Principal
Grace Academy Coventry
Coventry
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive Remuneration Package
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 23 April 2021
Job overview
Grace Academy Coventry is a thriving community school looking to appoint a new principal with high expectations to lead the academy into the next stage of its development. Our ambition is to become an outstanding first choice local academy, which encourages a love of learning that will last a lifetime.
Established in 2008, we are an aspirational and inclusive 11 – 18 academy with tremendous potential. Now part of the Tove Learning Trust, we work with other trust schools and share experiences across all aspects of student life so that they achieve the very best they can.
Currently the number of students on roll is 721 but parental engagement is much improved and pupil numbers are predicted to grow to meet the capacity of 1000. Although outcomes are not yet high, the school is making positive steps forward as it grows in confidence and improved results were achieved in 2019. The school has successfully moved from an Ofsted rating of serious weaknesses in February 2018 to requires improvement in December 2019, with leadership identified as a key strength. A recent monitoring inspection in February 2021 confirmed the rapid improvements.
A dynamic and creative individual, you will have a track record of success as a school/academy leader. You may be an experienced headteacher looking for a new challenge or alternatively a deputy headteacher/vice principal ready for the next step. Either way your exceptional people skills and the ability to establish relationships with diverse communities of students and families will have been key to your progress to date.
You will benefit from an enthusiastic, energetic and committed leadership team and a supportive staff. As part of the Tove Learning Trust, you will also have support from the trust's family of schools, a network of specialist school improvement directors, and the guidance of an exceptional CEO with a deep understanding of academy leadership. Tove Learning Trust is part of the SWAN teaching school alliance providing access to CPD and further qualifications.
For more information download full details on the role at www.pentir.com/gac . For a confidential conversation about the role then contact Mike Phillips (07830 313915) at our advisors Pentir. (mike.phillips@pentir.com).
Tove Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer. The academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post requires an enhanced DBS check.
About Grace Academy Coventry
Grace Academy is a welcoming and caring community where our core values of Limitless Potential, Intentional Excellence, Mutual Respect, Genuine Integrity and Amazing Grace underpin all that we do through ‘The Grace Way’. Our Values are central to our ethos, day-to-day curriculum, extra-curricular activities and pastoral structures. We are aspirational and proud of who we are as we fundamentally believe that all our students should thrive at school and that they have the Limitless Potential to succeed.
We have amazing students here at Grace who deserve the best possible life chances. We encourage students to be praised and recognised for their achievements whilst at the same time being challenged to meet our high expectations of them.
At the centre of all we do is the focus of what is best for our students; we not only focus on the academic excellence of students but also work with students on supporting them to be the best people they can be. My team and I pride ourselves on making decisions from a position of integrity. As a parent myself, I strongly believe that if it is not good enough for my children, then it is not good enough for Grace students. This is even more important in the current climate, as we put student wellbeing and aspirations at the heart of all that we do. We believe it is important for all students leaving Grace Academy to have the self-belief and qualifications they need in order to follow the path they have chosen; that students do not limit themselves and that staff and parents work together to support them in raising their expectations and aspirations. This is without doubt a strength of the school where we achieved ‘outstanding’ in our Ofsted inspection for Personal Development.
We value our staff and pride ourselves on our caring ethos with a strong and genuine focus on staff wellbeing. We are committed to developing our staff at all stages of their career, both internally and externally. This was recogrnised as a strength of Grace in our recent Ofsted inspection: ‘The school has implemented a well-thought-out, professional development programme for staff. Staff workload is carefully considered, which staff appreciate.
We have a friendly, innovative and exciting community in which to work and offer a variety of attractive benefits, such as an onsite gym and use of the sporting facilities, free eye care vouchers, refreshments available throughout the day, free lunches when on duty and the opportunity to be a part of the Staff Wellbeing and Workload Committees.
Grace Academy joined the Tove Learning Trust in April 2019. We are a close knit family of schools that have a shared vision and purpose: to deliver outstanding educational experiences that lead to inspiring outcomes. Each academy has a strong individual identity and tailors their educational provision to serve their local community. Academies within the Trust collaborate to share expertise and maximise opportunities and experiences for our staff and students.
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