Associate Assistant Principal - French
Charles Read Academy
Lincolnshire
- £49,019 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- L7 : Teachers' Pension Scheme
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2022
- Apply by:
- 23 May 2022
Job overview
Do you want to be part of a family team who are committed to working together to deliver opportunities for all, that genuinely cherishes individuality and celebrates creativity - all in a rural setting?
We seek an inspiring and dynamic leader who has the passion and commitment to work as part of a team dedicated to achieving outstanding outcomes for all. The successful candidate will provide strong leadership as part of SLT and be accountable for a faculty area. They will drive up standards ensuring good and outstanding provision and outcomes for every student.
The specific duties of the role are flexible and will be adapted to suit the experience of the successful candidate and may vary over time to suit school needs. Responsibility for year 11 data and intervention is likely to be the main responsibility of the role.
The successful candidate will have middle leadership experience and be ready to take the next step into the Senior Leadership team. They will have the expertise and initiative to promote outstanding provision and create an academically rigorous and supportive environment for all students.
There is also great scope to progress to different schools and roles across the Trust allowing staff opportunities for Post-16 teaching, leadership positions and the chance to take on network-wide responsibilities as appropriate.
About our Academy
The Charles Read Academy is an 11-16 school in Corby Glen, Lincolnshire and it serves the villages between Stamford, Bourne and Grantham. In 2016, we were ranked one of the most improved secondary schools in the country in the performance tables and were proud to be judged 'good' by Ofsted in February 2022.
We have a strong sense of purpose and are fervently committed to the achievement of every individual. We aim to provide a high-quality education in a safe, happy, caring and focused environment. We encourage all students to embody our values of confidence, resilience, ambition, courage, respect and aspiration. We are intent on developing a love of learning amongst our students, offering them a broad and balanced curriculum, enhanced by a range of enrichment activities designed to support their personal growth. We encourage all students to take responsibility for their own learning.
We are ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. We are very proud of our community and believe we offer something genuinely different and exciting for those who join us. Our rural setting allows us the privilege of working in a stimulating and dynamic school that, combined with our co-educational ethos and smaller size, engenders a culture that genuinely cherishes individuality, aims to instil creativity and independence and celebrates open-minded thinking. We are student focused and we believe that there are no limits for outstanding learning and outstanding achievement. We have high expectations of our students and staff, high aspirations for them and demonstrate complete belief in them all.
Who we are looking for:
A leader who...
Has the capacity to generate energy and enthusiasm for learning
Will be able to raise achievement through motivating, challenging and inspiring our students
Will be be a reflective and resilient practitioner
Will have a commitment to inclusion
Will help foster a culture of high expectations and achievement within the department
Will have a commitment to the school’s ethos and vision
Will be able to establish strong relationships with students and staff
Will model professional standards across all areas of work.
Our schools work as a team and achieve great things through these partnerships. Our subject specialists, our trust-wide intranet, a common curriculum and our online learning resources all help us share knowledge and expertise simplifying work processes allowing staff to focus on high quality teaching.
We value our staff highly, and take work/life balance seriously; we realise a happy staff is an effective staff. The leadership of the Academy is determined to create an environment where teachers can carry out their core role of delivering excellent lessons. We have a clear and simple behaviour policy that is easy to administer. If action is needed beyond the basic classroom routines the pastoral and senior teams take the burden away from the teachers, conducting detentions, following up and dealing with parents on your behalf.
In addition to this, teachers are trusted to be professionals and as such we have:
No unannounced observations
No lesson grading
Meeting and INSET day time for joint team planning
Continuing Professional Development and Support
We aim to bring out the best in you as well as in our students and we understand the importance of quality CPD. Charles Read offers a range of development opportunities, with both internal and external providers for staff at different stages in their career. We are responsive to staff needs supporting them with training and development so that they can deliver excellent teaching.
Being part of the David Ross Education Trust enables us to collaborate with a range of staff from across the trust both Primary and Secondary as well as accessing CPD from HMIs and Ofsted trained staff. We are always keen in developing all our staff in which ever career direction they wish to go.
Ours is a warm and compassionate community where students explore their creativity and discover their passions working alongside staff who are committed to enriching the lives of their students. We really believe that we are starting to do something really special for our students.
The David Ross Education Trust (DRET) mission is to give every child attending one of our schools a world-class education.
Broadening the horizons of young people by inspiring students to become their confident, academic best via an education that creates academically gifted, confident, well-rounded young people in the classroom, in the workplace and in their communities.
Whatever your role you will contribute towards creating a rich and exciting learning environment that also offers our students an unrivalled package of sporting and cultural enrichment.
Our aim is to be the country’s top-performing multi-academy trust in the country. Recognised as a nationwide system leader, the Trust runs 34 schools across the country, ranging from small rural primaries to much larger secondary schools in urban areas, our first All Through school and a special school which caters for pupils aged 2-19 who have a diverse range of special educational needs.
Apply now
To complete our on-line application form, please follow the link to our website.
Early applications are advised. We receive high numbers of applications for our roles and therefore have to close the vacancy prior to the closing date in order to review candidates' details against our job criteria before shortlisting or re-opening the vacancy.
An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.
The David Ross Education Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive learning and working environment for our students and staff.
It is our objective to ensure that job applicants and staff are treated solely on the basis of their merits, abilities and potential. We do not discriminate against any applicants on the basis of any protected characteristics.
Attached documents
About Charles Read Academy
- Charles Read Academy
- Bourne Road, Corby Glen, Grantham
- Lincolnshire
- NG33 4NT
- United Kingdom
At CRA we have a strong sense of purpose and are fervently committed to the achievement of every individual. We aim to provide a high-quality education for the 11-16 year olds in our local area in a safe, happy, caring and focused environment. We encourage all students to embody our values of confidence, resilience, ambition, courage, respect and aspiration.
The vision we are passionately committed to providing is an exciting education where there is a relentless focus on high quality teaching and learning, a commitment to a broad and balanced curriculum and an absolute dedication to providing a wide range of opportunities that allow students to excel at what they are good at and enjoy as well as developing new talents, supported by excellent pastoral care. Students will gain transferrable life skills and they will know that they can positively shape their lives through choice not chance. As a school community we are energised and motivated by the prospect of changing lives, of raising community-wide aspiration and improving the life chances for all students.
We are student and learning focused. There are no limits to outstanding learning and outstanding achievement. Students, staff, governors and parents are totally focused on developing and improving the learning of the students underpinned by positive and respectful relationships. We have high expectations of them, high aspirations for them and demonstrate complete belief in them. As a small academy we can quickly identify barriers to learning putting in support where necessary and equally spot talent and potential giving guidance, support and regularly offering exclusive enrichment opportunities, scholarships and bursaries so that our students can pursue their various talents.
We are proud to be at the heart of our local community, and regularly work with primary schools in the local area, running programmes throughout the year to secure a positive transition to secondary school. Building strong partnerships with parents is essential to realising a student’s potential therefore we are in regular contact with our families ensuring lines of communication are open.
Ethos, Vision and Values
At CRA we aim to provide a high-quality education in a safe, happy, caring and focused environment. We encourage all students to embody our values of confidence, resilience, ambition, courage, respect and aspiration.
Students develop Confidence through interacting positively with our academic and opportunity-enriched curriculum. They show Resilience in how they approach their studies to secure continual improvement and over time develop strong oracy and literacy skills enabling them to talk about their learning and communicate effectively. They show Ambition aiming to be the best they can be and can articulate what they need to do to improve. They develop Courage taking risks and removing barriers to learning; nothing holds them back. Students show Respect for themselves, others and for the environment, always leading by example. They always aim high demonstrating an Aspiration to achieve the best jobs, college and university places in the pursuit of excellence.
Through the promotion of these values and the ethos of the House system we encourage the students to feel a sense of belonging. We help them develop a strong cultural awareness becoming citizens who make positive contributions to our 21st century society. We believe all students can succeed given appropriate self-belief, challenge and support. Whilst we guide and nurture students holistically, we encourage them to take responsibility for their own learning and personal development ensuring they become lifelong learners who determine their own futures.
Whilst we demand high standards from our students we equip them with life skills to support them on their learning journey. They feel valued and understand they can positively shape their life through choice not chance.
Our priority is simply to provide an excellent education for all.
Curriculum Aims:
To create:
- ambitious students who enjoy learning, and make better than expected progress.
- Confident, culturally aware individuals who are able to form healthy and respectful relationships underpinned by our values
- Responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society.
Strategic Intent
To develop a curriculum which:
- Creates an aspirational high achievement culture
- Personalises learning and opportunities
- Is broad and balanced with options that maximise student progress
- Promotes a growth-mindset culture creating opportunities for all students to suceed
- Raises academic achievement
- Which is enjoyable and enables students to develop and flourish as well-rounded individuals
Curriculum Rationale / Principles:
- Progress is planned for across a 5-year programme
- We maximise exposure to English, maths and science whilst retaining and a varied curriculum offer including the humanities, languages, sport and the arts.
- Additional time is given to English, maths and science to ensure that students have the necessary skills to compete in the world of work.
- Learning programmes support transition and effectively induct the students into secondary school life.
- We offer support and challenge helping students to progress beyond national expectations
- The curriculum is forever evolving to reflect the needs of our learners and to provide them with the essential skills needed in the 21st century.
- We are student focused; there are no limits for outstanding learning and outstanding achievement.
- We have high expectations of students, high aspirations for them and demonstrate complete belief in them.
Principal Sue Jones
Ofsted report
"The school has benefited very significantly from support from a sponsor trust. The trust has made a strong contribution to improving the school’s facilities, strengthening its leadership and improving the quality of teaching. Pupils’ achievement has improved since the last inspection, especially in English, mathematics and science. Pupils made good progress in these subjects last year. Middle-attaining pupils did particularly well. Some pupils made excellent progress. The school’s arrangements to safeguard pupils are strong. Pupils feel safe and know how to stay safe."
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