Academy Principal
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Blackburn with Darwen
- Expired
- Salary:
- Salary Range: £70,000 to £100,000
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2017, or earlier if possible.
- Apply by:
- 27 February 2017
Job overview
We are looking for a successful and experienced school leader ready for their next challenge, who can demonstrate passion, determination, creativity and outstanding team working skills to lead Darwen Aldridge Community Academy to become recognised as an outstanding school.
Aldridge Education is a charitable trust whose non-selective, entrepreneurial community schools and colleges help young people to reach their potential. We work in different regions across England where the opportunities and prospects for young people are often most limited, and where the introduction of our entrepreneurial approach to education can have most benefit. You can find out more about our academies, support and resources on this website -http://aldridgeeducation.org/
This exciting opportunity arises as a result of the founding Principal’s promotion to Executive Principal of our North West cluster. Darwen Aldridge Community Academy is a highly successful 11-19 school rated Good by Ofsted (2013) and with rapidly improving numbers (1340 students in 2016 from 735 in 2008) and a thriving sixth form. The academy is based in an iconic, state of the art building within Darwen. The Principal’s role will be supported by the Executive Principal, whose wider remit is to develop the cluster and secure improvements across the region.
More information about the role can be obtained from our Chief Executive’s covering letter and the job description.
We really want to hear from you if you are a successful and experienced leader who is able to demonstrate passion, determination, creativity and excellent team working skills. You will also be an excellent practitioner and looking for the next significant challenge in your career.
To apply please submit the documents below:
- A completed application form
- A personal statement describing why you think you have the skills and experience for the advertised role (2 sides A4)
- A Curriculum Vitae
Please submit your application by Monday 27th February 2017 (9am) to val.townsend@daca.uk.com
Further information:
Potential candidates can also speak informally to Brendan Loughran, the Executive Principal of the Aldridge Education North West Cluster. To arrange this please contact Val.Townsend@daca.uk.com or call 01254 819 500.
All posts are subject to enhanced DBS checks.
Attached documents
About Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy (DACA) opened in the predecessor school buildings in September 2008, moving to its new town centre location in September 2010. The state of the art building features an entrepreneurship bridge, Darwen Creates. The Academy Sixth Form brought a new education offer for post 16 students with the outstanding new facilities at the Academy designed to be accessible to the wider Darwen community.
In 2011, its third year after opening, DACA was a finalist in the Academy of the Year category at the Education Investor Awards. On 11th April 2011 Prince William and Kate Middleton officially opened the Academy buildings in one of the last official engagements they carried out before their wedding later that month. Prince William praised the “wonderful, innovative, ground-breaking” academy and stated “I am convinced the academy will transform the lives of families in Darwen and, through its example, countless others elsewhere.”
In 2013 the Academy saw record A level Results with a pass rate of 100%, and celebrated another first for the Academy when Khushna Sulaman-Butt secured her place at Ruskin College, Oxford to read Fine Art – the first DACA student ever to progress to Oxford University.
2013 also saw DACA achieve a Good rating in all aspects of an OFSTED Inspection.
By 2016 the percentage of students achieving 5 or more GCSE passes at A* to C grade (including maths and English Language or Literature) had risen to 65% while the A Level pass rate and vocational equivalent pass rate at the Academy were both 100%, and at A Level only 46% achieved the highest A*-B grades. A record number of 68 of our students applied for and got their first choice of University.
There is regular emphasis and assessment of the specialisms of entrepreneurship and sport at the Academy. DACA has developed the characteristics of entrepreneurship which are embedded across all aspects of Academy life to raise the potential of students.
In 2015 the local business community recognised the impact of the Academy’s commitment to developing entrepreneurship with the Enterprise in Education Award at the Hive Business Awards 2015. Weeks later the Academy was named Secondary School of the Year by the Lancashire Telegraph and in October the Academy was named one eleven schools from eleven countries across Europe to have won the Entrepreneurial School of the Year Award 2015, a national and European recognition of the best schools championing entrepreneurship education.
In November 2016 the Academy received a British Council International School Award recognising its “outstanding development of the international dimension in the curriculum”. The award recognised Darwen Academy’s long-term commitment to improving education and enhancing understanding of different cultures through its programme of overseas visits and project work in disadvantaged communities.
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