Head of Department PE
Ark Acton Academy
Ealing
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competetive Inner London
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2019
- Apply by:
- 27 June 2019
Job overview
Job Description: Head of Department PE
Reporting to: Assistant Principal
Location: Ark Acton Academy
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full Time
Salary: Inner London.
The Role
An exciting opportunity has emerged to come and lead a PE Department in a large inner-London school with excellent facilities. At Ark Acton we believe in the fundamental importance of sport as both a great enabler and a great leveller. We want all of our students to experience the joy and heartbreak of a sporting life and to develop excellence in both team and individual pursuits.
As Head of Department, you will lead, develop and manage the effective delivery of an outstanding curriculum, which enables the highest level of student progress and attainment. You will lead the professional community of subject teachers and promote outstanding teaching and learning and a strong school culture within a nurturing and rigorous environment.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership and Management
• Lead, develop and line manage the department’s staff through the provision of CPD, inset training days, supervising NQTs, ITT students and support staff.
• Monitor, evaluate and continually improve the quality of planning, teaching, and assessment of all members of the subject team.
• Manage departmental budget and resources effectively and efficiently.
• Lead behaviour management in the department, securing strong routines for learning, consistent with the academy’s policy, and liaising with tutors and parents when necessary.
• Develop strong partnerships and ensure regular communication with parents and carers.
• Oversee the development of a varied sporting experience and ensure the Academy competes at a regional and ultimately national level in multiple sports.
Improving Teaching & Learning
• Model outstanding teaching and lead collaborative planning and development, including the sharing of resources and best practice within the department.
• Be responsible for tracking student progress across the faculty, analysing all relevant data to make data-driven changes to the curriculum design and intervention strategies and using the data to monitor the performance of subject staff.
• Be accountable for student progress in subject across the school at all key stages, ensuring that all students achieve results in line with, or better than, value-added predictions.
• Monitor the work of the department through rigorous and regular lesson observations, work scrutinies, and provide detailed, constructive feedback.
• Lead joint practice development across the faculty subject teams, ensuring that outstanding practice is shared with all staff in the faculty and the wider school, and work with other department heads to exploit cross-year and cross-curricular links.
• Plan, deliver, monitor and evaluate the curriculum provision and enrichment for all year groups within the department.
• Monitor the identification of and provision for students with individual needs, and develop differentiated learning and teaching methods and schemes of learning.
• Participate actively throughout the network, by attending relevant meetings, and, as appropriate, delivering network-wide training and initiatives
• Work with colleagues, students and families to develop a strong school community.
Other
• Actively promote the safety and welfare of our children and young people
• Ensure compliance with Arks data protection rules and procedures
• Liaise with colleagues and external contacts at all levels of seniority with confidence, tact and diplomacy
• Work with Ark Central and other academies in the Ark network, to establish good practice throughout the network, offering support where required
This job description is not an exhaustive list and you will be expected to carry out any other reasonable tasks as directed by your line manager.
Person Specification: Head of PE
Qualification Criteria
• Qualified to teach in the UK
• Degree in Sport Science or related subject
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
• Demonstrable commitment to raising attainment of all pupils in a challenging classroom environment
• Experience of having designed, implemented and evaluated effective, imaginative and stimulating schemes of work and of leading successful enrichment programmes including establishing a high achieving department within a large school
• Experience of improving the quality of teaching and learning
• Experience leading a team and/or working to support the significant success of others, including professional development and effective management of underperformance
• Experience of interpreting complex student data to drive lesson planning and student progress
• Mastery of and enthusiasm for your subject
• Effective and systematic behaviour management
• Knowledge of the national secondary education system, examinations and curriculum
Behaviours
• Genuine passion for and a belief in the potential of every student
• A robust awareness of keeping children safe, noticing safeguarding and welfare concerns, and understanding how and when to take appropriate action
• Deep commitment to Ark’s mission of providing an excellent education to every student, regardless of background
• Excellent interpersonal, planning and organisational skills
• Resilient, motivated and committed to achieving excellence
• Reflective and proactive in seeking feedback to constantly improve practice
• Commitment to regular and on-going professional development and training to establish outstanding classroom practice.
• Commitment to and understanding of professionalism in line with the National Teaching Standards
Other
• Right to work in the UK
• Commitment to equality of opportunity and the safeguarding and welfare of all students
• Willingness to undertake training
• This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in our academies. In order to meet this responsibility, we follow a rigorous selection process. This process is outlined here, but can be provided in more detail if requested. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
About Ark Acton Academy
At Ark Acton Academy we believe that every child, regardless of background or prior achievement, can be successful if given great teaching and pastoral support. Our mission is to create a school of the highest standard that achieves this through recruiting and training excellent teachers and support staff, and by developing a pastoral system that ensures no child is left behind.
Our mastery curriculum is at the heart of school life and ensures that all students get the opportunity to study academic disciplines and to wrestle with ways of thinking that take them beyond everyday understandings. Alongside this we invest heavily in staff training and development to ensure that every student is taught by a subject expert who is passionate about their subject and its importance to understanding the world around us.
Whilst we want all our students to leave Ark Acton Academy with the currency they need to access the next stage of their education and to have an unrelenting focus on hard work and discipline, we know that getting great exam results is only half of a good education: we are determined to deliver as many opportunities as we can for every child to flourish outside the classroom. We want our students to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with a child from a private school and compete for the same university place or job.
As part of Ark Schools, we have access to world class staff training and development, as well as expertise from across the network. Being part of a family of schools ensures that we can keep learning and evaluating our impact to ensure that every child who comes to Ark Acton leaves as a well-rounded and polite individual with the drive and resources to lead a happy and successful life.
Why work at Ark Acton Academy
At Ark Acton we have stripped away anything we feel gets in the way of being a great teacher so that we can focus on the main thing. This includes:
- Feedback policies that sit at department level and do not require slavish marking of books
- No graded lesson observations or spurious judgements
- No report writing
- No parent’s evenings
- Only 2 data points a year
- No ½ termly data metrics to track progress
- Protected Department meeting time built into the timetable and staff loadings
- Protected curriculum planning time built into the timetable and staff loadings
- A constant SLT presence to maintain our calm, scholarly atmosphere
- A binary behaviour system that enables disruption-free teaching.
Our curriculum
Our purpose as a school is to ensure our young people can go out into the world and live a life of choice and opportunity. We want them to leave Ark Acton having been inducted into systems of worthwhile knowledge that enable them to participate in and shape the national discourse.
In order to achieve this vision for our young people, we place the curriculum at the heart of school life. It drives all other decisions that we make and is the best means we have of demonstrating as a school what we believe in and what we stand for. In essence our curriculum is designed to ensure that all pupils at Acton acquire disciplinary knowledge that they cannot learn at home and that this specified curriculum knowledge is based on the most coherent and tested ways of conceptualising the world that we have.
Alongside our taught academic curriculum we run our co-curricular programme. This programme provides experiences and opportunities for all students to participate in individual and group activities that help them develop essential life skills. Debating and oracy sits at the heart of this model as we aim to enable all our students to develop confidence, articulacy and team-working skills.
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