Assistant Head in Charge of English and Literacy
Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
Buckinghamshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Range
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2017
- Apply by:
- 7 May 2017
Job overview
Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School is a selective-entry, co-educational grammar school recognised as Outstanding by OFSTED and by The National Association for Able Children in Education. Located in the centre of the attractive Thames-side town of Marlow, Buckinghamshire. the school has an excellent academic record and is very heavily over-subscribed. Standards of attainment are well above the national average, and above those achieved by comparable selective schools at all age levels. The school also has a justifiably high reputation for its rich and varied provision of academic enrichment and extra -curricular activities. These include HPQ and EPQ; Hockey, Rowing, Rugby and most other sports; Music, Dance, Drama and Creative Writing.
We are seeking an outstanding leader who will have responsibility for the strategic leadership of English and Literacy. The successful applicant will be a first rate practitioner with a passion for developing teaching and learning across the Key Stages alongside the Head of Department. You will also be responsible for identifying and leading initiatives designed to use the expertise within related departments to raise standards. You will have vision and enthusiasm to lead and support extension and enrichment opportunities, along with preparing students for competitive places in higher education. You will be a strategic thinker with the abilities to lead and inspire staff and pupils, work in a high performing, dynamic team, and be able to share the leadership and management of the school.
Other whole school leadership opportunities will be agreed according to the skills and interest of the successful candidate. These are likely to arise from one or more of our existing whole school initiatives, such as the SSAT Exceptional Schools Framework and the High Performing Schools “world class schools” framework, or our work as a Teaching School, involving support work across a range of local schools, or on-going developments with our new Multi-Academy Trust.
As part of our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children an enhanced DBS check is required. Your professional development is important to us. We have a supportive induction programme and a range of systems to help you develop as a professional.
For further details and application form please go to www.swbgs.com and click on Job Vacancies or email asummerfield@swbgs.com for more information.
Closing Date for Applications is 9am on Monday 8th May 2017
Interviews will take place on Friday 12th May 2017
About Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
- Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
- West Street, Marlow
- Buckinghamshire
- SL7 2BR
- United Kingdom
About Sir William Borlase's Grammar School:
Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school in the attractive Thames-side town of Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Founded in 1624 and still based on the original site, we are proud of our heritage as we approach our 400th birthday and excited to be inspiring and empowering the aspirations of our students today. Borlase is forward-looking; in 2019 we were awarded World Class School status from High Performance Learning for our innovative practice and received a government grant of over £2million to develop further our excellent facilities. We have a motivated staff of subject specialists who enjoy sharing their expertise with committed and engaged students. As a Teaching School, we have a particular strength in developing our teachers through a research-engaged professional development programme.
Headteacher
Ed Goodall.
Vision and Values
Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School is committed to being an inspirational learning environment for students and staff, empowering young people to fulfil their aspirations and ambitions; supporting them in developing the confidence to shape their own futures and in so doing, the future of the world around them.
Our values today are captured in the school motto, adopted by those early scholars back in 1624. Te Digna Sequere - Follow things Worthy - is a principle that underpins the distinctive ethos of the school. It reminds us all that we should have a clear moral purpose behind the choices we make; that we should value all individuals within a supportive community and that we have the potential to use our different talents to make a positive difference at Borlase and beyond.
The Borlase Curriculum provides a breadth and depth of academic learning and cultural experience to excite and extend all our students. It is rich in knowledge and in opportunities to develop creativity, instilling a life-long enthusiasm for learning. Our curriculum is delivered by passionate, specialist teachers who encourage aspiration, intellectual curiosity and the exploration of their subject disciplines inside and beyond the classroom, as independent thinkers and learners. It includes a broad range of super and extra-curricular opportunities which ignite and extend students' interests, enthusiasm and skills across a wide range of endeavours including those linked to academic subjects, to sports, the arts, engineering, AI, public speaking, creative writing, entrepreneurism and so much more.
Ofsted
"This is an outstanding school. The headteacher and senior leadership team have the very highest of expectations and have developed an inspirational learning culture which is embraced by both staff and students. Teaching and achievement are of the very highest quality and students take responsibility for their own learning.”
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