Assistant Headteacher (English and Literacy)
St Luke's Church of England School
Devon
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Scale L9 – L13
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2021
- Apply by:
- 19 April 2021
Job overview
Assistant Headteacher (English and Literacy)
Salary details: Leadership Scale L9 – L13
Appointment type: Full Time, permanent
Required from: 1st September 2021
Closing Date: Midday, Monday 19th April
We are looking to recruit an experienced and inspirational leader of English to play a critical role in our continued drive to create outstanding life chances for our students.
The English Team are committed to ensuring the delivery of the curriculum continues to develop and there is a wonderful innovative and progressive atmosphere in the team. Each member of the English department plays their part towards moving forward our vision of a curriculum that challenges, inspires and engages our students. If you are reflective in your approach, have a desire to continuously improve your practice and that of others, and are passionate about teaching and leading English as well as inspiring young people, we would love to hear from you.
St Luke’s Church of England School is an 11-16 comprehensive school of 900 students situated in the East of Exeter on a relatively new, purpose-built site which offers excellent facilities. We are an innovative and aspirational school that is driven by the highest of expectations in all that we do. We offer a rich and personalised learning environment for all of our students and work hard together to support every student to exceed their expectations, whatever their starting point. The post represents an exciting opportunity to be part of a vibrant and ambitious School working within the Ted Wragg Multi-Academy Trust.
St Luke’s has a strong sense of community and its staff body epitomises this. Staff are student focused, supportive and kind to one another. They are exceptionally committed and passionate about all that they do, working together to ensure that St Luke’s delivers the best educational experience it can for its students. We work closely with other schools in the Ted Wragg Trust and are actively engaged in developing an aligned curriculum that will allow for shared resources and expertise. Staff at St Luke’s are valued and receive weekly coaching sessions, bespoke CPD, in-house career progression opportunities and regular staff-wellbeing events.
At St Luke’s everything we do is built around our vision; Life to the full, and our five core values:
- Showing respect
- Being inclusive
- Giving hope
- Achieving your best
- Taking responsibility
If you share these values; are driven by wanting to do your best at all times; are prepared to go that extra mile to support our students; and would like to be part of our community, then we would welcome your application.
We would welcome visits to the school prior to applications. Should you wish to arrange one or a phone call with the Headteacher to discuss the post, please contact headteacher@stlukescofe.school
All applications should be made on the Trust application form. Please include evidence of how you meet the person specification and have experience of the key responsibilities of the role.
Further details and an application form can be downloaded from the Ted Wragg Trust website https://www.tedwraggtrust.co.uk/vacancy/ and https://stlukescofe.school/recruitment/
The Ted Wragg Multi-Academy Trust based in Exeter is a values-driven growing Trust, committed to the transformation of lives through education, ensuring that the Trust delivers outstanding outcomes for every pupil.
The Ted Wragg Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and operate in accordance with the Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. All applicants will be subject to a full Disclosure and Barring Service check before an appointment is confirmed. This role requires the ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence and fluency in English. The Trust is committed to ensuring that our employees are able to achieve their full potential in an environment offering dignity, respect and equality of opportunity.
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About St Luke's Church of England School
St Luke’s is a voluntary controlled Church of England School and part of the rapidly growing Ted Wragg Multi-Academy Trust.
St Luke’s is a wonderful place to work and is full of staff who are dedicated to improving the life chances of every student that attends the school. We work closely with other schools in the Ted Wragg Multi Academy Trust and are part of a wider family who all believe passionately in high quality education for all. We offer our staff disruption free classrooms, weekly coaching, in-house career progression, wider MAT leadership development opportunities and a high quality staff wellbeing programme.
Our vision is to ensure that our community, both staff and students live ‘life to the full’ with this being underpinned by our five core values:
• Taking responsibility
• Being inclusive
• Showing respect
• Giving hope
• Achieving your best
St Luke’s is a school that has the very highest expectations of, and for, our students. We enable each and every one of them to become ‘good stewards’ of their own lives and of the world around them by taking personal responsibility for themselves, their learning and their environment. All of our community treat one and another with dignity and respect and we are incredibly proud of our Christian ethos.
Our staff are an incredibly committed team who have a very clear goal: ‘to enable every child at St Luke’s to have the best educational experience possible, full of enriching opportunities and the right balance of support and challenge so that they achieve their very best'. We aim to enable every child to make a positive next step in their education, training and future employment so that they are fully prepared to live ‘life to the full’. We do this by ensuring that we deliver excellent teaching in every classroom day in, day out and by providing an academically challenging curriculum that is personalised for every child and promotes high aspirations and achievement. Underpinning this is a business and administrative team that is efficient and effective and provides a comprehensive level of support to enable us to get the very best out of every single student and every single member of staff.
St Luke’s is a really exciting place to work as it is a school that is driven by a desire to improve and to be the best that it can be. Our school improvement journey in the last two years has been substantial; the impact can be seen in our outcomes, student voice, parental voice and our high levels of staff retention. But we are not a school that rests on its laurels; we are a school that is driven by very high standards and a need to ensure that all improvements are consistently embedded across the whole school to ensure that they have maximum and long term impact. We have seen many successes in the last two years but we are always looking to improve further.
This is particularly true in the classroom where we focus a great deal of our work. All staff follow the St Luke’s Lesson Framework, which is based on the work of Doug Lemov and Barack Rosenshine, and all staff receive 1-1 coaching once a week to help them embed the framework because, in the words of Dylan Williams, ‘every teacher needs to improve, not because they are not good enough, but because they can be even better'.
We are looking for staff who want to join a school at a very exciting time in its improvement journey. Staff who want to help us to make a difference to the lives of our children through a relentless desire to strive for excellence in all that we do.
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