Teacher of Performing Arts and Learning for Life
Shireland Collegiate Academy
Sandwell
- Expired
- Salary:
- MS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 22 May 2024
Job overview
POST: Teacher of Performing Arts and Learning for Life
LOCATION: Shireland Collegiate Academy
SALARY: TMS/UPS
REQUIRED FOR: September 2024
The Academy
This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity to be part of a team delivering our competency-based curriculum and Drama at this outstanding Academy. We believe:
- At SCA we are committed to an inclusive education for local students at every ability level, a rigorous grounding in academic fundamentals and equipping students for the future through teaching them relevant and cutting-edge skills for the era in which they live.
- That every student should be safe, happy ambitious of themselves and respectful of all.
- We ensure that students have world class opportunities which allow them to compete with any students in the country.
Literacy for Life
Literacy for Life is a thematic curriculum taught for 17 hours with a single teacher in Year 7, 13 hours in Year 8 and 9 hours in Year 9. Each teacher is focussed on the students in their class, not just from an academic perspective but also getting to know the students and their families and forming a partnership which will really help students to progress. The programme has been run successfully at the Academy for the past 11 years and judged Outstanding by Ofsted at the last two inspections.
We are seeking an inspirational teacher able to deliver Performing Arts and the L4L curriculum. Applicants will:
- Be passionate about improving the lives of students they serve
- Be confident in teaching across subjects
- A role model for commitment and excellence
- Be confident in using pedagogies for thematic/project-based learning
- Want to collaborate as part of a team
- Believe they have both a pastoral and academic responsibility
- Have high standards for students and themselves
In return we will offer:
- Excellent career development opportunities and access to a comprehensive programme of CPD
- An extensive support programme for ECT’s
- An ICT rich environment which allows staff to be innovative in harnessing technology for learning
For further information or to apply please go to https://careers.shirelandcat.net/Department/Teaching
We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice where all staff can thrive. We believe that supporting our staff both personally and professionally allows them to give their very best to our students. Our aim is to foster a working culture that recognises and reflects the importance of good mental health and wellbeing and provides effective support when colleagues need it.
Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects its entire staff to share this commitment. All post-holders will be required to have an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), including a Children’s Barred List check for post carrying out a regulated activity.
Closing date: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Interviews: Friday 24th May 2024
Attached documents
About Shireland Collegiate Academy
- Shireland Collegiate Academy
- Waterloo Road, Smethwick
- West Midlands
- B66 4ND
- United Kingdom
Located in the town of Smethwick, West Midlands, Shireland Collegiate Academy is a large secondary school, with over 1100 pupils aged 11-19. A co-educational academy, the school first opened as an academy in 2007, having been founded a hundred years prior, and is fully managed by the Collegiate Academy Trust. The trust is only responsible for the management of Shireland Collegiate Academy. The school has a large and extremely diverse catchment area, a fact reflected in its student intake. Shireland Collegiate Academy, also has special provision for students with Special Educational Needs, as a result a higher-than-average number of these students attend the school.
Headteacher
Sir Mark Grundy
Values and Vision
The curriculum at Shireland Collegiate Academy is unusual, both in terms of structure and teaching. The school has a very strong focus on technology, with ICT playing a huge role in the education of students across all subjects. In terms of organisation, Key Stage 3 students at the school spend a great deal of time with the same teacher, and older students follow a curriculum focused on equipping students with a diverse skill-set reflective of the modern workplace.
Ofsted
“This is an exceptional academy, which has maintained and built upon the very high standards seen at the last inspection. n Students, staff and parents are, quite rightly, proud to be associated with this academy. As one student said, ‘I feel privileged to be a student here.’”
The full report into Shireland Collegiate Academy can be found here.
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