Head of Primary
King Solomon Academy
Westminster
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2017
- Apply by:
- 26 April 2017
Job overview
Head of Primary
King Solomon Academy
Over the last three years, King Solomon Academy has consistently been one of top ten highest performing non-selective schools in the country. We are redefining what is possible and we are seeking an exceptional teacher, ready to join our high-performing school and contribute to our schools mission. This is a unique opportunity to be part of showing what education can achieve.
King Solomon Academy 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 dream a reality.
We are excited to offer the role of Head of Primary. This role will take responsibility for the primary part of King Solomon Academy and report to the Principal, who will support the successful candidate in all aspects of their new role. The role is being offered for 1 year as a fixed term contract. As King Solomon Academy and its partner primary school Ark Paddington Green are undergoing development, and as part of the wider Ark School community there are exciting opportunities beyond the 2017-18 academic year for the successful candidate.
Everyone who works at King Solomon Academy is motivated to achieve our mission: to provide a rigorous and transformational education which prepares our pupils for success at university and beyond. We see our Primary school as the foundation on which this mission will be built. We want a leader who embraces the rigour and challenge of viewing primary education as a preparation for university. As and all-through school we view each year of the journey from nursery to university with similar expectations and importance, while recognising it is particularly what happens when our pupils enter our school in nursery and reception which will drive everything else that follows.
Through using a mixture of established and proven approaches, such as Read Write Inc. phonics and Maths Mastery, as well as home grown programmes such as our music and orchestra programmes where every pupil learns a string instrument from year 3, we are creating a curriculum and environment within which our pupils can fly. We couple our exceedingly high standards with a nurturing care for our pupils and community which builds a sense of safety and support.
Full details of these responsibilities and how to apply can be found at http://kingsolomonacademy.org/current-vacancies.
The application deadline is by 11am on Thursday 27th April 2017.
For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Amie Patton - Amie.Patton@arkonline.org.
Deadline: 11am on Thursday 27th April 2017
Start date: September 2017
Salary: Competitive
Contract: Fixed Term (1 year)
Ark is committed to safeguarding children; successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
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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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