Learning Leader of The Arts
Sir John Thursby Community College
Lancashire
- £30,000 - £46,525 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS + TLR 2.2 £5351
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2024
- Apply by:
- 19 April 2024
Job overview
Learning Leader of The Arts - Preferably a Teacher of Art
As part of our journey to become ‘a truly great school’, we are looking for a highly effective and motivated Learning Leader to join our dynamic and successful Arts department. Building on our current success, where we have seen Grade 4+ results almost double over the last few years, we wish to invest in an exceptional leader in order to support our ambition to be in the top 20% of schools nationally. The successful candidate will be an excellent classroom teacher with the vision and expertise to lead the ongoing improvement of students’ outcomes in The Arts which includes Visual Arts, Music, Drama, Photography and the arts award.
At SJT we value and care for all our staff and take staff well-being seriously. This is reflected in our generous 20% non -contact time that we give to all our staff have and our commitment to reduce marking and planning workload. We also recognise the challenges of working in a school and we are open to discussions around flexibility of working.
The arts team works with creativity and relentless determination to ensure that our students achieve their ambitious targets. Our excellent facilities help to support the outstanding learning that takes place every day and we are proud to offer a full artistic and creative curriculum for Art, Music and Drama as well as the Arts Award right up to year 9, with students taking options to study GCSE Art, Music, Drama and Photography at GCSE. We are also proud of our recognition as an Arts Mark Platinum school and we are looking for someone who can work with the team to continue this commitment and ambition for the arts across our school.
Sir John Thursby Community College is a good school, and we are passionate about and ambitious for our students. We value and care for our staff and seek to abandon anything that hinders the preparation of great lessons and creates unnecessary workload.
Our last Ofsted in April 2023 noted that, “Pupils enjoy attending this thriving and popular school. They feel a strong sense of belonging to the school community. Pupils achieve well and almost all successfully move on to apprenticeships, A levels or other forms of education, employment or training. Staff have high expectations of behaviour and know pupils very well.”
Our beautiful, state of the art building ensures that our students and staff have the best learning environment in which to achieve. We are a very positive community, with our recent staff survey showing that over 95% of our staff enjoy coming to work and are proud to be part of our school. At SJT we view the professional development of all staff as a priority and our innovative, research based CPD enables all staff to continually improve, wherever they are in their career.
We are looking for a teacher who shares our drive and passion to inspire our students with the love of their subject and has the motivation and expertise to:
- Take responsibility for the leadership of the Arts department
- Ensure that achievement rises in the department by effective analysis of student performance and through the delivery of an appropriate and inspiring curriculum
The successful candidate will fully embrace our ethos of ‘Belong, Believe, Achieve’ whilst bringing fresh ideas that will build on current strengths and achievements through:
· Outstanding classroom practice and an ability to engage all young people.
· A commitment to contribute to our extra-curricular programme.
· The ability to motivate students of all abilities to achieve their full potential.
· A passion and commitment to raise standards and achievement.
· The ability to work and contribute as part of a team.
· Commitment, resilience, patience, hard work and a good sense of humour.
· The willingness to do what it takes to achieve our goals.
We welcome visitors to the school. To arrange a time to visit and meet with the
headteacher please contact his PA Leanne Barwell (email -
l.barwell@sirjohnthursby.lancs.sch.uk. or telephone 01282 682313 ext: 21009).
Further details and application form are available from the college website or Lynsey Clayton (on behalf of the Headteacher) as detailed below.
- Website: www.sirjohnthursby.lancs.sch.uk
- Sir John Thursby Community College, Eastern Avenue, Burnley, BB10 2AT Tel: 01282 682313
- email l.clayton@sirjohnthursby.lancs.sch.uk
Please submit your completed application form (on the version supplied with this vacancy) to Mrs L Clayton: l.clayton@sirjohnthursby.lancs.sch.uk
Closing date: 9am Friday 19th April 2024
Shortlisting: Monday 22nd April 2024
Interview date: Friday 26th April 224
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. You will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure and a range of other recruitment checks. Please note that in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023 an online search will be carried out as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates.
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About Sir John Thursby Community College
- Sir John Thursby Community College
- Eastern Avenue, Burnley
- Lancashire
- BB10 2AT
- United Kingdom
Sir John Thursby Community College is a mixed 11-16, multi-cultural, fully inclusive school which values all students, staff and our community partners. We have over 1,100 students on roll and over 150 staff enjoying working together to provide the best for everyone. We are also fortunate to work in a fantastic building that was one of five community high schools within the Building Schools for the Future project in Burnley.
Everything we do is driven by our strategic vision and our ambition to be a truly great school. Three words are central to what we do: Belong, Believe and Achieve. We are committed to ensuring that all our students have bright futures and collectively, as a staff, we commit to our beliefs which are set out in our Strategic Vision (included in this pack).
In our latest Ofsted report in April 2023, the school was graded ‘good’ in every area and inspectors commented that the pupils ‘enjoy attending this thriving and popular school’ and that they ‘feel a strong sense of belonging to the school community.’ The report also identified that students ‘achieve well’ and that ‘almost all pupils successfully move on to apprenticeships, A levels or other forms of education, employment or training’.
People and relationships are at the hear of what we do. One of our key values is that all members of our school community are known, valued and loved and we work hard to ensure this happens. We were delighted that Ofsted saw this in our relationships with our young people when they commented that ‘staff know pupils very well’. We work hard to create an environment in which staff feel a strong sense of belonging to our school, our students and our families. We are firmly committed to ensuring that all our staff have a positive work/life balance and as a result we give all our teaching staff a minimum of 20% non-contact time and staff have excellent CPD opportunities.
In our 2023 staff survey, 97% of staff were proud to be a member of our school community and 95% said that they enjoyed working at the school. Staff commented that:
· ‘Leaders care and lead by example’
· ‘SJT is a great place to work’
· ‘I love being part of the SJT team and appreciate the opportunities that the school provides for its staff and pupils’
· ‘The staff are extremely positive and supportive of each other and value relationships with their students’
· ‘I do believe this is a great place to work, and I feel lucky to have this opportunity’
We have a highly ambitious curriculum with over 70% of students following the EBacc subjects. Our results are consistently strong with students Attainment 8 above expectations and Progress 8 in 2022 +0.16
We have a positive behaviour system which has ‘high expectations of pupil’s behaviour’ (Ofsted 2023).
We are proud of our achievements and continue to go from strength to strength. I would encourage you to come and visit SJT to see why we all believe that it is a special place to work and make a difference. We look forward to receiving your application and please contact us if you would like any further information.
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