Head of Maths
Ark Soane Academy
Ealing
- Expired
- Salary:
- Ark L1-L5 (£53,456 - £58,124)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2023
- Apply by:
- 10 March 2023
Job overview
Head of Maths at Ark Soane Academy
Location: Acton, London — a five-minute walk from Acton Town tube station
Contract: Full-time hours, permanent contract.
Start date: January 2023-but at an alternative start date may be considered.
Salary: Ark L1-L5
Interviews: TBC
Opportunity for an exceptional candidate to be a Head of Maths, shaping a new Ark secondary school in Ealing.
We opened to 180 students in September 2021 and currently have 360 Year 7 and Year 8 students in the school. This year we will move into our brand new school building. Joining Soane now is a unique opportunity to become part of a thriving, collaborative and growing team who all hold the highest expectations of student behaviour and effort and are all deeply committed to the success of our students and of the school.
The role
We are looking for an exceptional head of maths who cares deeply about the students they teach and are prepared to hold students to account with strictness and warmth. You can look forward to joining a great working environment where students are bought in to the school’s ethos and typically work with great enthusiasm, diligence and gratitude towards their teachers.
You can look forward to leading an exceptionally warm, collaborative and experienced department. You can expect the highest levels of dedication and commitment from your students and unwavering support from the maths department and the school leadership team in securing this.
Our staff are committed subject experts and are given the capacity and the training to ensure that their curriculum delivers knowledge-rich mastery through effective planning and intellectual preparation. In maths our curriculum is based on Maths Mastery ensuring that the department’s time is used where it is most valuable: working as a team to implement the curriculum for the students in our classrooms.
The mathematics department at Soane is exceptional: in our founding year Soane students achieved the strongest exam results in the Ark network with a VA score of +1.55 and 88% of students on track to achieve 4+ at GCSE. As Head of Department you will lead an exceptionally strong team to continue developing our Mastery-based curriculum to GCSE and beyond.
We believe that every member of staff deserves to be developed, and routine coaching for all staff underpins student progress. If you join us you can look forward to being part of a team where your time and professionalism are highly valued and where your voice is welcomed in shaping the future direction of the school.
The successful candidate will shape maths provision at the school, embed the school vision and develop an outstanding school that empowers our students to take responsibility and drive their own destinies. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to grow with the school. They will be supported in their development and preparation for future roles. Teaching experience will not be a determining factor — we welcome applications from experienced department heads as well as those from whom this is a first step into leadership. We will develop every staff member that joins our team, providing one-to-one support, coaching and mentoring and access to extensive network training
Ark Soane Academy is part of Ark, one of the UK’s most successful school groups, with a network of 37 schools in 4 locations across the country.
As a proud member of the network, we offer:
• Twice as many training days as standard
• Weekly staff training designed to meet the needs of the school
• Coaching for every teacher
• Protected co-planning time
• Access to high-quality, regular professional development
• Opportunities to collaborate with colleagues across the network.
We are recruiting for January 2023 and will continue to recruit extensively as the school reaches its full size. To discuss this role, or future opportunities at Ark Soane, please contact Swannie Ki (hr@arksoane.org) or phone on 020 7430 8876.
To view a full job description and person specification please click HERE.
For more information about our school, please visit: www.arksoane.org. To arrange a confidential conversation with the Principal about this role, please contact Swannie Ki (hr@arksoane.org) or phone 02074308876
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in our academies. In order to meet this responsibility, we follow a rigorous selection process which will include questions about safeguarding. This process is outlined here, but can be provided in more detail if requested. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
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About Ark Soane Academy
Welcome to Ark Soane Academy.
We are a brand new, non-selective, non-denominational secondary school which opened in Ealing in September 2021.
Ark Soane, like all Ark schools, is designed around six core ideas: excellent behaviour; a curriculum that enables student mastery of learning so all students can achieve exceptional results; high quality teaching; development of student character and forming strong habits; raising student aspirations so they seek to achieve to their fullest potential; and developing our teachers to become leaders in education.
We are proud to be named after John Soane – the great architect and educator who is closely associated with the area. He believed that architecture students of his day needed to be well versed in literature, mathematics, classics and history among other subjects and that they should explain their ideas with “clearness, correctness and effect”. We aim to provide that standard of education to all our students: a challenging curriculum taught with kindness and with the opportunity for students to express themselves with pride and with the highest standards of speaking and literacy.
We know that every child can succeed and we will insist on their success by expecting the highest standards from them: a commitment to work hard at all times; a commitment to learn from every opportunity; and a commitment to behave impeccably to maximise time for learning. We also know that children encounter barriers to their learning and we work with children and their families to overcome these. We know that high expectations combined with kind support provides Ark Soane students with every opportunity to succeed.
We know that children are curious and that they deserve to be stretched with a challenging curriculum that demands effort and resilience. Our curriculum provides a strong foundation to develop students’ knowledge and provokes their curiosity and interest in further study. Our students know why what they are learning is important and are prepared to work relentlessly to master that knowledge. We know that struggle is an essential part of learning and we provide additional lessons and support for those who struggle in any topic so that we leave no child behind.
We know that children who love school will be able to access the university and career of their choice. We have recruited an outstanding, passionate and committed team of founding teachers who are experts in their fields and are determined to foster a love for their subject to enable our children to be successful. Our teachers know individual students’ strengths and areas for development and work tirelessly for their success.
We know that children can learn from every activity and every encounter. All Ark Soane children participate in carefully chosen extra-curricular activities designed to grow their independence, their academic skills and their compassion. All children have opportunities to attend universities and meet employers from Year 7 upwards and will be supported to meet their high aspirations.
In September 2021 we opened our doors to 180 year 7 students who have the privilege of being the only year group in the school and the opportunity to shape Ark Soane for future generations. In September 2022 we are delighted to be welcoming our second cohort of students to the school and to be opening our full premises.
We are committed to delivering a highly challenging curriculum in a calm and purposeful environment with great teaching, outstanding behaviour, kindness and respect for all our students.
We look forward to welcoming you to our school.
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