Key Stage 4 Co-ordinator for English
Harrow High School
Harrow
- Expired
- Salary:
- TLR 2b £4,404
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2017
- Apply by:
- 9 March 2017
Job overview
Key Stage 4 Co-ordinator for English
Progress your career in a school that believes in excellence for all
Harrow High School is an exciting school that serves a unique and extremely diverse community, in Harrow, North West London. We are looking to appoint a talented Key Stage 4 co-ordinator on a permanent contract from September 2017. Earlier starts can be accommodated for the right candidate.
The successful candidate will join a high performing faculty and will be integral in supporting the Head of the English in continuing to achieve the best outcomes in English.
If you are an ambitious and inspirational practitioner of English that is looking to progress in a different role to a KS4 co-ordinator, we still encourage you to apply. As we are always looking to explore how we can support talented teachers of English to progress.
Our learners are respectful and well behaved
A career at Harrow High School gives you an opportunity to work within a small school with small class sizes with a focus on excellent progress for every learner. Our commitment to personalisation ensures our young people have access to a wide range of opportunities in the future. We have a small successful sixth form, with excellent rates of progression to the best universities. Our learners are proud of their school, and value the great efforts that our staff are prepared to go to in order to help them achieve. Their behaviour is good and attitudes to learning are very positive. Our historic school building is a landmark in Harrow providing a well-kept and stimulating learning environment with excellent facilities.
A career with us offers excellent opportunities to progress
By joining our school you will be welcomed by a diverse, social, friendly and supportive staff team. We enjoy having fun and our team ethos is very strong, everyone helps everyone. We offer excellent CPD programmes for all staff to ensure they can develop exciting and innovative approaches in the classroom and continue to learn from each other.
Learn more about what a career at Harrow High School can offer you
When you walk around our school you will be met with a warm welcome from our community. We encourage visits to the school, so you can see first hand what a career at Harrow High School can offer you.
You can also learn more about us by visiting our specialist recruitment website: https://ourclients.randstad.co.uk/harrow-high-school/
Here you will find lots of helpful information, as well as hear from members of our team about what it means to them to be part of our school.
Our dedicated recruitment partners Marie Prendergast and Sarah Lewis, are here to answer any questions you may have about the school and position, arrange an initial visit and support you through the application process. Please contact on 0207 400 6062 or email harrowhigh@randstadeducation.co.uk
Closing date: 9th March
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. All workers and employees are expected to share this commitment.
All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
Harrow is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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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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