Head of Junior School (Primary, Year 5 and 6)
King Solomon Academy
Westminster
- Expired
- Salary:
- Highly competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 12 October 2022
Job overview
We are seeking an exceptional leader, ready to join the leadership team in our high-performing school and to contribute to showing what education can achieve.
KSA aims to transform the lives of its pupils. Our mission is to provide a rigorous education that prepares our pupils for success at university and beyond, irrespective of their starting point. Our teachers and leaders do whatever it takes to make this a reality.
We are excited to offer the new role of Head of Junior School. Alongside playing their part in the overall leadership of the whole primary school, this role will take leadership of the Junior School, leading nearly two hundred pupils across Year 5 and Year 6. It is an exciting opportunity to ensure excellent outcomes and excellent culture for our pupils at a crucial stage of their all-through journey as they transition out of our Younger Years Site in Year 4 through to being ready to transition into Secondary in Year 7.
Senior leaders at KSA provide strategic and operational leadership across many areas beyond their immediate remit, and as such the successful candidate will have a real opportunity to have a significant impact on the future of the whole school. The scope of this leadership role means it is not class-based; the Head of Juniors spends the vast majority of their time leading curriculum and teacher development rather than teaching. Experience in leadership of maths is highly desirable, but not necessary.
This role could be an excellent next step for an experienced primary senior leader coming out of being class-based and keen to take on headship in the future. It might also suit an experienced secondary leader eager to make the transition into learning more about primary leadership. Whilst we recognise this role might be something of a jump for a current middle leader, we are willing to consider applications from less experienced leaders who are 100% aligned to King Solomon Academy’s values, mission and approach and can evidence significant impact in their career to date.
For more information about the role and our school, click here to view the full job pack.
How to apply:
This role is open to internal and external candidates. To apply, follow the link at http://kingsolomonacademy.org/current-vacancies by 11am on Wednesday 12th October. For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Shaheen Riaz, at s.riaz@kingsolomonacademy.org and 0207 563 6901.
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About King Solomon Academy
King Solomon Academy is an all-through school for 3 - 18 year olds in Lisson Grove.
Pupils and their immense potential are at the heart of the academy. They live and work by the philosophy that there are no excuses and no short cuts to success, and promote excellence in every aspect of academy life.
Aims, Vision and Values
Our mission is to provide our pupils with a rigorous and transformational education which prepares them for success at university and beyond. We ensure that every pupil achieves academic success and has the real option of going to university. We want to make university education something which is accessible, exciting and aspirational. We believe our pupils work hard towards this goal because we make it real for them. We name our classes after well-known university cities and we name each year group by the year in which they will graduate from sixth form. We run residential trips to universities to open their eyes to the opportunties that university study can deliver.
In order to make our dreams for our pupils a reality, we foster values and approaches that transform the lives of our pupils. At the heart of our approach is that we are an all-through school with a thriving nursery provision. We believe in investing in knowing our pupils and their families extremely well, and we prioritise our pupils making extraordinary progress in the early years of their education. This sense of long-term commitment is core to our approach.
We have high expectations for all of our pupils, and believe that with great teaching and a lot of love and care, every child here can fulfil their potential.This both warm and strict approach means pupils feel safe and secure in the school but also confident to contribute to the future of the school and their community.
Long term, we aim to play our part in removing the educational disadvantage currently experienced by those born into economic deprivation our country. We strive to create role models and leaders in our community and through them to create a safer, fairer, and happier society.
Our vision
High expectations We are climbing the mountain to university
Excellent teaching We love teaching and learning and place it at the heart of all our work.
A rigorous and transformational curriculum Our all-through curriculum is carefully designed and implemented to ensure that our pupils have a journey from nursery to university
Exemplary Character Our focus on high quality relationships creates a powerful culture which ensures that our pupils develop exemplary behaviour and character.
A long-term commitment to every pupil As one of a handful of all-through schools with consistent cohorts of children across primary and secondary, we are able to develop a unique team and family orientated culture which ensures that each of our pupils and families are known and cared for as individuals.
Investment in our team We choose to work at KSA because we know we will work together to address educational inequality.
Efficient and effective organisation We carefully organise the operational and educational activities in our school to maximise our collective impact and make our work sustainable.
Specialisms
Like all Ark academies, King Solomon Academy has a maths specialism. Proficiency in maths is essential in every sphere of adult life, so we invest in the resources to attract and train the best maths teachers. We aim to produce confident and proficient mathematicians. We will ensure that pupils acquire skills as early as possible. We will help every student to maximise their skills and qualifications and offer those with particular ability the chance to accelerate their achievement in maths and further maths.
King Solomon Academy is a music specialist school. We chose music as a specialism because it is fun and inspiring and can involve every pupil. We believe that being part of the KSA orchestra will create a great sense of shared identity as well enabling our pupils to benefit from the known academic, intellectual and social advantages of musical training.
Ofsted
King Solomon Academy was inspected by Ofsted in May 2013 and was graded as "outstanding" in all areas. You can read the full report here.
Among the points highlighted by the Inspectors in the academy's first full inspection report since opening, they say:
“King Solomon Academy is an outstanding and unique 21st century school". Among many other points Ofsted praise KSA's creation and inspiration of "a community of enthusiastic learners, who are passionate about achieving academic excellence."
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