Principal
Solihull Alternative Provision Academy
Solihull
- Expired
- Salary:
- L27-L33
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Easter 2017 or sooner
- Apply by:
- 21 November 2016
Job overview
The Solihull Academy will open in September 2017 and is an Alternative Provision Free School that has been established by three secondary schools in Solihull. The academy will cater for students' aged 13-16 for whom mainstream education is no longer appropriate and where a different type of educational experience is necessary to change the outcome for these students.
The Solihull Academy Trust Board is looking to recruit a Principal to lead this exciting new school.
We are taking every opportunity to create excellent facilities to meet the needs of our students. The Solihull Academy will be in a new innovative purpose built fully refurbished campus.
We are also in a strong financial position ready to make the most of the future. Interested candidates are very welcome to contact Martin Murphy, Trust Board member, in order to discuss this exciting new position.
Application forms should be completed in full and attached to a letter of application. CVs will not be accepted. Please address all correspondence to Mr M Murphy, Solihull Academy, c/o Station Road, Knowle, Solihull, B93 0PT. For further information please contact: Michele Bull on 01564 732613 or email mbull@arden.solihull.sch.uk
We seek to appoint a Principal who is:
- a dynamic and inspirational leader with the vision and drive to advance and further strengthen our school;
- an excellent practitioners to lead our very talented and reflective teaching team;
- a strategic thinker with the ability to be creative, rigorous and practical;
- passionate about realising the potential of all children within a multi-cultural inclusive school;
- able to maintain and nurture our ethos where all pupils can feel equally valued for their culture and contributions;
- able to demonstrate a ?air for working collaboratively to develop and maintain our very positive relations with pupils, staff, parents/carers, governors, our neighbouring schools and the wider community.
Closing Date: Monday 21st November 2016 (8.00am)
Shortlisting: Monday 21st November 2016
Interviews: 1st and 2nd December 2016
We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion. Only applications submitted on the academy's application form will be accepted. Solihull Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all Staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.
Solihull Academy (APU)
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About Solihull Alternative Provision Academy
- Solihull Alternative Provision Academy
- Cranmore Avenue, The Quadrangle, Shirley, Solihull
- West Midlands
- B90 4LE
- United Kingdom
"Open a school", they said...so we did...
"It’ll be great", they said...And it was, but also the toughest thing professionally any of us have done.
"So many pupils need something different", they said... and they were correct... our students did and do need something different.
Since April 18 we have been on a journey to use the idea of “Alternative” in Alternative Provision as a driver to create a new school for the most vulnerable pupils in the local authority, and the impact and results tell us we are making a real difference. Prior to our opening our local authority permanently excluded more secondary students than 90% of the rest of the country despite being the wealthiest borough in the West Midlands. So, in a unique partnership between the Local Authority, mainstream school and ourselves, we built a school, provision and curriculum to combat that and ensure the best possible outcomes for highest tariff students in the local authority. We have developed our school based on 4 specific targets:
-Prevent PEX
-Fewer FTE
-Beat Baseline and/or KS2 targets
-No NEETS
Every decision we make and every action we take is based on these four targets and absolutely child-focused and, from that simple premise, we have created our Academy. If you are looking for a new challenge and have unconditional positive regard, emotional resilience and utter belief that every child deserves a better future, then maybe we and, more importantly, our students need you as part of TeamSA.
Solihull Alternative Provision Multi Academy Trust: Let's go to work!
Any questions about our exciting School, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
www.sa.solihull.sch.uk
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