Vice Principal
Ark All Saints Academy
Southwark
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2019
- Apply by:
- 21 April 2019
Job overview
At Ark All Saints, we believe that every child has the right to an outstanding education and every day we strive to deliver this as a staff community. Our vision and aspiration for our scholars is ‘to go to university and beyond.”
It is an exciting time to join the Academy: our first five years were focussed on establishing clear expectations for our staff, scholars and families whilst ensuring good outcomes. We are now in an exciting phase of our development as we build on the success of the previous five years and look towards our future. We are proud of our two Ofsted reports, our section 48 outstanding grading, our strong culture which has resulted in us being oversubscribed for the past 3 years.
As a church academy, we believe in developing the whole child so that they are able to live in their local community as a key member of their society. We believe it is vital that scholars have access to instrumental music lessons, a wide variety of different sporting opportunities, involvement in creative arts, as well as being able to access all that London has to offer. You will be joining a school that is firmly engaged with the community including parents and scholars, we treat our scholars as if they were our own family.
As a senior leader with our collaborative and cohesive staff body, you will directly influence the strategic development of the academy and lead an outstanding leadership team in supporting every scholar to be successful. Learning is the key to everything. If our scholars do not have good qualifications then they are unable to take part in their futures in the way we have envisaged. Our scholars need outstanding teachers and to this end all SLT including the Principal, teach.
We care about our staff – we want the best for them and out of them in order that they can provide the highest standard of education for our scholars. Our training offer to staff includes over 2 hours per week of bespoke teaching development, as an academy we have 10 days of inset per year and we also offer the opportunity for staff to attend national courses such as NPQML. Coaching and development of all staff is at our core as we strive to improve outcomes for all scholars.
Our ideal candidate is:
• Passionate and values driven
• Solutions focused and determined
• An outstanding teacher
• Able to plan and implement to completion
• Committed to the development and betterment of local communities
If this sounds like the type of school, community and staff team that you’d like to join and lead, please get in touch. Visits to our school are welcomed and encouraged, please contact Niko Falzarano n.falzarano@arkallsaintsacademy.org
To apply for this role please visit www.arkallsaintsacademy.org
The closing date for applications is 10am Tuesday 23rd April 2019
Attached documents
About Ark All Saints Academy
Ark All Saints Academy is a four-form entry academy in Camberwell, south east London, which opened in 2013 as part of Ark Schools. We are a mixed Church of England school with strong values and a Christian ethos. We welcome children aged 11-16 of all faiths and none, and ask that all members of our family respect each other’s faiths and participate in all aspects of academy life.
Our four key values are integrity, responsibility, confidence and success. Hence, it is our aim to ensure both students and teachers are confident, responsible, successful and honest in every aspect of our school’s systems. This will enable our scholars to be well prepared for the next phase of their life, whether that is to go to university or in pursuing the career of their choice. Ark All Saint Academy aims to treat pupils as individuals and is keen to work with parents to develop and nurture the talents of each pupil. We want our students to succeed academically and socially.
As part of this preparation we expect scholars to manage their path to success. We believe that creating a supportive environment will help them immensely in that. Hence we make sure everyone at our school knows and follows our safeguarding and behaviour policies. The latter outlines what is appropriate conduct, that will allow each scholar to be successful each day. We believe that good and positive behaviour is achieved through relationships and an understanding of the impact that this has on individuals. At Ark All Saints we expect all scholars to behave well, all the time. There are no excuses for poor behaviour.
At All Saints, we have created a caring and collaborative environment throughout our school and encourage our teachers to support and help each other. We hold staff development in high regard and offer twice the standard number of training days – including our network-wide ‘Hub Days’ where peers join together to learn and share best practice. There are also opportunities for online training and bespoke learning and mentoring programmes. Please see our six points on what it's like to work at Ark All Saints Academy.
Curriculum
Our curriculum is designed back from the intended end point - enabling students to reach university. Ark All Saints Academy specialises in Mathematics and all Year 7 and 8 scholars follow the Mathematics Mastery programme. At KS3 there is a strong emphasis on the teaching of core subjects, every scholar in the school, regardless of age or ability gets at least one lesson of Maths, English and Science every day. If scholars are behind in these subjects we will give them extra time and support so that they can catch up and keep up.
Ofsted report
Ark All Saints Academy was rated as good in our 2015 Ofsted inspection with outstanding areas, such as safety and behaviour of students.
"Achievement is improving in English, mathematics, science and several other subjects. Teachers focus on scholars understanding work in depth and learning how to master problems. The provision for scholars’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is outstanding. Citizenship days extend scholars’ horizons, their awareness of how to be safe and their understanding of British values. Scholars are happy and proud to be part of the academy ‘family’. They feel safe and secure and behave extremely well. They value the tolerance and respect promoted by all staff."
Read more about Ofsted's observations or see the the full report.
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