Head of All-through Art with Design Technology
King Solomon Academy
Westminster
- £32,960 - £52,976 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- + Teaching and Learning Responsibility (£4,784)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2023 (flex start)
- Apply by:
- 17 April 2023
Job overview
King Solomon Academy
Head of All-through Art with Design Technology
Location:Marylebone, London
Salary:Ark Mainscale or Upper Pay Spine (32,960 - £52,976) + Teaching and Learning responsibility 2b £4,784)
Working hours: Full-time
Contract: Permanent
Start date: September 2023 (flexible start date)
Closing date: Monday 17th April at 9am
A great opportunity to be part of an outstanding academy, which seeks to redefine what is possible for a school serving an inner-city community.
About the role:
Art and Design is a vital part of academy life, with an all-through Art and Design curriculum guiding our pupils towards mastery in the subject across both our primary and secondary schools.
This is a unique opportunity for an ambitious and high-performing teacher and leader who is committed to pushing themselves further and achieving amazing things with and for their pupils. We believe in high expectations and a sense of collaborative and positive enthusiasm which brings out the best in our team.
Through weekly coaching and time allocated to professional development we can help our teachers and leaders excel in creating a successful environment for our pupils.
Our pupils enjoy learning these skills from our nursery through to Secondary. Our outcomes at GCSE are good, but we know there is more to develop in our curriculum further to genuinely develop great artists throughout the school.
Our ideal candidate will have:
- Experience of leading, coaching and managing staff
- Experience of raising attainment in a leadership role in a challenging school
- Evidence of continually improving the teaching and learning
- Evidence of leading and/or teaching KS5 is desirable
View the full job description and person specification here.
About our school:
King Solomon Academy has consistently been one of the highest performing non-selective schools in the country. We are rare in that it is a genuine all-through school. Our pupils join at 2,3 and 4 years old and stay with us until they are 18.
By joining our school, you play a part in showing what is possible when children’s education is seen as a long-term commitment. We are growing a team of exceptionally committed staff who value each and every year of a child’s education equally. If you too are motivated to redress educational disadvantage in the UK, King Solomon Academy is beginning to show what is possible and you could be part of the team defining the future of education in our country.
We aim to transform the lives of our pupils.Our mission is to provide a rigorous education that prepares our pupils for success at university and beyond, irrespective of their starting point. Our teachers and leaders do whatever it takes to make this a reality
How to apply:
Please visit http://kingsolomonacademy.org/current-vacancies and submit your application. Please note we will be reviewing applications on an on-going basis and this advert may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response.
If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, we would be delighted to hear from you. To arrange a visit, an informal chat or for any queries, please contact our HR Officer, Salma Ali on ksa.hr@kingsolomonacademy.org.
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About King Solomon Academy
King Solomon Academy is an all-through school for 3 - 18 year olds in Lisson Grove.
Pupils and their immense potential are at the heart of the academy. They live and work by the philosophy that there are no excuses and no short cuts to success, and promote excellence in every aspect of academy life.
Aims, Vision and Values
Our mission is to provide our pupils with a rigorous and transformational education which prepares them for success at university and beyond. We ensure that every pupil achieves academic success and has the real option of going to university. We want to make university education something which is accessible, exciting and aspirational. We believe our pupils work hard towards this goal because we make it real for them. We name our classes after well-known university cities and we name each year group by the year in which they will graduate from sixth form. We run residential trips to universities to open their eyes to the opportunties that university study can deliver.
In order to make our dreams for our pupils a reality, we foster values and approaches that transform the lives of our pupils. At the heart of our approach is that we are an all-through school with a thriving nursery provision. We believe in investing in knowing our pupils and their families extremely well, and we prioritise our pupils making extraordinary progress in the early years of their education. This sense of long-term commitment is core to our approach.
We have high expectations for all of our pupils, and believe that with great teaching and a lot of love and care, every child here can fulfil their potential.This both warm and strict approach means pupils feel safe and secure in the school but also confident to contribute to the future of the school and their community.
Long term, we aim to play our part in removing the educational disadvantage currently experienced by those born into economic deprivation our country. We strive to create role models and leaders in our community and through them to create a safer, fairer, and happier society.
Our vision
High expectations We are climbing the mountain to university
Excellent teaching We love teaching and learning and place it at the heart of all our work.
A rigorous and transformational curriculum Our all-through curriculum is carefully designed and implemented to ensure that our pupils have a journey from nursery to university
Exemplary Character Our focus on high quality relationships creates a powerful culture which ensures that our pupils develop exemplary behaviour and character.
A long-term commitment to every pupil As one of a handful of all-through schools with consistent cohorts of children across primary and secondary, we are able to develop a unique team and family orientated culture which ensures that each of our pupils and families are known and cared for as individuals.
Investment in our team We choose to work at KSA because we know we will work together to address educational inequality.
Efficient and effective organisation We carefully organise the operational and educational activities in our school to maximise our collective impact and make our work sustainable.
Specialisms
Like all Ark academies, King Solomon Academy has a maths specialism. Proficiency in maths is essential in every sphere of adult life, so we invest in the resources to attract and train the best maths teachers. We aim to produce confident and proficient mathematicians. We will ensure that pupils acquire skills as early as possible. We will help every student to maximise their skills and qualifications and offer those with particular ability the chance to accelerate their achievement in maths and further maths.
King Solomon Academy is a music specialist school. We chose music as a specialism because it is fun and inspiring and can involve every pupil. We believe that being part of the KSA orchestra will create a great sense of shared identity as well enabling our pupils to benefit from the known academic, intellectual and social advantages of musical training.
Ofsted
King Solomon Academy was inspected by Ofsted in May 2013 and was graded as "outstanding" in all areas. You can read the full report here.
Among the points highlighted by the Inspectors in the academy's first full inspection report since opening, they say:
“King Solomon Academy is an outstanding and unique 21st century school". Among many other points Ofsted praise KSA's creation and inspiration of "a community of enthusiastic learners, who are passionate about achieving academic excellence."
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