Head of Sixth Form
The Kingston Academy
Kingston UponThames
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2019
- Apply by:
- 4 October 2018
Job overview
The Board of Trustees is looking to appoint a Head of Sixth Form to define an all-encompassing vision for TKA’s new Sixth Form and to establish and deliver the Sixth Form in September 2020. This represents a clear challenge and exceptional opportunity for career progression and enhancement for the successful candidate.
The post holder will need to deliver an outstanding Sixth Form for the local community, ensuring that it is both true to the school’s inclusive vision as well as stretching all to achieve their full potential. The successful candidate would take up their role in September 2019, one year prior to the launch of the Sixth Form.
We invite applicants from all subject areas.
The Kingston Academy is a new Secondary School in North Kingston, which opened for the first time in September 2015 with a cohort of Year 7 pupils. The school will grow annually by an additional year group until 2021. TKA has received a substantial capital grant for the refurbishment of the existing educational facilities and for additional new modern buildings. Our mission is to provide a world-class education for all the young people within our community to ensure that every pupil is safe, happy and succeeds. By September 2019 we will have around 900 pupils across the five year groups of 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11.
Candidates wishing to visit the school prior to application and meet with the Head Teacher, Sophie Cavanagh, are welcomed and encouraged. To arrange a visit please contact Justine Free, PA to the Head Teacher on 0208 465 6208 or email jfree@thekingstonacademy.org. However, if you are unable to visit the school prior to the deadline, your application will not be disadvantaged in any sense.
The successful candidate should possess the following attributes:
- Good honours degree
- QTS
- The ability to lead, inspire, motivate and support pupils
- Strategic insight and excellent project management skills
- Broad base of subject knowledge
- Proven track record and experience of post 16 education
- Exceptional communication skills
- Ability to teach and inspire Key Stage 5 students
- Successful training, teaching practice and / or successful prior teaching experience
- Vision of successful classroom practice
- Possess a range of teaching and learning strategies
- Ability to work effectively as part of a curriculum / subject team
- Effective ICT skills
- Ability to maintain good classroom behaviour
- Effective organisational skills e.g. lesson preparation, scheme of work development, meeting deadlines, good record keeping etc.
- Effective inter-personal skills
Candidates are invited to submit their application online via TKA's careers portal. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to take part in a preliminary assessment day on the 8th October when they will be asked to deliver a 15 minute presentation outlining their vision for our new Sixth Form.
Attached documents
About The Kingston Academy
The Kingston Academy is an ambitious and outstanding new mixed, mainstream secondary school located in a newly renovated traditional school building and significant, state-of-the-art new extension in Kingston upon Thames, near to the River Thames.
The Kingston Academy was established in 2015 by the Kingston Educational Trust, a partnership between Kingston University, Kingston College and the Royal Borough of Kingston. The school initially opened with a single cohort of Year 7 pupils and has grown every year with an additional year group. It will eventually comprise all year groups including a Sixth Form in 2021-22.
The school's first full Ofsted inspection took place in May 2018 and the resulting report declared the school to be outstanding in all categories with no areas identified as needing improvement.
The announcement of the new cohort for September 2019 revealed the school to be heavily oversubscribed, drawing from a catchment area of less than 1km from the school.
Headteacher
Ms. Sophie Cavanagh
Values and vision
The Kingston Academy has an ethos of inclusion, where all are welcomed and every individual is valued for who they are and what they can bring to the school. The focus on learning and communication is powered by a STEM-focused curriculum (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
The secondary school helps to build a strong sense of identity, encouraging students to be global citizens and to value their place in the wider world. Teachers are offered continuing professional development, which allows them to keep up with new technologies and best practices.
'Teaching successfully challenges all groups of pupils to aim high and achieve their best.' Ofsted, June 2018
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