IB Coordinator/Head of International School
St. Peter's International School
Portugal
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- 22 July 2022
Job overview
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Our School
St. Peter’s International School is an international school located in Palmela that provides a competitive, high-quality response to the needs of a diverse population. Its fundamental principles are centered on the integral development of the child, valuing academic and professional success, based on attitudes, practices and values that contribute to the growth of the individual.
Job Description:
As a member of the Senior School Leadership Team (SLT), the Head of International School is expected to lead at a strategic level and to direct staff in the furtherance of the International section programmes. The following is a general description of the role, not an exhaustive list of all that may reasonably be required.
This position will be responsible for the following:
• Working closely and collaboratively with the Executive Head and Senior Management Team to implement the School’s educational strategy and policies
• Supporting and working collaboratively with the Executive Head and HR department in the recruitment of teaching staff
• Oversight of the Safeguarding of International Section pupils in conjunction with the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL)
• Working collaboratively with the Head of Admissions on the admission and induction of new pupils into the International Section, including oversight and development of Admissions Tests
• Chairing the International Section staff meetings, keeping track of agenda items and working on resolutions
• Leading the review and implementation of teaching & learning policies including, but not limited to marking policies; assessment policies; teaching & learning policies, homework policies; examination policies; pastoral care and behavior policies; special educational needs and inclusion policies and safeguarding policies
• Responsibility for the alignment between the Cambridge IGCSE and the IB Diploma Programme
• Developing the International curriculum in collaboration with Senior colleagues across the whole school to ensure the educational needs of all students are appropriately met through best practices in Education, including evaluating the introduction of new subjects or courses
• Overseeing the professional development and performance management processes for International Section teaching staff, supporting, and working collaboratively with the HR department
• Ensuring the academic development of the School and year-on-year improvement of educational standards, including target setting for IB DP and IGCSE examinations
• Acting as the school’s liaison with the IB and Cambridge Assessment, ensuring that staff are aware of new developments within the curriculum
• Evaluating and reporting on the possible expansion of the International Section to include Cambridge Primary
• Ensuring a high standard academic programme by working directly with all departments and teachers to ensure there is a commitment to excellence and that students are challenged, while respecting each student’s capabilities
• Overseeing and improving systems related to tracking student progress, to evaluate student progression and act upon the results guaranteeing each student achieves their best, using benchmarks and setting targets for improvement
• Ensuring a culture and ethos of challenge, accountability and support where all students become engaged in their own learning
• Promoting the St. Peter’s mission, values and ethos within the school community
• Ensuring the St. Peter’s culture is spread out across the school community
• Ensuring the IB values and learner profile is embedded in the whole school
• Understanding and fortifying the St. Peter’s educational approach across all subjects – e.g., student profile, technology integration, autonomous learning and project-based work
• Overseeing the strategic development of new and emerging technologies to enhance and extend the learning experience of students
• Being fully committed to diversity, inclusion and a global perspective on education
• Being a highly visible, inspiring and an active presence throughout the St. Peter’s community
• Fostering excellent relationships with students, staff, parents, and other Inspired schools
• Ensuring the School is well publicized, and its achievements appropriately communicated to parents and the wider community
• Ensuring parents and students are well informed about school activities, the curriculum, attainment and progress, and the contribution that they can make to achieve the School’s targets for improvement
Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual responsibility undertaken may not be identified. The duties outlined above are not intended as a restrictive list and may be extended or altered to include other tasks that are commensurate with the role as directed Senior Management.
Safeguarding Statement
Inspired are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and if successful you are expected to share this commitment. The protection of our students’ welfare is the responsibility of all staff and individuals are expected to conduct themselves in a way that reflects the principles and values of our organization.
Any successful applications will also be required to undergo rigorous child protection screening including checks with past employers and an enhanced DBS check as well as completing any relevant safeguarding assessments
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This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Inspired makes hiring decisions based solely the skills, experiences and attributes needed to continue to deliver excellence.
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About St. Peter's International School
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- St. Peter's International School
- Quinta dos Barreleiros, Volta da Pedra, Palmela
- 2950-201
- Portugal
Our School is part of the Inspired Education Group
Inspired Education is the leading global group of premium schools, with over 80 premium private schools spanning six continents providing premium education to over 70,000 students ensuring they all receive a first-class learning experience from Kindergarten to Year 13.
We offer you the chance to work/live in an exciting new location, collaborate with passionate educators, develop your skills, and grow in a role that inspires you.
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Background
St. Peter’s International School (SPIS) is the longest established international school in Palmela, Portugal. The School provides a competitive, high-quality education which meets the needs of a diverse student population. The School’s pedagogical method is unique and teaching is highly personalised and differentiated to each student. Sports and all artistic areas are always encouraged and considered essential to all students.
The School is proud to be over 25 years old and still investing in excellence while providing a multicultural environment with around 40 different nationalities, which means students are always in contact with different cultures and languages.
SPIS offer a bilingual curriculum from Kindergarten until Grade 4, the Portuguese curriculum with extra lessons of English, Spanish, Latin from Grade 5 to Grade 9, and finally the option of the National Portuguese curriculum or the IGCSE+IB for Grades 9 to 12. This means the School covers a lot of options in terms of curriculum and, for that reason, students have a complete education that allows them to continue their studies in Portugal or abroad.
SPIS has a constant desire to evolve and improve the curriculum, the facilities and the conditions for all students and families; the School ceaselessly seeks to do more and be better every day. In short, all at SPIS believe that its students can achieve their maximum potential, be happy and fulfilled from an earlier age.
Considered one of the safest countries in the world, and with weather and a climate that catches everyone’s eye, SPIS has welcomed many families from all around the globe over recent years. To further develop the relationship with other countries, the School is proud to launch St. Peter’s International Boarding School, with a brand new building and boarding offering that will mark the beginning of a new approach, with a more bilingual environment and international curriculum. With comfortable rooms and access to a modern and safe campus, boarding students will feel very much at home.
Ethos & Aims
In a world that is constantly changing, in which society lives at an ever-increasing pace, education has taken on a leading role, bringing with it the highest of social responsibilities.
SPIS is an international school that provides a competitive, high-quality education to meet the needs of a diverse population. Its fundamental principles are centered on the integral development of the child, valuing academic and personal success, based on attitudes, practices and values that contribute to the growth of the individual.
SPIS’s mission is to build self-reliant, critical, creative students, who have the necessary skills and abilities to perform well at a personal, social and professional level. Thus allowing them to pursue their studies, and actively integrate into a rapidly changing and increasingly globalised society.
Considering the cosmopolitan spirit of the School, in which students of different nationalities work together, the English language acquires particular importance in SPIS’s educational context, and is present in the syllabus from Kindergarten to Secondary School. The acquisition of other languages is also vital – Spanish, German and Latin – and allow students to gain an in-depth understanding of the School’s social context, as well as an insight into different world views and cultural realities. This in turn encourages a cross- -disciplinary development of knowledge and values, as well as greater competitiveness in the world of work beyond.
Structure
The School currently includes a multidisciplinary teaching team, who are experienced and qualified to create innovative and challenging learning environments, in all teaching areas. Since its founding, the School has never stopped growing, innovating, modernising and investing in a diverse and multicultural educational context, responding to the needs and expectations of its students who come from all over the world. Teaching activity is planned as a team, seeking to achieve academic success, giving value to education with the aim to continuously improve the quality of teaching and learning.
SPIS develops formal, enjoyable and artistic learning activities, based on interpersonal relationships and meaningful content, which provide support to students while building their knowledge of the world and simultaneously discovering themselves.
SPIS consists of five sections: Pre-School, Primary School Junior School, Middle School. Secondary School and the International Section (IGCSE and IB Diploma). The composition of the School is as follows:
Nursery and Kindergarten 120 pupils - day students, from the age 6 months to 6 years old. The Coordinator is Mrs. Catarina Simão
Primary School 255 pupils - day students, from the age 6 to 10 years old. The Coordinator is Mr. José Henrique Junior School
Middle School 595 pupils - day students, from the age 10 to 15 years old. The Coordinator is Mr. Pedro Mata
Secondary School 323 pupils - day students, from the age 16 to 18 years old. The Coordinator is Mrs. Vanda Ramos
International Section 121 pupils - day students from the age 14 to 18 years old. The Coordinator is Mrs. Telma Fresta
Throughout its sustained growth, the School has benefitted from the ongoing development of its facilities, gaining a considerable amount of physical space, creating the scope for students’ numbers to grow substantially. For the start of the next academic year (2021- -2022), SPIS will open St. Peter’s Boarding Residence, an innovative addition to the School’s provision which will provide outstanding facilities catering to boarders from all over the world. The School will also benefit from a new cafeteria and social rooms.
Academic
SPIS offers a broad academic curriculum with a wide choice of subjects at Secondary National Curriculum and also at the International Curriculum (IGCSE and IB Diploma).
Early childhood is a fundamental stage of children's lives, the first years being particularly important for their physical, intellectual, and emotional development. In Nursery School and Kindergarten at SPIS, the School has developed its pedagogical approach, bringing together best practices from various methods from around the world.
SPIS offers a differentiated curriculum in both Portuguese and English, using the CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning Methodology), and bases its educational approach on values of academic and moral excellence. It offers its students a high academic standard, a quality teaching environment and provides a solid personal and social education, built through the development and acquisition of syllabus, skills, values and behaviour.
The English language continues to have a significant role throughout these teaching levels, during which the students are able to complete an international certification with the University of Cambridge. With the School’s ethos based on reciprocal kindness and respect; sports, arts, and the specific knowledge of different subject areas are a constant presence in a context which is in permanent adaptation to current academic models. The dynamic contexts and the differentiated approach adopted in the classroom, the extra support lessons and reinforcement of contents, as well as sessions which develop skills and study techniques, contribute to the acquisition of progressively more elaborated competencies.
In the International Section, SPIS is proud to offer its students a unique opportunity to immerse in a multicultural educational context and culture. Cambridge Assessment International Education is a part of Cambridge University, and prepares school students for life, helping them to develop an informed curiosity and a lasting passion for learning. The IB Diploma Programme (DP) is an academically challenging and balanced programme of education that prepares students, aged 16 to 19, for success at university and life beyond.
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