Director of Learning - Science
Rugby Free Secondary School
Warwickshire
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- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS - TLR 1B (£10,000) in the first instance (to be reviewed after 1 term)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 14 February 2022
Job overview
Welcome to Rugby Free Secondary School! RFSS opened in 2016 and moved into a brand-new purpose-built facility in 2019.
In 2019, following a difficult Ofsted inspection, a new headteacher, Samirah Roberts, joined the school. We are extremely proud to say that following our most recent Ofsted inspection in July 2021, RFSS is now officially a ‘Good’ school - only the third school in the country to make this transition from inadequate across all areas! Whilst we are proud of this achievement,
particularly during a pandemic, we are continually looking to evolve and develop, and this year opened the doors to our brand-new Sixth Form!
This school is committed to providing success for all its students and providing a workplace that supports its staff to ensure they can work to the best of their ability for our students every day. In recent times, we have worked hard to ensure relationships for learning are at the center of our school, whilst also redesigning the curriculum and striving for consistently high-quality and teaching and learning.
Our core values of kindness, curiosity, collaboration, respect, resilience, and endeavour underpin everything that we do and make us what we are. Both staff and students communicate with each other using these values, and these are also shared with our community, who also are integral to our school’s progress.
If you feel that you could bring further impetus to our drive to improve the provision for our students and have the necessary energy, enthusiasm and sense of humour to take us forward at this exciting time, then please get in touch.
To arrange a visit to school or an informal discussion with the Headteacher, please call Mrs Baljit Mander, the Headteacher’s PA on 01788 222060 or email baljit.mander@rugbyfreesecondary.co.uk
To find more detailed information on the role please read the job description and person specification.
To apply, please use the quick apply function on the TES website.
We reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy at any time.
Closing date for applications: Monday 14th February 2022
Interviews: w/c Monday 14th February 2022
Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow (LT2) is committed to safeguarding children; successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. LT2 is always happy to receive speculative applications from excellent teachers and support staff.
Attached documents
About Rugby Free Secondary School
Welcome to Rugby Free Secondary School
‘Pupils benefit from a school community that includes pupils from a wide range of different backgrounds and cultures. There is a culture in which pupils see these differences as a positive thing. Uniqueness is valued and celebrated. Pupils feel confident ‘to be themselves’ at Rugby Free Secondary School. (Ofsted ‘Good’: July 2021)’
At Rugby Free Secondary School, we aim to foster kindness and pride, whilst maximising our academic and personal potential. We believe that all of our students should be happy and safe, whilst demonstrating the limitless endeavour and resilience required to succeed by striving for excellence. To achieve these goals, our school ethos is underpinned by the foundations of mutual respect, positive relationships and genuine curiosity. This is encompassed in our educational philosophy of creating more articulate, organised and progressive learners, and the desire to create both independent and collaborative learners who are proud to be educated at Rugby Free Secondary School. Alongside this, we focus on broadening our students’ core subject knowledge and understanding of the wider world. As a consequence, quality-first Teaching and Learning is at the centre of our school’s ethos, and is the key priority for all staff. Our aim is for teachers to deliver high-quality lessons to all year groups, whilst also being supported to develop through pertinent and purposeful internal and external CPD that is bespoke. Learning is integral to everything we do at RFSS. We ensure that all of our students, regardless of gender, ethnicity or ability, receive the best possible learning experiences, to enable them to achieve and maximise their potential. Here at RFSS, we continually support students to develop a love of learning to help them become learners for life, in order to equip them with the knowledge and skills that they will need in the real-world. This is also the case with our teaching staff, who continuously develop and update their own pedagogical practices, through Action Research projects and other bespoke professional development sessions.
Please find below link to our website with the latest Ofsted report when we were graded as ‘Good’.
https://www.rugbyfreesecondary.co.uk/ofsted
Our Values are:
- Kindness – The quality of friendliness, generosity, consideration, honesty
- Collaboration – The belief that working and learning with others will lead to greater success
- Curiosity – A strong desire to know and to learn
- Resilience - The ability to recover quickly and learn from the difficulties we face
- Respect - To appreciate the importance of understanding and admiration for others and self
- Endeavour - The belief that hard work is needed to achieve something we can be proud of.
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