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Lead Teacher of Business Studies

Lead Teacher of Business Studies

King Solomon Academy

Westminster

Salary:
Ark MPS/UPS (Inner London): £29,377 - £48,814 dependent on experience, plus + TLR 2a (£2,667)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2018
Apply by:
19 April 2018

Job overview

Lead Teacher of Business Studies - Develop as an exceptional teacher and leader at King Solomon Academy

KSA is a pioneering school looking to hire exceptional people. This is a unique opportunity for an ambitious and high-performing teacher and leader who is committed to pushing themselves further and achieving amazing things with and for their pupils. We believe in high expectations and a sense of collaborative and positive enthusiasm which brings out the best in our team. Through weekly coaching and time allocated to professional development we can help our teachers excel in creating a successful environment for our pupils.

We are looking for an individual with a genuine passion for leading Business at King Solomon Academy and a belief in the potential of every child and that through hard work all pupils can access and benefit from a university education.

Led by the Head of Business and Enterprise, in Sept 2015 KSA introduced business studies into our curriculum with the launch of the BTEC level 3 business in sixth form. The success of the business BTEC has allowed us to introduce business at GCSE from September 2016 and we know have cohorts of pupils learning Business Studies in Year 10, Year 11, Year 12 and Year 13. We are keen to ensure that an entrepreneurial culture is spread more widely across the academy and for the business team organise a range of enterprise events. We run Young Enterprise successfully at sixth form and similar initiatives throughout the school, including STRIDE in Year 6.

The academy’s first cohort of Business Studies students progressed to university in September this year and we are incredibly proud of their achievements. The Lead Teacher of Business Studies will lead the shaping of the curriculum from Years 10 to 13, teaching cohorts in both key stages and leading our fastest growing subject area.

To apply, follow the link at http://kingsolomonacademy.org/current-vacancies by 11am on Friday 20th April 2018.

For an informal conversation about the role, please contact
Shaheen Riaz at s.riaz@kingsolomonacademy.org and 0207 563 6901.

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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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