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Principal

The Farnley Academy

Leeds, West Yorkshire

  • Expired
Salary:
(L37 – L43)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
Easter 2018
Apply by:
19 January 2018

Job overview

11-16 years 

Number on roll: 1245

Required for Easter 2018 

Principal (L37 – L43)

An outstanding opportunity for an outstanding candidate

A well-qualified, enthusiastic and inspirational leader is required to assume overall leadership responsibility at our Outstanding academy. 

This is a key role in our future development and the successful candidate, in partnership with the Chief Executive Officer, will oversee all aspects of our work. The successful candidate will be an exceptional leader who can demonstrate passion, integrity and a strong record of successful practice. Our standards are high and we expect our new Principal to lead our continuing drive for excellence.

This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate who is keen to be at the heart of organisational change. The Farnley Academy enjoys enormous respect across the whole educational community and is at the forefront of national developments around teaching, assessment and leadership. In keeping with that reputation the academy is also a Teaching School and was awarded World Class Schools status in 2016.

Following a period of rapid transformation from Inadequate to Outstanding, as confirmed by the Ofsted Inspection of 2013, The Farnley Academy's examination results have continued to see students securing impressive results which facilitate their progression onto their chosen Post-16 pathways, including at The GORSE Academies Trust's academic Post-16 provider, Elliott Hudson College.  

The successful applicant will enjoy regular, personalised CPD opportunities within a culture which offers collaborative peer support & opportunities to review the academy's practice in a manner which is conducive to supporting colleagues in continuing to provide the very highest standards of education, care and guidance, so that all students are afforded the gift of a rigourous, academic education.

An Application Pack is available to download direct from our academy website at www.tgat.org.uk 

If you would like to know more about The Gorse Academies Trust, please visit; https://www.tes.com/jobs/employer/the-gorse-academies-trust-1071685 

Closing date for applications:  Friday 19 January 2018 (noon)

Applications to be returned to: recruitment@tgat.org.uk 

Interview date:  w/c 22 January 2018 

The Farnley Academy is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children, and applicants will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure.

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About The Farnley Academy

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The Farnley Academy, an Ofsted Outstanding (2023) secondary school, is part of The GORSE Academies Trust, a not-for-profit charity whose driving energy is centred on creating exceptional schools within the Leeds city region. The Trust has established a reputation for setting standards of excellence and achieving rates of improvements which have received national attention, not least of all those of The Farnley Academy! Chief Executive Officer, Sir John Townsley, is a National Leader of Education and gives considerable support to an increasing number of primary and secondary schools across the North.

Our mission is a simple yet powerful one; to create a school which is free from cynicism and unwilling to put limits on what young people can achieve. Indeed, we want to empower our young people with the means to bring about positive change in their own lives through the choices they make and to take responsibility for the future. It is to this end that teachers and other professionals work tirelessly for the benefit of our young people. This hard work has a profoundly positive effect not only on our students' motivation, enjoyment, and engagement in learning but on their social, moral, spiritual and cultural development.

The Farnley Academy serves the community of Farnley and surrounding areas and is located in the west of Leeds. In 2023, our students achieved a remarkable 77% grade 4+ and 56% grade 5+ in both English and Mathematics, firmly cementing our academy as the highest performing secondary school in the area by a significant margin. In addition to this this, the Progress 8 score achieved by the academy is consistently high, most recently achieving a score of +0.72, placing the academy in the ‘Well Above Average’ category and not only in the Top 5% of all schools in the UK, but most notably, the Top 1% of schools with a similar demographic to Farnley.

Teaching and learning are at the heart of our work. Lessons at The Farnley Academy are highly personalised. Teachers are very aware of what students of different abilities must do to achieve as well as they possibly can and use their assessment data with great precision to tailor tasks to different abilities. Students are very clear what they must do to be 'even better', because this is always stated to them by teachers.

Visitors to our academy always comment on how welcoming and friendly our school is. This comes from our pride in what we have achieved together and our eagerness to share this with others.

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