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Head of Faculty - Mathematics

Head of Faculty - Mathematics

Friern Barnet School Specialist Arts College

Barnet

  • Expired
Salary:
MPR/UPR (TLR 1)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
January 2020 or earlier
Apply by:
23 June 2019

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a bright and committed individual to lead a professional and high-achieving team within a well-respected and successful school. 

Are you an enthusiastic and ambitious leader who can raise standards across the school?  Do you have the ability to motivate and challenge all of our students, including our most able mathematicians?

Due to the successful promotion of our current post holder, we are seeking to appoint an exceptional teacher and leader to join us with the energy and enthusiasm needed to inspire and motivate both students and staff. The candidate must have high expectations and want to work within a school where we share an ambition for our students of all abilities. Applicants will have excellent interpersonal skills and the expertise to deliver inspirational learning experiences for young people of all abilities, in which all students can achieve their best. The applicant will need to have the ability to teach up to GCSE level. 

The successful candidate will maintain a focus on strategies to sustain the highest quality of teaching and learning in mathematics to achieve outstanding outcomes. You will be able to lead, strategically plan and motivate both students and teachers to achieve their full potential and lead the faculty on to further success.

Friern Barnet School provides a comprehensive curriculum whilst maintaining a special emphasis on the creative arts.  We are hugely ambitious academically for our pupils, ensuring that they secure the results to go on to good universities and on to fulfilling careers. We also want them to live lives which are personally and socially fulfilling, developing a love for art, music, dance, theatre and culture which will enrich the whole of their lives. 

The school has a comprehensive induction programme and excellent professional development opportunities. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to enhanced clearance through the Disclosure Barring Service.

We are looking for someone with ideas, drive and ambition towards success. The successful person will not be afraid to trial innovative ideas aligned to having the highest expectations of all students.


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About Friern Barnet School Specialist Arts College

Friern Barnet is a mixed, comprehensive, non-denominational secondary school without sixth form in North London. It is a community state school which will provide 815 places to secondary pupils aged 11-16, when fully subscribed.

The became a Specialist Arts College in Performing Arts in September 2004. Despite having no official sixth form, the school works in partnership with the nearby Woodhouse College, which offers opportunities for students and acts as their sixth form.

Principal

Simon Horne

Values and Vision

The school motto is “Enjoy and Excel”. It is academically ambitious, aiming to ensure that its students have personally and socially fulfilling lives.

Friern Barnet believes that a strong grounding in the arts, notably art, music, dance, theatre and culture, can enhance students' learning, making sure that each child is challenged and rewarded in equal measure. The school is about more than just about academic achievement: students are taught to become responsible citizens as much as they are encouraged to be independent learners.

Ofsted

"Following the Ofsted visit to the school on 18 April 2018, there is no change to the school’s current overall effectiveness grade of good as a result of this inspection."

“Teaching is good overall and a small proportion is outstanding. Good attention is given to individual pupils in lessons, allowing all groups of pupils to make progress. Senior leaders and those in charge of subjects carry out checks on the quality of teaching, and on the progress pupils make, on a regular basis. As a result, the rate of progress in English and mathematics is improving quickly.”

View Friern Barnet School Specialist Arts College’s latest Ofsted report

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