Director Of History
Newquay Tretherras
Cornwall
- £65,286 - £72,162 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership 12-16
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2025
- Apply by:
- 23 February 2025
Job overview
Cornwall Education Learning Trust delivers the best possible educational experience for all the young people in our care across mid-Cornwall. At the heart of our organisation is the desire to collaborate across our schools. Developing our curriculum offer together is fundamental to achieving our ambitions.
CELT has recently been recognised as the Trust achieving the top Progress-8 score for disadvantaged students across the entire South-West region in 2023. Disadvantaged students are at the centre of our thinking and priorities, at every level of the Trust.
This is an exciting time to join our Trust as we grow and deepen the collaboration between our schools, harnessing the collective expertise and skills of all our staff. CELT is seeking to appoint an exceptional leader to the new Trust-wide role of Director of History, to lead subject development across our five secondary schools. The successful candidate will coordinate and lead the curriculum development work in History, curating curriculum resourcing and assessment. They will have responsibility for leading Trust-wide professional development opportunities for History teachers. They will work with colleagues from our primary schools and FE provision to ensure, that from cradle to career, our students have a highly ambitious and expertly-sequenced curriculum offer.
The successful candidate will have a track record of leading a team to achieve exceptional outcomes in History and developing a precisely planned and highly impactful curriculum.
The role will be split between a 0.5FTE school-based role at Newquay Tretherras, leading the History department and 0.5FTE leading History across our secondary schools. The Director of History will work with our wider Directors of Subject team to drive curriculum, assessment and pedagogy across our schools. They will work in collaboration with the Trust Data Team and School Improvement Team to quality assure the provision in all our schools.
Our five secondary schools are all located a short distance apart, nestled in beautiful mid Cornwall. Each school has a unique identity and strong moral purpose.
If you require further information or would like to discuss the role, please contact:
Doug O'Brien (School Improvement Team) dobrien@celtrust.org
Or to discuss the Head of History role within Newquay Tretherras or arrange a visit to the school please contact:
Gemma Harries (Headteacher, Newquay Tretherras) GEH@tretherras.net
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About Newquay Tretherras
WELCOME TO NEWQUAY TRETHERRAS
You will always be guaranteed a warm welcome at Newquay Tretherras, an inspiring and vibrant school at the heart of the Newquay community. Tretherras has a forty year history of providing education of the highest quality in an inspirational setting on the North Cornish coast.
Tretherras students are a pleasure to teach and learn with. They know that a high quality education is important for their life chances and they take full advantage of the incredible range of opportunities and facilities offered to them at school, both within and beyond the classroom.
The Board of Directors, together with the Leadership Team, are committed and ambitious for every single young person. Our talented and specialist staff don’t just go the extra mile, they go the extra hundred miles for the students in their care! We are passionately dedicated to ensuring students succeed in every possible way, whatever their talents or ambitions.
Our relationships and ethos at Tretherras are inclusive and special: we are a family in which everyone matters. It is, without doubt, a very happy place to be and morale is extremely high across the whole academy.
Students are offered a vast array of opportunities at Tretherras to grow and develop into responsible, well rounded individuals. We aim to equip all our young people with the necessary confidence and aspiration to challenge themselves, and us, to achieve the highest standards possible.
At Tretherras, we offer students an inclusive and extensive curriculum which offers aspirational opportunities for all to succeed. To achieve this, we have strong and caring people and structures in place to support students pastorally and academically every step of the way.
Our strong belief is that Tretherras is a place where dreams can come true. We are an inspirational learning community, working together to support our students and staff to become the best that they can be.
As an academy that achieves examination results that are consistently and significantly above national averages, we know it is the quality of our relationships with parents, staff and students and our aspirational and inclusive ethos, which is the key to this success. Quite simply, we put every one of our students at the centre of everything we do.
We look forward to receiving applications from candidates who share our ethos and who want to become part of our Newquay Tretherras 'family' to ensure that our students are inspired, achieve remarkable things and become the best they can possibly be at Tretherras.
Ms G Harries,
Interim Head of School
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