an inspiring strategic development plan for Key Stage 3. Team-oriented, resilient and above all personable and engaging, you will be ready to do whatever it takes to transform the way we think and work – and enhance outcomes for our pupils in the broadest sense.
In return, we can offer you an exciting future in a school where learning is central to life. You will also benefit from an enviable location, just outside Leeds and within easy reach of Sheffield and many other locations via the M1, offering you the opportunity to relocate almost anywhere within Yorkshire’s stunning countryside.
For further information and to apply, please visit kettlethorpehigh.co.uk/vacancies
Closing date: Noon on Monday 17th May 2021
Interview date: Monday 24th May 2021
Attached documents
About Kettlethorpe High School
- Kettlethorpe High School
- Kettlethorpe Hall Drive, Standbridge Lane, Sandal, Wakefield
- West Yorkshire
- WF2 7EL
- United Kingdom
About Kettlethorpe High School
Kettlethorpe High School is a large comprehensive school in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. We have 1,700 pupils aged 11–16 and often see year group entries of between 330 to 360 pupils.
The school opened in 1965, and we have benefitted from considerable capital building improvements over the years. Recently, the school has had a new MFL block and sports studio built and also financed our own all-weather 3G pitch for school and community use.
Pupils benefit from a rich and broad curriculum offer. At Key Stage 4, our English Baccalaureate entry and actual figures are the very best in Wakefield. In 2021, the entry was 79% with 61% achieving passes across the EBacc suite of subjects. At this school, pupils succeed and do well. Progression rates are impressive.
Across the school, the wider life of the school and extra-curricular offer is second to none. Pupils and staff engage with a rich extra-curricular offer and we are very proud of our sports, arts and performing arts offer. It adds a real richness to our school community.
Our pupils are great and have lots to say about their school. They support and represent their community well. Over the last 9 years, they have raised over £103,000 for Children in Need. Most years, they raise between £10,000 and £15,000 for CiN and other charities.
Teachers at the school work hard to support all our pupils. They are proud of their successes and involvement with the school.
As a school community, we recognise that schools are more than just Ofsted judgements. We do what we do to benefit our pupil community first and foremost. That said, we are more than a ‘good’ school and valued the comment made by one lead inspector… ‘There is something very special going on at this school.’ We agree!
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