Teacher of Art
Bourne End Academy
Bourne End
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS / UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required October 2018 or January 2019
- Apply by:
- 29 October 2018
Job overview
We are currently seeking to appoint an Art Teacher to our academy. The post holder will be a motivated teacher capable of adding to an ambitious Upper school in its fourth year of continual and successful growth and achievement.
The successful candidate will join a thriving and dynamic Art Department and team and will be well qualified to teach to all key stages. Importantly, you will have the opportunity to raise standards and shape outcomes for all students, whilst personally benefitting from excellent professional development.
The successful candidate will play an active role in managing the behaviour and pastoral well-being of our students and help them to work to achieve to their full potential in all aspects of their school and future life.
Bourne End Academy is an ambitious school, defined equally by its high academic aspirations as for its warmth and inclusivity. The school provides a good all round education for our students, supporting them in their studies at school and encouraging and developing their future aspirations and goals. Our school has gone through a period of significant and positive change, as our 2017 and soon to be published 2018 results show, to ensure the school has a track record of achieving consistently good academic outcomes for all. Bourne End Academy has recently entered into a new sponsorship programme with E-ACT, a nationally recognised Academies Trust, with a focus on attracting and retaining excellent staff to ensure the best outcomes for all of the students in our care and within the whole trust. We are located in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, and situated close to direct transport links into London and the Home Counties.
Applicants need to complete an application form and send in a covering letter. For full details and an application form, please visit our website www.bea.bucks.sch.uk or contact Lucy Gibbons, lucy.gibbons@E-ACT.org.uk (PA to the Headteacher). Enquiries and informal visits are welcomed.
Closing date: Monday 29 October 2018
Bourne End Academy is committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children and young people, and expects all staff to share this. A clear enhanced DBS is required.
About Bourne End Academy
Previously known as The Wye Valley School, Bourne End Academy adopted its current moniker following its conversion to academy status in 2014, the school is now a part of the Wycombe High School Academies Trust. With around 600 pupils aged 11-18 in a co-educational setting, Bourne End Academy is smaller than the average secondary school of its type. In terms of intake, the school has a higher than average number of students with Special Educational Needs, with the school providing a specially resourced unit for students with Autism.
Headteacher
Andrea Jacobson
Values and Vision
Bourne End Academy works closely with its academy partners to provide an extensive and well thought-out curriculum. The school offers a wide range of subjects, both vocational and academic, and strives to create a structured and disciplined learning environment, the school sets high standards for both behaviour and uniform, and is not shy about encouraging its students to work independent and properly guide their own learning. Aside from their academic studies, Bourne End also strives to equip students with the necessary life skills to become responsible adults, with the proper emotional and social intelligence.
Ofsted
“The welfare and personal development of pupils is fostered particularly well. There are carefully planned activities in lessons, assemblies and whole days devoted to events promoting pupils’ personal development and understanding of diverse topics. There is a culture of safety and, as a result, pupils say they feel safe in school.”
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