Director of Mathematics
Harris Academy South Norwood
Croydon
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership (L10-15) + Health Cash Plan + Harris Benefits (see our benefits page for full details)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2017 or sooner
- Apply by:
- 18 November 2016
Job overview
Harris Academy South Norwood is an Outstanding academy with excellent facilities for teaching and learning, operating across two sites and one Governing Body. We have the highest standards of behaviour and expectations and have been recognised by the DFE as being one of the best schools in England for our type of intake, and one of the most effective schools in the country. Our programmes for professionally developing staff are first class.
We are looking for a hardworking, ambitious and inspirational Director of Maths to lead Harris Academy South Norwood towards excellence. You will join a team of 20 dedicated maths teachers and a highly supportive department that is achieving fantastic results including P8 for Maths of 0.58, A* - C of 78% and A* - A of 19%. We will provide excellent CPD support within the academy and from across the Federation with two teaching schools offering the full breadth of leadership courses.
What we are looking for:
- A teacher with the ability to provide leadership, innovation and direction in Maths Learning and Teaching and Cross-Curricular Maths and maintaining Academic Excellence.
- Someone who will lead all staff within Maths Faculty in delivering our vision of an outstanding, inclusive academy with the highest standards of Teaching, Learning and Pupil Progress.
- A person who can develop a safe, secure and healthy environment within the Department to enable staff and students to enjoy Learning.
Why work at Harris Academy South Norwood?
- A dynamic curriculum, delivered through an ethos of mathematics and enterprise and the very best in technology and resources across our two sites
- A warm, ambitious family of staff and governors with a passion for learning
- Excellent personal and professional development opportunities through the Harris Federation network
- Generous Harris benefits and rewards package - see our benefits page for further information
For more information about this position or to arrange a visit to the Academy, please email Elouise Gillette at GilletteE@harrissouthnorwood.org.uk or telephone 0208 653 1661 ext 205.
Harris Academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
You can apply online via our careers website and applications can be completed from any device. To start your application and to download the job information pack, please follow the link apply – https://careers.harrisfederation.org.uk/vacancy/director-of-maths-281859.html
Closing Date 18/11/2016
Interview Date Interviews will be requested as and when applications are received
For more information about career development, opportunities and our Harris benefits, visit www.harriscareers.org.uk to discover what we offer. THINK TEACHING. THINK HARRIS.
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About Harris Academy South Norwood
- Harris Academy South Norwood
- Cumberlow Avenue, South Norwood
- London
- SE25 6AE
- United Kingdom
Harris Academy South Norwood is an 11-18 Academy for 1,100 students that opened in September 2007, located in a purpose built, state-of-the-art new building.
Harris Academy South Norwood is an outstanding Academy and has excellent facilities for teaching and learning. We have the highest standards of behaviour and expectations. We have been recognised by the DFE as being one of the best schools in England for our type of intake and one of the most effective schools in the country, with pupil progress in the top 1% nationally. Our programmes for professionally developing staff are first class.
The Academy is a happy, hard-working and highly ambitious community in which students and staff treat one another with care and respect. It combines traditional values of discipline and good-manners with contemporary best practice in teaching and technology. We offer a broad and balanced curriculum with a specialism in Enterprise.
Our Sixth Form has grown to be the largest in the Federation, from 43 students in 2007 to 380 in 2013. We are full in all other year groups and we believe this is a testament to the reputation and continued success of the academy.
Academy Ethos
A vision for every teacher, every student and every leader to be outstanding: the expectation is to foster a culture of academic excellence, ambition and aspiration. All students yet in particular our most vulnerable are nurtured and cared for in a holistic way.
There is a culture of high expectations for all students, which underpins every development in the Academy. Harris Academy South Norwood has developed flexible and creative approaches to teaching and learning that raises standards for all.
Using the specialism of Business and Enterprise six core principles have been established that are recognised across the Academy as promoting enterprising learning:
· Learning first
· High aspirations
· Business environment
· Celebrate success
· Growing confidence
· Spirit of enterprise
An Academy ethos of encouragement is central to the promotion of good learning. Rewards are one of the means of achieving this, playing a motivational role in helping students to realise that good behaviour and high achievement is valued.
Academy Specialism
Enterprise
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