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Principal

Anglesey Primary Academy

Burton on Trent, Staffordshire

Salary:
L18-L24, £59,857-£69,330 (more for an exceptional candidate, relocation package available)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2018
Apply by:
19 January 2018

Job overview

Share in our journey

We are enormously proud and privileged to serve the children and families of this community.  Anglesey is a happy, warm and nurturing environment for all within it and every member of our team is striving towards creating the outstanding school that our families deserve.

Ours is a very special learning community, filled with dedicated and talented staff, where all students, whatever their ability and background, will flourish.  We work hard and care enormously about our pupils.  We serve an area of high socio-economic deprivation which brings challenges, as well as massive rewards. 

Ambition and drive are just two of the qualities you will need to succeed at our school.  We are looking for an inspirational and visionary Principal to build on our strengths, drive progress and lead us onwards to becoming exceptional in all that we do. 

You will:

  • Thrive within a positive atmosphere of high quality support and challenge 
  • Have the ability to inspire, motivate and empower teams and individuals to achieve 
  • Be a dynamic and innovative leader with a forward thinking and committed approach
  • Set high standards and expectations of pupil achievement and behaviour
  • Take pride in academic excellence, whilst maintaining our commitment to an enriched curriculum 
  • Be ready to work with parents and other stakeholders to build the school’s standing within the local community
  • Have a successful track record at either Head or Deputy level

Anglesey Primary Academy is part of Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) a network of 64 primary, secondary and special academies.  As a member of our network, we can offer you a professional learning journey, tailored to your individual needs. You will have the opportunity to work with our Primary Leaders across the Group, along with added opportunities of sharing within the AET network.  We also offer an attractive range of financial, health and well-being benefits.

This is a wonderful opportunity for the right candidate to make a real difference and lead the creation of an outstanding academy.

Visits to the academy are warmly encouraged and can be arranged by contacting Jo Grabowska, Recruitment Manager at Tes, on 020 3194 3085 or joanna.grabowska@tes.com  

For an informal discussion or to request a candidate information pack and application form, please contact Jo Grabowska on the contact details above.

Closing date: Friday 19th January 2018, 5pm
Interviews: Tuesday 6th February & Thursday 8th February 2018

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Prevent duty.

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About Anglesey Primary Academy

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About Anglesey Primary Academy

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Anglesey Primary Academy is an exciting and vibrant place to work that is forward-thinking with dedicated, hardworking staff who are committed to serving a culturally and linguistically diverse community. The Academy was graded as ‘Good’ by Ofsted in December 2019. We are a large 3 form entry Primary Academy with 585 pupils. Approximately 81% of children are bilingual or multilingual and there are 27 different languages spoken within the Academy. We have children from many diverse backgrounds, speaking a number of different languages. As an academy we celebrate this diversity. Our specialist EAL team are trained in our main languages and support children, parents and staff, as well as assessing children in their first language. They also ensure that all children develop their grasp of English as a language as quickly as possible.

Our academy is well equipped with appropriate resources to support all our children and their diverse cultural and religious experiences and backgrounds are reflected in the curriculum and activities that the academy organises.

Our Vision and Values

At Anglesey Primary Academy we constantly endeavour to create a welcoming, secure, and stable environment.  Only then can we successfully achieve our aims and help the children reach their full potential.

Anglesey is AIMING HIGH

AMBITION - Reaching our dreams ATTITUDE - Being responsible ACHIEVEMENT - Doing our best ACTION - Making it happen.

Our aims are to:

  • To encourage active partnership between home, school and the community and their participation in all aspects of school life.
  • To raise standards and achievement through high expectations.
  • To offer equal opportunities to all children and staff regardless of gender, religion, race or any other special needs.
  • To provide, through the statutory requirements, a wide range of broadly based experiences appropriate to individual needs so as to enable every child to realise his or her potential.

Our Curriculum

Our curriculum reflects the attitudes, values and respect that we have for all ethnic groups that make up the diverse community of our academy. So, for example, the history curriculum gives due emphasis to ancient African traditions and cultures in the work that the children do on the Ancient Egyptians. In the religious education curriculum topics focus on religious festivals, the children study the importance of Diwali to Hindus and Vaisakhi to Sikhs. We also celebrate Eid, Diwali, Chinese New Year, Christmas, Easter and Harvest through a range of phase assemblies and topics that are researched and produced by different year groups. Teachers often celebrate other religious festivals if they have a child in their class from a particular religious background

As an academy we constantly review the curriculum and insure that it reflects the needs of our community and our children.

To view our curriculum across all our classes as well as our wider curriculum policy please click  here

Ofsted

We are judged to be a 'Good' school and we were last inspected in December 2019. To view all our Ofsted reports please click  here 

WHY JOIN OUR ACADEMY?

Staff Benefits

Development:

We are committed to developing all staff at all levels through high quality development opportunities, resources, and experiences  that will support you on your professional learning journey with AET.

Lifestyle:

We champion agile/flexible working across the Trust to help our people achieve an optimal work/life balance.

Money:

All staff have access to our pension schemes (Local Government Pension Scheme and Teachers’ Pension Scheme).  Everyone has free access to financial advice & support and can access a wide range of retail discounts through our AET Benefits scheme. We also offer Technology Loans to help with any big digital purchases.

Wellbeing:

We recognise that mental wellbeing is just as important as physical and have set up employee assistance programmes which offer free and confidential counselling 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our employees can access our health cash place scheme from BHSF.

OUR TRUST

This is a hugely exciting time to be joining the organisation, and as we pivot from being in turnaround mode to becoming a high performance organisation on the pathway to sustainable excellence. This will see us building our in-house education improvement capacity and expertise, making sure that our schools have all the support they need to deliver an excellent education for every child, every day.

Our people are our single greatest resource and we want to make sure we are creating the optimum environment and conditions so that everyone in AET can do their very best work. We will only deliver on our promise of excellence for all of our children if we attract, develop and retain the very best talent in the country and surround them with exceptional development throughout their careers.

We want people on our team who are excited by scale and the prospect of having a deep and lasting impact on the lives of tens of thousands of children. We also want people who are intellectually rigorous, stay curious, and generous enough to be committed to the messy challenge of collaboration.

AET has an exciting future ahead and by joining us on this journey, you will have an unparalleled opportunity to make a lasting and meaningful impact on the children and young people in our schools.

Equality, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

At AET, we want all of our employees to feel included bringing their passion, creativity and individuality to work. We value all cultures, backgrounds and experiences, and we truly believe that diversity drives innovation.

We also offer teacher training programmes across our network. For more information please click here.

To find out more about AET please click here.

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