Head of Computing
Warwick School
Warwickshire
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 2 December 2021
Job overview
To manage all aspects of the teaching and learning process in the Department, within the overall aims of the school.
To support members of the Department in all appropriate ways, e.g. issues of discipline.
To contribute to the well-being and development of the school.
Curriculum.
Plan, implement and review annually schemes of work within the framework of the National Curriculum, where appropriate.
Represent the department in all matters within school relating to the curriculum.
Implement cross curricular and other school policies currently in force.
Assessment and Monitoring.
Where appropriate, organise setting arrangements for teaching, testing and reporting.
Organise the systematic monitoring of the quality of teaching and learning through observation of lessons, monitoring of boys’ work and debate about good practice.
Analyse internal and external examination and pupil targeting data to help guide departmental target setting and forward planning.
Policies and Planning.
Produce and maintain a detailed departmental handbook, carrying forward school aims and policies.
Identify realistic and challenging targets for improvement.
Develop departmental forward plans in the context of whole school policies.
Identify resourcing needs.
Staff Management.
Identify in-service training needs and opportunities; provide appropriate support for experienced and inexperienced teachers, and those with identified weaknesses. Induct and train staff in the department, participate in appraisal arrangements, and where appropriate supervise trainees, newly qualified teachers and gap tutors.
Hold regular departmental meetings, which enable all staff to contribute to planning and policy making, and ensure that records of such meetings are kept and distributed accordingly.
Allocate teaching groups to staff.
Allocate additional responsibilities effectively and equitably within the department.
Advise the Head about recruiting, advertising and appointing new staff.
Supplying references for members of the department as required.
Liaison
Organise GCSE, A Level and other examination entries with the examination officers.
Liaise with other departments in the school.
Liaise with the Head, Deputy Head and Deputy Head (Academic) in all matters concerned with the timetable, curriculum and internal examinations.
Liaise with the Head and Deputy Head in all matters concerned with pastoral care.
Liaise with the Head, Senior Deputy Head, and Deputy Head (Teaching & Learning) in all matters concerned with staff issues.
Liaise with the coordinator of targets and standards concerning pupil tracking and raising academic standards.
Liaise with the Head of Curriculum Support regarding individual pupil learning and behaviour.
Liaise with parents regarding departmental issues.
Liaise with external organisations as appropriate.
Liaise with the Director of Marketing regarding marketing opportunities.
Liaise with the Director of Marketing over issues of departmental publicity.
Arrange for the department to be represented in meetings with other schools, particularly the Junior School and Warwick Group Schools.
Resource Management.
Assess the resourcing needs of the department and produce an annual budget bid.
Keep the department within the agreed budget.
Ensure that the stock and equipment are readily available and used economically.
Advise the librarians on the purchase of specialist books for the library.
Liaise with the Head of ICT with regard to ICT equipment.
Publicity
Promote and publicise the work and achievements of the department.
Health and Safety.
Carry out risk assessments in line with the school’s Health & Safety policy.
Oversee arrangements for the safety of pupils and staff in school and on visits and excursions.
Attached documents
About Warwick School
The oldest boys' school in England, Warwick School has been in continuous existence at least from the days of King Edward the Confessor (reigned 1042-1066) when the fledgling town possessed a school under the tutelage of All Saints' Church. The earliest appearance of Warwick Town in history is in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle under the year 914, and this has long been taken as the date of the foundation of Warwick School.
Very little documentary evidence exists before 1545, when King Henry VIII established, i.e. presumably re-founded, the "King's New School of Warwick." The premises were then in the Guild Hall which then became part of the Lord Leycester Hospital.
Between 1697 and 1879 the school was run in the old college of the Vicars Choral in St Mary's churchyard, and was predominantly a day school. The education, typically for the time, emphasised the classics above all.
The move to the open fields site south of the River Avon eventually brought about a steady rise in numbers – in 1878 there were 44 boys in the school, and by 1906, 110. In that year a merger with the Middle School in Warwick esulted in the modern name of Warwick School being adopted, rather than The King’s School.
Numbers in the 1930s reached 350, with 18 staff and a sixth form of about 40.
By the 1960s there were over 750 pupils and 45 staff. This expansion in numbers, together with a broadening of the curriculum, produced a continuous demand for new buildings. The original Science Block of 1905 survives in its third guise as the modern music department. More modern buildings included the Memorial Gymnasium, 1957, the Guy Nelson Hall and Languages Block of the early 1970s.
Over the past 25 years significant investment has been spent on improving the facilities and accommodating an ever increasing school roll. A new sports pavilion, theatre, a state of the art science building and teaching block have provided new and spacious accommodation and a new school hall is nearing completion.
In 2014 the school celebrated its 1100th anniversary, which provided a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the history and success of the school with all of its dedicated staff and governors, pupils and parents, as well as strengthening our links with the wider community.
The reputation of Warwick School in the local area and beyond has led to the recruitment of excellent staff and pupils and this in turn has resulted in record exam results, outstanding achievements in music, drama and sport and an ever growing programme of extra-curricular activities. The school prides itself on its strong sense of identity and its ability to provide an outstanding all-round education to a wide mix of boys.
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