Assistant Principal

About our Academy

Oasis Academy Silvertown was planned and founded by the West Silvertown community who dreamed of having a local school which ensured both academic excellence as well as nurturing care for local children. After many years of discussions, plans and applications to the Department for Education, the academy opened in September 2014 in portacabins and finally moved into its permanent home in September 2022.

Our academy vision is to ensure that all of our students become ‘Ready for University, Ready to Lead’. We continue to be inspired by the original dreams that the community had for our school, creating an environment where we have high academic aspirations for every student as well as ensuring we support and challenge each child into growing and developing as a leader. Our small size means that every child is known by our staff and that we have a strong community feel where children want to learn and to behave well. We will always be a small school, but are in our final period of expansion as we move towards full student capacity (600 students, September 2027).

The academy has been through considerable change and challenge in recent years. We are now just over a year in to our improvement journey, ensuring that we raise student outcomes through a focus on high aspirations, strong relationships and love for learning. Results improved in Summer 2025 but we have a lot of work to do to make the academy what we know if can be for our young people and to reach the outcomes that we know our students are capable of.

We believe that school is crucially important for young people, but that they will develop best when also engaged with their local community. As a result, we work closely with local organisations to ensure that our children have the very best opportunities to learn, to be supported and to build relationships with local professionals.

Our Ethos and values
"Ready for University. Ready to Lead."
All young people will be ‘Ready for university, Ready to lead’ by the time that they leave Oasis Academy Silvertown.
‘Ready for university’ represents our commitment to academic excellence, the very best teaching and learning and opportunities for our students to explore their interests and strengths. This means that by the time that they leave us, they have the qualifications, choice, confidence and opportunity to step in to university, an apprenticeship, running their own business or success in their career.

‘Ready to lead’ speaks of the strength of character, confidence and proactive approach that we teach and develop in our students so that they become people who can speak up, make decisions, support others and make a difference in their communities.
This vision will be achieved through relentlessly high aspirations for every child, a commitment to strong relationships and the living out of our 5 Be’s.

Oasis Academy Silvertown Values:
Be proud: We are proud of everything that makes us who we are: our story, family, race, strengths, religion and interests. We are proud to be a part of the Oasis Academy Silvertown community.
Be professional: We take our education seriously, knowing that every minute matters. Our professionalism is seen in our uniform, our timekeeping, our conduct and our readiness to learn.
Be nice: We know that strong character and strong relationships are central to all success and everything that we do. We develop our character through the 9 Habits.
Be resilient: We believe that success is a result of hard work, that failure and set backs are a part of the process and that we can get a little better every day, at our learning, in our character and in our relationships with others.
Be independent: We know that to become leaders we need to be independent in the way that we organise ourselves, being ready to learn, in our ability to make choices and decisions and in pursuing our own interests.

Our offer to you
We are seeking an exceptional people who have high aspirations, love learning and believe in the power of strong relationships. Joining us, you will benefit from:

* Working with a newly formed, passionate, dedicated and supportive team developing a small and growing academy

* Working in a values-led organisation, focused on pursuing social justice and the excellent education that all of our students deserve
* Serving a diverse and aspirational community
* Being supported by a strong, national MAT with shared resources, subject and leadership networks and training and development opportunities

* Working in an academy that values its staff with smart policies that consider carefully how to enable them to flourish
Other benefits include

* The Oasis benefits package
* Cycle-to-work Incentive
* Healthcare Cash Plan Scheme
* Free eye tests
* Flexible working opportunities
* Integrated IT provision to support teaching, including your own laptop and iPad