Head of House
Stratford School Academy
Newham
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- £50668 - £55146
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2019
- Apply by:
- 19 May 2019
Job overview
We want to talk to you if you are interested in working with us next year as a Head of House. Our pastoral systems are well established and highly effective. Our vision is to make our pupils the authors of their own life stories and not the subjects of them. Our house teams are pivotal to this aim.
We agree with Viviane Robinson when she writes:
"If staff and students do not feel physically and psychologically safe, if discipline codes are perceived as unfair or inconsistently enforced, then little progress is likely in the improvement of teaching and learning." (Student Centred Leadership, by Professor Viviane Robinson).
So we have implemented a very consistent systematic approach to our pastoral systems and our expectations of our pupils.
We have 6 parallel Houses of 250 pupils organised into 7 vertical tutor groups (with Years 7 to 11 in equal measure). The Head of House is assisted by a Behaviour Lead teacher and an Attendance Lead teacher leads each House.
The focus of the House work is on getting our pupils into school (attendance is above average) and spending time meeting and talking to the parents of those who don’t always behave themselves, don’t always do their work in class and don’t go along with our arrangements to get them back on track – because almost always their parents will do everything they can to support us because they care about their children.
Our House system means the six heads of House are doing exactly the same job so they can share ideas, talk through problems and generally learn together and from each other.
We try to look after our staff. We provide travel loans and have cycle to work, parking permit and childcare voucher schemes. All staff get priority admission to the school for their children. Teachers have lower than average teaching loads and we don’t expect them to do cover – so you have time to do the job properly. Our school dinners are well worth eating and you get free tea & coffee all day made by a qualified barista. Last but not least, you get to work with very nice people and pupils.
If interested, call me, Ashley Dixon (the Deputy Headteacher) on 0208 586 8726; or Alastair Mossman, our HR Manager on 0203 823 2065 or download a copy of the Job Description, Person Specification and our application form from our website - click here - and submit your completed application form to a.mossman@stratfordschoolacademy.org by 10am on Monday 20th May 2019; alternatively complete the online TES application form. Selection process will take place the week of 20th May 2019.
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About Stratford School Academy
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Vision
We are a mixed, all ability, and non-faith school. Our focus is our local community but our outlook is global. We affirm what we have in common just as much as we celebrate what makes us different.
We believe that education is an intrinsic good that should be enjoyed by all. As educators we will play our part in forming citizens who have a moral compass and understand and accept their responsibility for the well being of others.
At the same time, as a publicly funded educational institution, we have a responsibility to create public value and to succeed to the best of our abilities against those measures by which we are held accountable. We accept this responsibility
School is an important step on the road to learning but it is not the only one.
There are some things that we must all learn now and much else that we will need to learn in the future. We all learn from our families, our communities, our employers and our peers. To this end we must teach our students not just what they need to know now but also to become independent learners who understand how to learn – people who, when they leave us, can travel the road to education by themselves.
We know that people learn in different ways but that for all of us learning is a social process. We will use new technologies to accommodate this reality. We will create a culture at Stratford School founded on finding answers to two questions: What do we currently know about how we all learn and how can we implement our understanding within our school? And: What isn't working and how can we make it better?
We will do everything we can with the resources at our disposal to provide each pupil in our school with a personal education that is enjoyable, that leads to appropriate qualifications and that lays the foundation for further learning.
The world in which we live is changing fast, education is no different. We must therefore create open and flexible structures, both human and physical, that can quickly respond to change.
But we must not lose sight of the students at the heart of our school; we must see the education of each and every one of them in the round and ensure it is conducted in a human scale environment.
No student should be anonymous at Stratford School Academy.
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