Vice Principal- Culture and Ethos
Ark Acton Academy
Ealing
- £75,176 - £82,055 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Ark Leadership Inner London L17-L21
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- April 2023
- Apply by:
- 7 December 2022
Job overview
VICE PRINCIPAL
Culture & Ethos
April 2023
Ark Acton Academy
Location: Acton, London — Excellent transport links, Acton Town station only 5 minutes’ walk, ample car parking onsite.
Role: VICE PRINCIPAL- CULTURE AND ETHOS
Start Date: – April 2023 to March 2024.
Salary: L17 – L21 (Ark, Inner London)
Closing date: 9th December 2022
Interviews: On a Rolling Basis – early application advised (we reserve the right to close the application early on appointment of a suitable candidate)
Contract: 12 months maternity cover with potential to become a permanent role.
Ark Acton Academy is on an exciting improvement journey and we are looking for an Vice Principal to join us and help us continue to be the school our students deserve. We are a fully comprehensive school that is proud of its diversity and our rapidly improving outcomes.
We secure very strong progress and great destinations for our students and the 6th form is the jewel in the crown of the academy. We run two main post-16 pathways and as a result of careful guidance and excellent teaching, many of our students take up places at high tariff universities including Oxbridge, Medical school and Russell group universities, with others securing places on competitive apprenticeships. We have a tradition of securing places for our students at US Ivy League universities, mainly on full scholarships.
We are now looking for someone to come and continue our excellent work on culture and ethos, ensuring we maintain a calm and scholarly atmosphere that enables all students to thrive. We serve a disadvantaged community, with half of our students being on Free School Meals and we are proud of our commitment to serving local children.
Benefits of being part of the Ark network include:
- Salary higher than the national pay scales
- Twice as many training days as standard and network-wide events with Ark colleagues, held by the best minds in education
- Excellent staff benefits, including free Yoga sessions, discounted MOT, dry cleaning service, use of the fully equipped gym and fitness suite.
The ideal candidate will:
- Combine subject expertise with a passion for securing the highest outcomes in post-16.
- Have the commitment, skills and character required to build a successful department
- Share the Ark Acton Academy vision and be aligned with the six pillars underpinning it
- Value and support practices driving continued progress across the network of Ark schools
For more information and a full job description please see supporting documents.
For further information on the school please visit https://arkacton.org
To apply please go to https://arkonline.org/careers . Please submit your application by 9th December 2022. For further information, a confidential discussion or any technical queries please contact Ruth Macmurray, HR Officer at rmacmurray@arkacton.org
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Attached documents
About Ark Acton Academy
At Ark Acton Academy we believe that every child, regardless of background or prior achievement, can be successful if given great teaching and pastoral support. Our mission is to create a school of the highest standard that achieves this through recruiting and training excellent teachers and support staff, and by developing a pastoral system that ensures no child is left behind.
Our mastery curriculum is at the heart of school life and ensures that all students get the opportunity to study academic disciplines and to wrestle with ways of thinking that take them beyond everyday understandings. Alongside this we invest heavily in staff training and development to ensure that every student is taught by a subject expert who is passionate about their subject and its importance to understanding the world around us.
Whilst we want all our students to leave Ark Acton Academy with the currency they need to access the next stage of their education and to have an unrelenting focus on hard work and discipline, we know that getting great exam results is only half of a good education: we are determined to deliver as many opportunities as we can for every child to flourish outside the classroom. We want our students to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with a child from a private school and compete for the same university place or job.
As part of Ark Schools, we have access to world class staff training and development, as well as expertise from across the network. Being part of a family of schools ensures that we can keep learning and evaluating our impact to ensure that every child who comes to Ark Acton leaves as a well-rounded and polite individual with the drive and resources to lead a happy and successful life.
Why work at Ark Acton Academy
At Ark Acton we have stripped away anything we feel gets in the way of being a great teacher so that we can focus on the main thing. This includes:
- Feedback policies that sit at department level and do not require slavish marking of books
- No graded lesson observations or spurious judgements
- No report writing
- No parent’s evenings
- Only 2 data points a year
- No ½ termly data metrics to track progress
- Protected Department meeting time built into the timetable and staff loadings
- Protected curriculum planning time built into the timetable and staff loadings
- A constant SLT presence to maintain our calm, scholarly atmosphere
- A binary behaviour system that enables disruption-free teaching.
Our curriculum
Our purpose as a school is to ensure our young people can go out into the world and live a life of choice and opportunity. We want them to leave Ark Acton having been inducted into systems of worthwhile knowledge that enable them to participate in and shape the national discourse.
In order to achieve this vision for our young people, we place the curriculum at the heart of school life. It drives all other decisions that we make and is the best means we have of demonstrating as a school what we believe in and what we stand for. In essence our curriculum is designed to ensure that all pupils at Acton acquire disciplinary knowledge that they cannot learn at home and that this specified curriculum knowledge is based on the most coherent and tested ways of conceptualising the world that we have.
Alongside our taught academic curriculum we run our co-curricular programme. This programme provides experiences and opportunities for all students to participate in individual and group activities that help them develop essential life skills. Debating and oracy sits at the heart of this model as we aim to enable all our students to develop confidence, articulacy and team-working skills.
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