Assistant Director of Learning for English
Rugby Free Secondary School
Warwickshire
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- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS (TLR 2 £7017)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 9 May 2021
Job overview
Rugby Free Secondary School opened in 2016 and has just moved into a brand-new purpose-built facility. The road hasn’t been smooth, but it is a school committed to providing success for all of its students and providing a workplace that supports its staff to ensure they are able to work to the best of their ability for our students every day. You won’t find teachers and staff anywhere else who are as committed to a school’s purpose and supporting its success.
We are currently graded as inadequate by Ofsted (May 2019) but on our first monitoring visit (December 2019) and then again in February 2021, it was recognised just how much the school has improved in such a short space of time. Our aim is to be at least ‘good’ by December 2021.
Areas of responsibility and key tasks
- To support the Director of Learning to create opportunities to continue to improve subject pedagogy within the faculty through moderation, training, collaborative planning and the use of excellent teaching resources.
- To monitor the quality of Teaching and Learning in the faculty, conducting learning walks, work scrutiny and lesson observations when required
- To develop and quality assure the Schemes of Learning, resources and assessments in the faculty and ensure they successfully develop knowledge, understanding and skills at all levels of ability.
- To ensure an engaging curriculum is developed to inspire, support and challenge all students at KS3.
Curriculum Development
- To support the Director of Learning effectively manage and deploy teaching/support staff, financial and physical resources within the English curriculum
- To lead on the development and running of KS3 within English, reporting to the Director of Learning, creating intervention strategies to improve achievement in both the short and long term
- To support the Director of Learning in ensuring that the qualifications and specifications in the faculty reflect the needs of students and the aims and objectives of the school
- To support the Director of Learning in producing an annual curriculum overview for the faculty outlining assessment opportunities and how they will be used to raise achievement
- To support the Director of Learning to plan a range of enrichment opportunities across the faculty and measure the impact on student's personal development and achievement
Outcomes for students
- In support the Director of Learning in consultation with the Senior Leadership Team manage, analyse and evaluate all relevant available data in order to set targets for individual students and for the various subject teams
- To support the Director of Learning to raise standards of student attainment and achievement within the whole curriculum area and to monitor and support student progress
- To support the Director of Learning ensuring that effective intervention is put in place for students who are underachieving
Leadership and Management
- To work alongside Subject Leaders within the English department to ensure excellent KS3 English provision
- To support the Director of Learning
- To support the Director of Learning in the development of teachers and support staff in English through the appraisal process and CPD opportunities
- To support the Director of Learning in ensuring that the faculty quality assurance procedures meet the requirements of Self Evaluation and the School Improvement Plan
- To support the Director of Learning in ensuring that all relevant policies are adhered to within the faculty such as Marking and Feedback, Assessment and Behaviour
- To support the Director of Learning in the development of trainees/NQT in the faculty
- To participate in and lead CPD
- To support the Director of Learning work collaboratively with other Senior Middle Leaders to further drive improvement
- To celebrate success within the faculty and create opportunities for showcasing excellence
Attached documents
About Rugby Free Secondary School
Welcome to Rugby Free Secondary School
‘Pupils benefit from a school community that includes pupils from a wide range of different backgrounds and cultures. There is a culture in which pupils see these differences as a positive thing. Uniqueness is valued and celebrated. Pupils feel confident ‘to be themselves’ at Rugby Free Secondary School. (Ofsted ‘Good’: July 2021)’
At Rugby Free Secondary School, we aim to foster kindness and pride, whilst maximising our academic and personal potential. We believe that all of our students should be happy and safe, whilst demonstrating the limitless endeavour and resilience required to succeed by striving for excellence. To achieve these goals, our school ethos is underpinned by the foundations of mutual respect, positive relationships and genuine curiosity. This is encompassed in our educational philosophy of creating more articulate, organised and progressive learners, and the desire to create both independent and collaborative learners who are proud to be educated at Rugby Free Secondary School. Alongside this, we focus on broadening our students’ core subject knowledge and understanding of the wider world. As a consequence, quality-first Teaching and Learning is at the centre of our school’s ethos, and is the key priority for all staff. Our aim is for teachers to deliver high-quality lessons to all year groups, whilst also being supported to develop through pertinent and purposeful internal and external CPD that is bespoke. Learning is integral to everything we do at RFSS. We ensure that all of our students, regardless of gender, ethnicity or ability, receive the best possible learning experiences, to enable them to achieve and maximise their potential. Here at RFSS, we continually support students to develop a love of learning to help them become learners for life, in order to equip them with the knowledge and skills that they will need in the real-world. This is also the case with our teaching staff, who continuously develop and update their own pedagogical practices, through Action Research projects and other bespoke professional development sessions.
Please find below link to our website with the latest Ofsted report when we were graded as ‘Good’.
https://www.rugbyfreesecondary.co.uk/ofsted
Our Values are:
- Kindness – The quality of friendliness, generosity, consideration, honesty
- Collaboration – The belief that working and learning with others will lead to greater success
- Curiosity – A strong desire to know and to learn
- Resilience - The ability to recover quickly and learn from the difficulties we face
- Respect - To appreciate the importance of understanding and admiration for others and self
- Endeavour - The belief that hard work is needed to achieve something we can be proud of.
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