Head of Mathematics Department (Plus TLR £11,790)
Walton High School
Staffordshire
- £38,690 - £41,604 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Head of Maths Department
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 10 May 2021
Job overview
Walton High School is an oversubscribed, high-achieving school, situated in a pleasant residential area on the edge of Cannock Chase.
Our school aims include:
1. To enable every student to fulfil his or her potential
2. To educate the whole student by fostering an ethos where academic success and the development of personal skills and attributes are equally important
3. To create an environment that promotes mutual respect between staff and students
4. To encourage creativity, flair, imagination and enthusiasm in our students
5. To equip our students with the knowledge, skills and personal qualities that will best prepare them for their future lives
6. To sustain a partnership with parents and the local community through effective communication to support our students
Our school:
• We are passionate about using evidence-informed teaching and learning to ensure that all students achieve highly.
• We value teachers as experts in their subject, with high levels of trust and autonomy.
• We have a strong in-school CPD programme which enables all teachers to improve.
• We are committed to staff wellbeing and have taken steps to reduce teachers’ workload including sensible feedback principles and reduced reporting requirements and schedules.
• Our pupils want to learn and demonstrate excellent standards of behaviour.
• We have a large and comprehensive sixth form.
• We have a vibrant house system.
• We offer students a broad range of extra-curricular clubs and activities.
The maths department:
• We are a department of 11 maths specialists who enjoy being part of a supportive team.
• We are committed to supporting all students to achieve.
• We strive to develop student enjoyment of the subject through lessons, clubs, trips and competitions.
• We offer smaller class sizes.
• Pupils achieve excellent results.
• All members of the department have the opportunity to teach the full age and ability range.
• There are currently 7 sets of Mathematics, Core Maths and Further Maths in our Sixth Form and we run a Gifted and Talented programme as well as intervention where needed.
We are now seeking a talented mathematics leader who will continually drive to incorporate evidence informed practice in the work of every maths teacher in the department to ensure our students are given every opportunity to experience success.
This is an excellent opportunity for a teacher wishing to move further into middle leadership, or for an experienced middle leader wishing to develop their skills in an excellent school with a strong and passionate mathematics department.
Please see school website at www.waltonstaffs.com for application form and further details.
This position is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Further details regarding this check are available from school or by visiting https://disclosure.capitarvs.co.uk/stoke
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Attached documents
About Walton High School
- Walton High School
- The Rise, Walton-on-the-hill, Stafford
- Staffordshire
- ST17 0LJ
- United Kingdom
The School’s Statement
The fundamental intention of Walton High School in order to serve its’ community, is to sustain an ethos throughout the entire school that promotes teaching, learning and achievement of the highest quality thereby enabling every individual to be valued and valuable in their own right.
The Aims of Walton High School
1. To ensure the existence and promotion of an ethos which delivers social justice through mutual respect and tolerance of, and for each other, leading to self enrichment gained from understanding differences embraced within our community.
2. To provide the opportunity for every student to acquire and develop the knowledge, skills and understanding that will prepare them for their chosen path into, and through adult life, able to accept fully that every right has, in equal measure, an associated responsibility.
3. To create and sustain an environment that empowers every member of the school staff to operate as effectively as possible, able to rely upon the support of sound and strategic leadership and management.
4. To promote creativity, flair, imagination and expression within the curriculum and beyond, in such a way as to encourage every member of the school community to explore their own potential in a motivated, responsive and aspirational manner.
5. To work in partnership with our parents through effective communication and transfer of information in such a way that will facilitate mutual support, and ultimately, the development of every individual to the full.
6. Through the accreditation of Specialist Status in the field of Science and Mathematics to further enhance the quality of teaching and learning in this, and all other curriculum areas, by means of innovative practice and leading edge technology.
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