Assistant Principal for Sport
Ark Globe Academy
Southwark
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- Salary:
- Ark Leadership L11-L15
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 23 January 2020
Job overview
Job Description: Assistant Principal for Sport
Reports to: Vice Principal
Start date: 20 April 2020
Contract: Permanent
Salary: Ark Leadership L11-L15
We are looking for an ambitious and experienced leader who will brand Ark Globe Academy as a centre of excellence in sports. They will tap into the talent that already exists within the Academy and develop new partnerships, as well as maintaining the current partnerships with organisations such as Fulham FC Football club.
The Role:
The Assistant Principal for Sport will be accountable for standards and achievement of pupils within the faculty. This will involve the line management of the Subject Leader, including necessary support and monitoring. Ensuring high standards of teaching and learning in order to continue the drive to raise standards of attainment and ensure all students make excellent progress.
In addition, the Assistant Principal for Sport will be responsible for improving the profile of sport both in and outside of the Academy. This will involve leading and co-ordinating an extensive extra-curricular programme and establishing numerous sports teams to compete at a regional and national level.
As a member of the Academy’s Senior Leadership Team, the successful candidate will contribute towards the strategic development plan of the whole academy. The successful candidate will be expected to take on a whole academy responsibility based on their experience, skills and interests.
Key Responsibilities:
• Standards and achievement for all areas within the faculty
• Subject coordination across the Academy
• Leading the professional community of Subject Leaders and Teachers within the faculty, ensuring high standards of teaching and learning
• Curriculum setting and assessment for all areas within the faculty
• Quality teaching and learning of their subject specialism across the Academy
Outcomes and Activities
Leadership of the Faculty:
• Delivering professional development to teachers within the faculty, including INSET training
• Supervising and supporting Trainee Teachers and Newly Qualified Teachers (NQT’s) as appropriate
• Developing strong business and corporate partnerships
Teaching and Learning
• Excellent classroom practitioner that teaches engaging and effective lessons that motivate, inspire and improve pupil attainment - ensures that they model best practice
• Effective and systematic behaviour management, with clear boundaries, sanctions, praise and rewards in line with the Academy’s behaviour management policy
• Good communication, planning and organisational skills
• Demonstrates resilience, motivation and commitment to driving up standards of achievement
Curriculum setting and assessment
• Develop and implement high quality syllabuses and schemes of learning for all year groups within the faculty, that are inspiring for learners
• Monitor and assess teaching and learning within your subject and faculty
• Set regular, measurable and significant assessments for the students
Extra-Curricular
• Deliver a wide range of extra sport clubs
• Implement an elite player development programme for our most talented athletes
• Lead internal sports competitions between students and learning families
• Enter regional and national sports competitions.
Academy Culture
• Support the Academy’s values and ethos by contributing to the development and implementation of policies, practices and procedures
• Help create a strong academy community, characterised by consistent, orderly behaviour and caring, respectful relationships
• Help develop an academy culture and ethos that is utterly committed to achievement
Team Work
• To model the outstanding practice and to be observed as necessary so that staff can develop their own understanding of what good or better learning looks like
• To work collaboratively and creatively with the teaching and learning coaching team and SLT team
• To seek out exceptional practice from other institutions so that we continually develop our practice
• Use your learning to develop new and effective approaches to teaching and learning across the Academy
• Deliver high quality training and INSET sessions to new staff (all levels).
Other
Appraisal
• Your appraisal targets will be directly linked to the needs of the Academy and the faculty.
Commitment
• You must continually demonstrate an unwavering commitment to the Academy’s priorities and policies as modelled through your own actions and through your leadership of others
• Should your quality of teaching and learning not be sustained, this post will have to be re-considered accordingly
Person Specification: Assistant Principal for Sport
Qualification criteria
• Qualified to degree level and above
• Qualified to teach and work in the UK
• Evidence of professional development relevant to the Advanced Skills Teacher (now Lead Practitioner) standards.
Experience
• Experience of providing professional development to teachers, including coaching, mentoring and training
• Experience of designing and developing resources to support learning across different subject areas
• Experience of preparing and leading training sessions
• Demonstrable experience of significantly raising attainment in a challenging context
Knowledge
• Knowledge of the latest educational research, findings and best practices
• Excellent understanding of the OFSTED Framework and what constitutes effective teaching and learning
• Excellent knowledge of the National Curriculum for KS3, KS4 and ideally KS5 and a solid grounding in the assessment processes used to support planning and raise student attainment across these Key Stages
• Understanding of the strategies needed to establish consistently high aspirations and standards of results and behaviour.
Leadership
• Effective team member and leader
• High expectations for accountability and consistency
• Vision aligned with Ark’s high aspirations, high expectations of self and others
Other
• Commitment to equality of opportunity and the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils
• Willingness to undertake training
• This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Other
• Commitment to equality of opportunity and the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils
• Willingness to undertake training
• This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Attached documents
About Ark Globe Academy
In 2008 Geoffrey Chaucer Secondary and Joseph Lancaster Primary school merged to join the Ark network as Ark Globe Academy. Ark Globe Academy is a mixed all through school with student age ranging from 3-18.
At Ark Globe Academy we have the highest aspirations for all our children to ensure they are prepared for university and inspired to be leaders in their community. We offer our students a first-class education based on high quality teaching and experiences outside of the classroom.
Our school was recognised by the Government in its Parliamentary Review as an example of good practice in education and students make excellent progress at KS4. All our sixth form students received a university offer with 73% of those being a top 3rd university.
Ark Globe Sixth Form is in the top 2% of all sixth forms in the country and has received the Sixth Form of the Year award at the Ark Education Summit 2019.
School Structure
Ark Globe Academy is divided into four small schools Elbrus, McKinley, Kilimanjaro and Everest, also each small school has a Dean. This ensures that personal relationships between pupils and staff develop quickly, and that a culture of excellent behaviour and shared social norms are easier to maintain.
Aims, Vision and Values
Supporting our mission is our Culture Pyramid. The pyramid sets out for students, staff and parents our purpose, our beliefs and our values. This helps to set expectations in our daily lives at Ark Globe Academy. Read more about our culture pyramid here.
Every child has the potential to succeed and there are no excuses not to achieve that success. We expect every Ark Globe Academy students to graduate from our academy with the qualifications, skills and confidence to achieve their ambitions and go on to higher education or their chosen career.
Curriculum
Our curriculum is intended to prepare students for university and to be leaders in their community.
The Ark Globe Curriculum encompasses the total experience of the student, covering a range of activities from what is learnt in the classroom to our expectations of how our students carry themselves, and make decisions, outside of it. For us, education is much more than a qualification; it is a way of being that results in an empowered young person who is able to secure a life of purpose and meaning.
We recognise that attending university is often key to this as, we believe, it provides young people with more choices. As such, the academic, pastoral and cultural curriculum has been designed to prepare students for university and to be leaders in their community. However, we also recognise that there are high quality alternatives to university, and we help students to secure these too. Whatever choice is made, we want it to be an informed one, where our students determine their own future. Read more about our curriculum here.
Our Mission: Preparing our students for university and to be leaders in their community
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Our website: https://arkglobe.org/
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