Principal
Ark John Keats Academy
Enfield
- Expired
- Salary:
- Significant & generous six figure salary, including a potential relocation bonus
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2023 or as soon as suitable
- Apply by:
- 20 February 2023
Job overview
Ark John Keats
Principal
Reports to: Regional Director
Start date: September 2023 or as soon as suitable
Location: Bell Ln, Enfield EN3 5PA
Salary: Significant & generous six figure salary, including a potential relocation bonus
Contract: Permanent, full-time
Closing date: Monday 20th February, 9am
Visits and interview: To be arranged as suitable for the candidate
We are looking for a new Principal to lead Ark John Keats Academy at this important stage of its journey. The new leader will join our large 3 to 18, all-through school, with great potential and a strong foundation to build on.
Our School:
There is real potential in our school; as an all-through school the Principal can impact our children’s journey from the moment they enter nursery. With newly built, excellent, modern facilities, and a healthy school budget the Principal also can make real change.
Today our students leave our primary phase having achieved around 10% above the national average. At GCSE, our 2022 Progress 8 score of + 0.73 (top 7% of the country) shows that success continues right through the secondary phase. Furthermore, around a third of our pupils progressed to Russell Group Universities in 2021 and 2022. We are proud of our accomplishments to date, but there is more to be done and improved on, to make sure our school is solidly strong throughout.
Ark John Keats Academy is also part of the Ark multi-academy trust, one of the largest and most successful networks of schools in the country. You will join a community of committed and driven headteachers who work closely together to share good practice, provide support for one another, and improve what we do as a school and a network.
Ark is renowned for its approach to staff development, with high quality training provided at every level for both teaching and non-teaching staff. For Principals this includes extensive training, coaching qualifications and one-to-one coaching development.
We welcome applications from both aspiring principals with substantial secondary leadership experience as well as existing headteachers.
What we offer:
We are offering a significant and generous six figure salary as well as the chance to work alongside some exceptional leaders who offer genuine support and capacity. In addition, at Ark you will:
· Have influence across network-wide issues through our principal meetings and regional collaboration
· Have support from an experienced group of principals and Regional Director
· Have on-hand expertise from our dedicated network education and operations teams who are ready to support you and your school
· Have excellent career development opportunities across both the region and wider Ark network
· Have access to excellent senior leadership training
How to apply:
To apply, please submit an application via our online recruitment portal by 9am on Monday 20rd February.
We warmly welcome conversations about the role and visits to our school. If you would like to be in touch for an informal and confidential conversation, please contact Amit Hathi on Amit.Hathi@arkonline.org or our Head of Talent, Lexy di Marco on alexia.dimarco@arkonline.org.
For more information about the role, the school and Ark, please view the full job pack.
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.
Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred.
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About Ark John Keats Academy
We are delighted to introduce you to Ark John Keats Academy. The academy is a 3 to 18 all-through school in Enfield, with a mixed comprehensive intake. We opened our doors to our first Reception classes in September 2013 and our first cohort of year 7 pupils joined us in September 2014. We currently have over 1700 pupils on roll from Nursery to Year 13.
Ark John Keats is a very proud member of the successful Ark network of schools. Our curriculum is academic, planned to prepare pupils for the best universities by emphasising mastery of knowledge and skills. Our teaching staff are experts in their subject areas and all staff at the academy share a commitment to upholding the highest expectations. We have created an academy that is renowned for its calm, orderly and purposeful environment and where pupils behave maturely and respectfully.
We have developed a character programme to support the development of our pupils, and we ensure pupils develop their wider interests and passions by allowing our pupils access to a variety of enrichment activities, ranging from chess and coding to football and political art. We support pupils in raising their aspirations by helping them understand the structure, importance and value of school. We inspire their thinking about their futures through university and workplace visits and through our external speaker programme, where visitors speak to pupils about their career choices and educational experiences. We are also committed to developing our staff and we ensure they master all aspects of their work and are brilliantly prepared for the next stage of their careers. The academy has first class facilities having undergone an £18 million rebuilding and refurbishment programme that was completed in December 2015.
We are very excited by what we have achieved so far and new staff and pupils will be joining a school with a wonderful ethos, where local children are provided with a first class education. We are intent on developing a school that will match the very best in both the state and private sectors and is a source of pride for the people of north east Enfield.
Principal
Katie Marshall
Primary Headteacher
Emma Penzer
Vision and Values
At Ark John Keats, we aspire for all our children to have the academic knowledge necessary to enable them to progress to university, for pupils to have a love of learning and curiosity about the world, and for them to be polite, well-mannered young people who take responsibility for their choices and drive their own destinies.
The academy’s approach to achieving this is based on our six pillars:
- High expectations: Every adult who works at AJK believes in the limitless potential of all children.
- Excellent teaching: Subject specialists plan lessons focused on rigorous content which make pupils work hard and think deeply about the subject, fostering their curiosity and love of learning.
- Exemplary behaviour: Pupils are unfailingly polite and well-mannered individuals who take responsibility for their own actions and seek to help others whenever they can.
- Depth for breadth: Our rich, challenging curriculum builds pupils’ cultural capital to ensure they can all be knowledgeable, articulate and university ready.
- Knowing every child: Our teachers know and care about every child they interact with, proactively building strong and positive relationships between school and home.
- Always learning: Our continuous professional development, co-planning meetings and coaching ensure teachers feel stretched and supported, able to develop as teachers and leaders in a long-term career at Ark John Keats.
Ofsted and Performance Data
The academy was inspected in April 2015 and was judged outstanding in every area
We see the outstanding judgement only as a validation of the progress we have made to date. We are determined to provide an unrivalled standard of education for local children and know we have more to do to achieve this. Our focus will remain unwaveringly on the further development of exceptional practice within each of our pillars:
- A curriculum that provides challenge, academic rigour, cultural literacy and systematic progression as well as opportunities for pupils to develop key learning dispositions and their literacy and numeracy skills.
- Teaching that is highly effective and high quality support for staff in developing their practice.
- Strong discipline through the highly consistent application of our routines and techniques by all staff. Development of character through the Character programme.
- Raising aspirations through high quality teaching, the speaker programme, university visits and working with external partners.
- Widening pupils’ horizons through a high quality enrichment programme that all staff contribute to.
- Setting high expectations in everything we do and working collaboratively to ensure staff and pupils can meet these expectations.
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