Principal
Nova Hreod Academy
Swindon
- Expired
- Salary:
- Highly competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2024
- Apply by:
- 29 March 2024
Job overview
Nova Hreod is a Secondary Academy serving local communities in and around north west Swindon. It is a thriving 11-16 secondary school with almost 1,000 pupils on roll and is the school of choice for many families in the area. The academy’s sports, technologies and performing arts facilities are modern, well equipped and provide fantastic opportunities for talented and creative students in all manner of activities, both within the curriculum and beyond.
Staff at the academy are dedicated to the school, they work incredibly hard and want the best for their students. Nova Hreod Academy is brimming with potential. However, despite these strengths, the last couple of years have been more challenging with pupil attendance and achievement a particular focus. We expect the successful candidate to have an immediate impact on the culture of the school, and for student attendance and outcomes to improve significantly and quickly. We will support the successful candidate in ensuring the very highest academic standards, where exemplary behaviour allows teachers and pupils to focus on the core business of teaching and learning.
If you are a Principal or outstanding Deputy who believes that children and young people can achieve extraordinary things and will build a team and a school to make it a reality, we will be excited to read your application. Reporting directly to the Regional Director, we will support you both personally and professionally, bringing the strength of a national group to support your development and that of your staff and school, ensuring you have access to educational expertise, specialist finance, HR and technology business partners.
United Learning is deeply committed to the progress, success and safeguarding of all children and young people. We believe in serving local communities through creating excellent schools which provide outstanding education and support all the children of the area. Our Principals are central not only to the leadership of their school but also to the collective leadership of the Group. As a Group, we aim to offer more by working together than any single school could on its own: we aim to support and develop leaders, provide excellent professional development for all staff and offer broader experiences for children and young people.
We are an inclusive employer and looking to improve the diversity of our leadership, particularly in relation to black, Asian and minority ethnic leadership, and we welcome and value all applicants.
We are working in partnership with Propelo to recruit for this vacancy. If you wish to arrange to visit the school or require any further information please visit:
https://unitedlearning.our-careers.co.uk or email unitedlearning@propelo.co.uk
About Nova Hreod Academy
Nova Hreod
Nova Hreod Academy is well placed in an excellent Location, 1 hour from London, 30 minutes from Bath and 20 minutes to the beautiful Cotswolds. We are lucky enough to have a modern building that was designed with learning and development in mind.
We are committed to becoming one of the country's top-performing schools. At Nova we believe that all children have limitless potential and that all children can succeed when they are educated in an environment that is characterised by high standards of behaviour and excellent teaching. Our entire staff share a common goal: giving every child the best possible chance of success. We are determined to prove that students in Swindon can achieve at the very highest levels.
We deliver on our promise of the best chance of success by ensuring that:
- Students gain high value qualifications which will open as many doors for them in the future as possible
- Students develop a real understanding of subject disciplines, learning knowledge and ways of thinking that take them beyond everyday understanding enabling them to better participate in our democratic society
- Students get the opportunity to take part in many high-quality experiences – trips, visits, clubs and events which allow them to flourish outside the classroom, developing their character.
We place learning at the heart of everything that we do at Nova. Our expert teachers deliver a rich and ambitious academic curriculum in a calm, purposeful atmosphere. Our students work exceptional hard to develop a good understanding of the subject disciplines that we teach.
Beyond the classroom our house system, student leadership opportunities, and our enrichment programme, SuperNova, ensure that students have a wide range of opportunities to develop their character and to find and develop new passions, skills and interests.
At Nova every day we strive to create an atmosphere of joyful excellence where our students experience is characterised by both high standards and high levels of support. Where both fun and hard work are prioritised and where staff develop warm relationships with students whilst ensuring that standards of behaviour remain exemplary at all times.
Our values - Excellence, Hard Work and Kindness are at the heart of everything we do. The leadership team is dedicated not only to academic excellence and character development but also to ensuring that the workload for teachers is balanced, manageable, and well-considered.
How do we reduce workload for teachers?
- High-quality, centralised curriculum resources
- Live marking in lessons, so marking does not need to be taken home
- A centralised behaviour management system
- Visible and supportive senior leadership team (SLT)
- Well-planned deadlines
These are just a few examples of how we’re making sure our teachers can focus on what matters most: delivering excellent lessons to our students.
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