Head of PE
Bolingbroke Academy
Wandsworth
- £31,242 - £51,913 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- TLR 2B £4,656
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2020
- Apply by:
- 31 March 2020
Job overview
Head of PE
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated teacher to develop their career within our passionate and ever courageous community
We are a courageous, compassionate community - empowering excellence. We are a value lead organisation, being bold within every aspect of our lives at school.
We want all staff to thrive and demonstrate leadership and determination when leading our students and pupils within our rich and diverse community. We opened in 2012 with the vision to create a centre of excellence in the community.
We empower our teams by valuing personal and team development. This is through weekly CPD sessions, frequent line management meetings and allowing staff to develop their own ideas and projects. Our staff’s wellbeing is key to creating a friendly supportive community within the school. Guided by our internal wellbeing committee we have a wide range of initiatives designed to improve the motivation and lives of our staff. This is supported by the Ark rewards scheme offering reduced
This role at the centre of our school and within a small but successful and dynamic PE department. Our department offers a successful GCSE programme and we are looking to extend our offering to BTEC. This is an opportunity to show what non-selective education can achieve for all pupils and students in our community.
Reports to: Vice Principal
Start date: September 2020
Salary: Ark MPS (£31,242 –£42,520) UPS (£47,545-£51,913) dependent on experienc
TLR: 2B £4,656
Closing Date: Tuesday 14th April 11am
Link:
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All positions are subject to rigorous and stringent safeguarding and reference checks. This includes enhanced DBS checks and safer recruiting vetting checks.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership and Management
• Be an outstanding teacher, able to motivate and challenge learners of all abilities across Key Stages 3-5.
• The ability to lead others and inspire by in of the curriculum.
• Lead the assessment process in the subject ensuring accurate measurement of subject standards in all year groups at all summative assessment points
• Lead the professional development of any others teaching the subject team to be highly effective practitioners.
Strategic Activities
• To establish, develop and lead the Academy’s PE provision at all Key Stages.
• Encourage participation in sports, oversee fixtures, extracurricular activities and school wide competitions.
• To review and evaluate current exam boards against Ark standard creating strategic action plans.
Teaching and learning
• Exude a passion for PE which is evident in your practice.
• To design an engaging and challenging curriculum that inspires pupils to appreciate the subject and its application and which meets the needs of the pupils.
• To deliver outstanding teaching of PE helping pupils achieve excellent academic results.
School ethos and culture
• Be committed to Bolingbroke Academy’s ethos of high expectations.
• Demonstrate high levels of ambition and optimism regarding what the Academy and its pupils can achieve.
• Provide a nurturing environment that helps students to develop as learners.
Personal specification
• Have a passion to learn and develop your practice through regular CPD and feedback.
• The ability to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of students and pupils.
- Have experience leading the curriculum.
- Have taught PE to the level of GCSE and ideally BTEC.
• Have experience line managing others in a developmental and motivational way.
• The ability to question and challenge the status quo and find new and progressive solutions to existing systems.
• Have a proven track record of success and raising pupil attainment in PE.
About Bolingbroke Academy
Bolingbroke Academy
Although we are privileged and proud to be part of the wider Ark network with the ethos and benefits that come with it we have our own culture and values that is at the heart of all that we do.
We are a courageous, compassionate community – empowering excellence.
Training Opportunities
Our HR and Teaching and Learning teams are dedicated to offering the best development for all staff joining the academy, challenging and supporting staff to excel in their roles. In order to deliver exceptional training, we offer twice as many training days as standard. For teaching staff, we offer weekly CPD sessions which are held on a vast array of topics and run by many staff all showcasing their expertise. To develop the trainers, we ensure all sessions are reviewed retrospectively providing feedback and suggesting presentation and content improvements. We also offer weekly line management for everyone, additional coaching sessions for new and trainee staff and a more regular and developmental appraisal system.
Wellbeing and Inclusion
At Bolingbroke we value the individual and encourage difference. To achieve this, we start with inclusive recruiting practices. Starting from our job descriptions to blind recruiting, structured shortlisting and scoring we ensure that all employees applying are only measured against their skills, achievements and values. We want all our employees to have a voice, these can be heard through the wellbeing committee or diversity group. The Diversity Group promotes diversity within the curriculum, pupil’s school experience and for staff whilst the Wellbeing committee consists of representatives from all departments in the school and highlights issues concerning the staff and supporting in creating achievable and beneficial solutions. All staff are involved in co-planning meaning their input into the curriculum and teaching strategies are implemented. An employee will also have a 360 aspect to all appraisals ensuring peer review and employees to contribute to their managers appraisals. The school is dedicated to training and develop their leaders and staff on diversity and inclusion through a programme of CPD sessions and online training.
We recognise our outstanding talent through half termly staff voted awards and our annual Above and Beyond award.
Specialisms
Like all Ark academies, Bolingbroke Academy will specialise in mathematics. We also have a strong focus on music, which helps develop self-expression, self-discipline, performance and team work as well as building a strong sense of community through collective participation. Our aim is for every pupil to play an instrument confidently and to take part in regular performances.
Be part of a network
Joining our school means becoming part of a network of education experts who are all united by the same purpose - a commitment to making a difference where it matters most. You will have the opportunity to come together with your peers locally, nationally and sometimes even internationally, to share resources, learning and good practice. You'll also be supported to focus on what you do best. We are always looking for ways to take away additional pressures, to give you more freedom to concentrate on improving education outcomes for young people. We offer support beyond the classroom; from prioritising strong behaviour management strategies to giving you access to our award-winning data management platform.
Ofsted
Bolingbroke Academy was inspected by Ofsted in December 2013 and was graded as "good". Read the full report here. You can also read our short 2018 inspection report here.
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