Head of Geography
Alperton Community School
Brent
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS (£28,098 - £37,866) Inner LondonUPS (£43,184 - £46,829) plus Upto TLR 2A £6,450
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2017
- Apply by:
- 19 March 2017
Job overview
Thank you for taking the time to find out about Alperton Community School.
Alperton Community School is an exceptional school. We are a large, mixed, 11-18 academy with over 300 students in our sixth form. Due to our increased popularity as a school, we will expand our roll from 8 to 10 form entry in September 2017. Alperton Community School is proud to be an inclusive comprehensive school with a student intake that reflects a wonderfully diverse and vibrant local community.
Alperton is a popular shopping destination specialising in Asian food, fashion, music and is renowned for its cultural diversity and the remarkable Shri Sanatan Hindu Temple.
Our most recent Ofsted rating in July 2016 recognised the school as Good with outstanding leadership and management.
The school achieved its best ever set of GCSE results in 2016. The percentage of students achieving 5A*-C grades at GCSE has increased by 22% over the last three years and now stands at 66%. The school is ranked in the top 4% of schools nationally for student progress at GCSE (Progress 8), and ranked in the top 1% for maths and the top 9% for English. Attainment is above national and Brent averages. Student progress at A Level is in the top 10% of schools nationally (ALPS).
We are very fortunate to have opened a new school building in January 2017. The new building has purpose-built specialist Drama, Music, Art and DT facilities, as well as 14 Science laboratories, 10 ICT rooms and a new MUGA.
The Role
We are looking to appoint an outstanding practitioner and talented leader who has the vision and determination to lead our Geography department to achieve outstanding outcomes for all our students.
Geography is a very popular subject at Alperton Community School. All students study Geography until the end of Year 9. There are five GCSE classes in Year 10 and Year 11. The number of students opting to study Geography at A Level has significantly increased over the last two years.
The Person
The successful candidate will be an excellent classroom teacher who can inspire and excite students about their learning and possess recent, relevant, teaching and leadership experience. You will have an innovative approach to creating a Geography curriculum that is inclusive to all students and makes good use of ICT. A sound knowledge and understanding of best practice in the accurate assessment of student work is essential.
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About Alperton Community School
Alperton Community School is a mixed, mainstream secondary school for 11- to 18-year-old students. Located in Wembley, north-west London, it has 1,362 students enrolled.
Alperton Community School was founded in 1922 as Wembley County Grammar School. In 1967, three different schools were combined to form Alperton High School. Then, in the 1990s, the school took control of its own finances through the Local Management of Schools legislation and reopened as Alperton Community School.
Headteacher
Gerard McKenna
Vision and values
Alperton Community School aims to provide an inclusive education that ensures every student reaches their full potential. Teachers want to help each pupil develop academically, physically, socially, morally and spiritually. The school works to mould students into responsible and active citizens. It has specialist status in maths and computing.
The secondary school emphasises the core subjects, but also offers important vocational courses such as business, computing, design and technology, ICT, and health and social care. Alperton has been awarded the Sportsmark for excellence in curriculum provision in PE and has won national competitions in sport and music. Its well-rounded educational offering has enabled many pupils to go to university at Oxford, Cambridge and medical establishments.
Ofsted report
“Quality teaching and learning is at the heart of leaders’ planning and has resulted in a very high degree of consistency in teachers’ use of the assessment system to support pupils’ progress. In the best examples, teachers identify pupils’ needs while planning activities that build upon pupils’ prior learning and rapidly develop it.”
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