Head of Year (Secondary)
King Solomon Academy
LONDON
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS + TLR 2b - This role and all TLRs are reviewed annually in line with the needs of the school
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 19 May 2022
Job overview
Head of Year (Secondary)
Over the last seven years, King Solomon Academy has consistently been one of the highest performing non-selective schools in the country. We are redefining what is possible and we are seeking an exceptional Head of Year, ready to join our high-performing school and to contribute to the achieving of our mission. This is a unique opportunity to be part of 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.
As a member of the pastoral leadership team, this role requires a leader who is 100% aligned to King Solomon Academy’s values, mission and approach. This role will provide the opportunity to be mentored and nurtured as a leader in one of the highest performing and most forward-thinking schools in the country.
We believe in knowing our pupils and knowing our community. Each pupil is visited at home before they join the secondary school and the school, the child and their family all make commitments to forming good habits for learning and conduct which guide them through their time at KSA secondary. At KSA we sweat the details and in the role of Head of Year you would be responsible for maintaining high expectations of academics and behaviour across your year group.
This is a challenging and exciting role which places its holder in a position of influence and accountability over the lives of a cohort of pupils at KSA. You will have the opportunity to shape culture in your year group by leading your year team to ensure superb outcomes for your pupils. The precise year group you would be working with would be based around the needs of the school at the time and we would expect a successful applicant to be capable of and willing to lead any year group in the future.
To apply, write a letter outlining your interest and capacity to be successful in the role to the Principal. The deadline is 11am on 19th May 2022. To discuss the role, please feel free to email the Principal’s PA, Shaheen Riaz (s.riaz@kingsolomonacademy.org) or phone on 02075636901.
Job Description: Head of Year (Secondary)
Reports to: Relevant Senior Leader
Start date: September 2022
Salary: MPS/UPS + TLR 2b - This role and all TLRs are reviewed annually in line with the needs of the school
The Role
To drive outstanding academic progress and culture in the year group
Key Responsibilities
• Role model exceptional teaching and set the standard for teaching in the year group
• Manage class teachers in their class teacher responsibilities (including attendance tracking, pastoral management, parent communication, registration culture, form/team culture)
• Implement pastoral provisions and behaviour management strategies for specific pupils
• Demonstrate high expectations of behaviour, holding pupils to account for their actions at all times
• Plan character education in the year group in cooperation with the PSHE coordinator
• Maintain excellent relationships with parents
• Be held accountable for the progress of all pupils in all subjects in their year group
• Manage other appropriate staff as required
• Contribute to the overall academy wide leadership though specific leadership duties
• Develop staff through feedback and support
Outcomes and Activities
Leadership of culture
• Address misbehavior by pupils in their year group, with appropriate consequences and parent meetings
• Ensuring there is a consistent approach to managing pupil behavior within the year group which aligns with the academy behavior policy
• Keeping meticulous records of all serious behavior incidents
• Apply the behavior policy of the school consistently and fairly
• Drive excellent culture and organisation to ensure the effective running of the school day for their year group, including all communal times (e.g. lunch)
• Plan and deliver year group assemblies
• Help keep systems (homework, attendance, behaviour) organised, up-to-date and user friendly for all year and academy wide staff, ensuring consistency
• Model precise and consistent use of systems and routines to all teachers in their year group
• Ensure that lunch and breaktimes are calm and positive parts of the school day which are enjoyed by staff and pupils alike
• Lead (or where agreed with line manager, support) whole year group activities and trips, including leading the end of year trip
• Effectively manage transitions at the start and end of the academic year
• Act as a positive role model to staff and pupils
• Through observation and feedback, mentor year group teachers to ensure excellent positive culture in all lessons
• Analyse behaviour and attendance data to identify trends and act to address any issues
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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