Head of Year
Harrow High School
Harrow
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- Expired
- Salary:
- TLR 1A - £8,291
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Apply by:
- 9 December 2022
Job overview
Starting Date: January 2023
Contract: 1 year Maternity Cover
Responsible to: Deputy Headteacher
Harrow High School is a vibrant, diverse 11-18 school in North West London which consistently achieves excellent rates of progress for all our learners from Key Stage three through to the Sixth Form. We are committed to providing a safe, caring environment for all in our community and demand the highest standards of behaviour from all our learners. This provides staff with the opportunity to teach excellent lessons with a focus on providing the highest levels of stretch and challenge for all learners.
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Head of Year with the skills to lead on all elements of behaviour, safety and care.
- We are committed to a constant programme of teacher development based on a comprehensive and exciting programme of CPD including a commitment to provide coaching for all staff to help them hone their practice.
- We believe strongly in a work life balance and know that enjoying your work is the most important part of well-being. This is of the highest importance to us.
- We set aside time every week for dedicated joint faculty lesson planning and have implemented an assessment policy that meets the needs of learners whilst being sensitive to the time demands faced by staff.
- We offer flexible working practices where possible and a well-being day for all staff as well as an individual wellbeing day to be taken as and when wanted.
- We have a culture of approachability from the management means support, support, support is key to issues both in and out of school life.
We have exceptionally high expectations of all our learners in all that they do and believe that disadvantage or low prior attainment should not act as a barrier to success. We are committed to our ‘4 excellences’ which are at the heart of everything we do and every conversation we have. These are;
- Excellent Learning & Progress
- Excellent Aspirations
- Excellent Behaviour, Safety and Care for each other
- Excellent Communication
To find out more about us, please visit our website www.harrowhigh.com or follow us on twitter @harrowhighsch
The school is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate will be subject to receipt of at least two satisfactory references, verification of the candidate's identity; an enhanced DBS check and confirmation that the candidate has a right to work in the UK.
1. Purpose of the Job
The job exists to ensure a holistic approach to leading and managing a year group’s excellent behaviour, attendance, safety and care for one another.
2. Responsibilities
Line management of the Year group tutor team and Line management of the Assistant Head of Year
3. Working time and Conditions
- These will be as specified in the latest School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document.
- The National Standards for QTS as laid down by the Teaching Regulation Agency, relating to:
- Professional values and practice
- Teaching
- Knowledge and understanding
- The Induction Standards, as appropriate
- The Threshold Standards, as appropriate
(Please see https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/teaching-regulation-agency)
- Accountabilities
- Achieve excellent progress and behaviour for all learners within a year group
- Achieve excellent attendance and punctuality for all learners within a year group
- safeguarding procedures attending case conferences to provide information at the request of the Designated Safeguarding Lead
- Ensure compliance on Harrow Council's and the school's information security policies,
maintaining confidentiality
- Teach consistently good or outstanding lessons
- Ensure the excellent impact of success plans and behaviour passports for learners in a year group
- To ensure an excellent standard of uniform in a year group
- Foster and encourage a positive ethos within the year group that promote positive
behaviour and engagement at all times
- Ensure that the year group and year team understand, adhere to and embody the
school beliefs
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- To monitor, evaluate and review progress, attendance and behaviour data for a
year group
- To create high quality year group progress and action review plans every term
- To work with parents, teachers and carers to create, implement, monitor and review
success plans as directed
- Effective line management of an HoY for the year group
- Attend Child Protection, Child In Need and PEP meetings and complete all relevant
administration
- Liaise with key personnel including multi-agency partners working with them to
remove barriers to learning that vulnerable young people may be experiencing
- Monitor punctuality and attendance every day and ensure appropriate follow up
action is taken
- To undertake daily phone calls for learners at risk of persistent absence in line with
school procedures
- Conduct parental/carer meetings to identify and follow up issues regarding
behaviour, punctuality or academic progress as required.
Attached documents
About Harrow High School
Harrow High School is a popular comprehensive school in Harrow. We base everything we do around our 4 excellences. These are:
Excellent Learning & Progress
Challenged and Inspired, Knowledgeable and Successful
So this is the bit about about results? Well - yes but not exclusively. In 2023, despite grade boundaries increasing across the country, our results improved leading to a GCSE progress 8 score of +0.56. As always, our most able learners excelled themselves with 17% achieving 9-7 in English and Maths. The previous year, at A Level an incredible 37% grades awarded at A*. Learners in Year 13 achieved an incredible 64% of A level grades at A*-A, 81% at A*-B, and 92% at A*-C, with a 100% pass rate.
However, it's not just about numbers. We’re committed to developing our curriculum to provide stretch, challenge alongside a serious focus upon knowledge and reading (for all levels of learner). This underpins our approach to teaching and learning.
To get there, we are committed to an extensive, high quality programme of CPD for all staff including bi-weekly pedagogical workshops, weekly curriculum team meetings in which developing subject specific teaching is at the core (no admin here..) and a coaching entitlement for all staff. Additionally we are able to access leadership development courses for all through the National College and our local Harrow Collaborative - an offer almost all staff take up.
Together these commitments make our school a fantastic place for learners to learn and for teachers to develop their skills and build their careers.
Excellent Behaviour, Safety and Care for each other
Consistent and Responsible, Kind, Resilient and Showing Empathy
This is so important. We place a real premium on excellent behaviour both in class and around the site. We expect all members of our community to contribute this and consistency is a key concept here.
However, we also place a strong emphasis on Kindness and Empathy. We have clear policies but expect these to be implemented with kindness, understanding and respect, making reasonable exceptions for learners with additional need.
As a result, the atmosphere in school is calm, friendly and warm. Lessons are rarely disturbed by poor behaviour meaning that teaching and learning is at the fore of all conversations
Excellent Aspirations
Quality progression, passion for learning
Our learners come from a wide range of backgrounds and have not always been afforded the opportunities open to other young people. We aim to tackle this and raise their aspirations so they can go on to fulfill their full potential. OIn a basic level, this means high expectations of every learner in every lesson. (we scaffold up, we don’t differentiate down). Every learner should leave the classroom feeling like they’ve been challenged and have risen to it.
We also have the highest aspirations for staff. As mentioned above, our programme of professional development is at the core of what we do. Not only does this lead to better teaching and learning but also to plenty of career development opportunities for all staff both in and out of school
It also means excellent careers and personal development programmes and meaningful excursions that provide learners with opportunities for new experiences. There is too much to say on this to go into detail here, suffice to say that three times a year we stop school for all learners to have two days of visits/careers experiences and other additional learning. Every learner visits a university with us twice in their time here.
We also run a very high quality programme of activities for tutor sessions that engage learners with the wider world around them and offer them a chance to develop their views.
Excellent Communication
Understanding each other, clarity of purpose
This means that all communication in our community should be warm and polite. Challenge, when necessary, should be conducted with respect and empathy. This means staff here build excellent professional relationships with learners based upon mutual trust. This is also key when working with parents and we are developing our systems for even better communication home at pace.
As a teacher here, you will find clear boundaries and protocols for staff communication to avoid burn out, regular briefings from the leadership team on progress towards SIP targets and purposeful and developmental team meetings
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