Principal
King Solomon Academy
Westminster
- Expired
- Salary:
- Significant and generous salary, including potential relocation bonus
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024 or earlier if possible
- Apply by:
- 9 October 2023
Job overview
Ark King Solomon Academy
Principal
Reports to: Regional Director
Start date: September 2024 or earlier if possible
Location: Marylebone, London
Salary: Significant and generous salary, including potential relocation bonus
Contract: Permanent, full-time
Closing date: 9am, Monday 9th October 2023
School visits: Thursday 28th September or by arrangement
Interviews: Week commencing Monday 9th October
Ark King Solomon Academy seeks to appoint a new Principal with a clear vision and understanding of what it takes to drive an excellent school. Consistently ranked as one of the highest-performing non-selective schools in the country, serving a disadvantaged community with over half of our pupils on free school meals, Ark King Solomon Academy has shown the impact of high expectations, an excellent school culture and excellent teaching.
Our school:
Ark King Solomon Academy is a popular and over-subscribed, all-through school based across two sites in Marylebone, Westminster. The school opened in 2007 and is made up of a three-form entry Younger Years site (including a purpose-built nursery with classes up to year 4) and an Older Years site (from Year 5 to Year 13) serving 1,300 pupils. As an all-through school, the Principal can impact our children’s journey from the moment they enter nursery at two, three and four years old until they leave our school at 18 years. Last year, Ark King Solomon Academy was the highest performing non-denominational school in the country. In 2023 the schools’ Progress 8 was over +1.1, ensuring they remain in the top 1% of schools nationally for the fifth year running.
The appointed Principal will be expected to develop their own vision for continued success whilst upholding the schools’ values, building credibility with the senior leadership team and pushing the schools’ priorities forward for further impact. Ark King Solomon Academy is part of the Ark network, one of the country’s most successful multi-academy trusts. They will join a team of ambitious Principals who work collaboratively to share best practice, provide support for one another, and improve what we do as a school and as a network. In addition, the new Principal will work closely with our Regional Director for North London, Amit Hathi, and the current Principal, Max Haimendorf, to ensure a successful transition.
We welcome applications from both successful and experienced Vice Principals seeking their first headship, as well as existing Heads with the ambition to drive standards in a high-profile, all-through school.
What we offer:
We are offering a significant and generous six figure salary as well as the chance to work alongside some exceptional leaders who offer genuine support and capacity. In addition, at Ark you will have:
- Influence across network-wide issues through our principal meetings and regional collaboration
- Support from an experienced group of principals and your Regional Director
- On-hand expertise from our dedicated network education and operations teams who are ready to support you and your school
- Bespoke teacher development programmes supported by the Great Teacher Rubric
- Excellent career development opportunities across both the region and wider Ark network
- Access to excellent senior leadership training
How to apply:
To apply, please submit an application via the Ark recruitment portal by 9am on Monday 9th October. If you have any questions, concerns or time constraints with applying, please contact us directly.
We warmly welcome and encourage confidential conversations about the role and visits to our school for suitable candidates. If you are interested in finding out more about this opportunity, please contact our Regional Director, Amit Hathi on Amit.Hathi@arkonline.org or our Head of Talent, Lexy di Marco on Alexia.DiMarco@arkonline.org
For more information about the role, the school and Ark, please view the full job pack.
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.
Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment – this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred.
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About King Solomon Academy
King Solomon Academy is an all-through school for 3 - 18 year olds in Lisson Grove.
Pupils and their immense potential are at the heart of the academy. They live and work by the philosophy that there are no excuses and no short cuts to success, and promote excellence in every aspect of academy life.
Aims, Vision and Values
Our mission is to provide our pupils with a rigorous and transformational education which prepares them for success at university and beyond. We ensure that every pupil achieves academic success and has the real option of going to university. We want to make university education something which is accessible, exciting and aspirational. We believe our pupils work hard towards this goal because we make it real for them. We name our classes after well-known university cities and we name each year group by the year in which they will graduate from sixth form. We run residential trips to universities to open their eyes to the opportunties that university study can deliver.
In order to make our dreams for our pupils a reality, we foster values and approaches that transform the lives of our pupils. At the heart of our approach is that we are an all-through school with a thriving nursery provision. We believe in investing in knowing our pupils and their families extremely well, and we prioritise our pupils making extraordinary progress in the early years of their education. This sense of long-term commitment is core to our approach.
We have high expectations for all of our pupils, and believe that with great teaching and a lot of love and care, every child here can fulfil their potential.This both warm and strict approach means pupils feel safe and secure in the school but also confident to contribute to the future of the school and their community.
Long term, we aim to play our part in removing the educational disadvantage currently experienced by those born into economic deprivation our country. We strive to create role models and leaders in our community and through them to create a safer, fairer, and happier society.
Our vision
High expectations We are climbing the mountain to university
Excellent teaching We love teaching and learning and place it at the heart of all our work.
A rigorous and transformational curriculum Our all-through curriculum is carefully designed and implemented to ensure that our pupils have a journey from nursery to university
Exemplary Character Our focus on high quality relationships creates a powerful culture which ensures that our pupils develop exemplary behaviour and character.
A long-term commitment to every pupil As one of a handful of all-through schools with consistent cohorts of children across primary and secondary, we are able to develop a unique team and family orientated culture which ensures that each of our pupils and families are known and cared for as individuals.
Investment in our team We choose to work at KSA because we know we will work together to address educational inequality.
Efficient and effective organisation We carefully organise the operational and educational activities in our school to maximise our collective impact and make our work sustainable.
Specialisms
Like all Ark academies, King Solomon Academy has a maths specialism. Proficiency in maths is essential in every sphere of adult life, so we invest in the resources to attract and train the best maths teachers. We aim to produce confident and proficient mathematicians. We will ensure that pupils acquire skills as early as possible. We will help every student to maximise their skills and qualifications and offer those with particular ability the chance to accelerate their achievement in maths and further maths.
King Solomon Academy is a music specialist school. We chose music as a specialism because it is fun and inspiring and can involve every pupil. We believe that being part of the KSA orchestra will create a great sense of shared identity as well enabling our pupils to benefit from the known academic, intellectual and social advantages of musical training.
Ofsted
King Solomon Academy was inspected by Ofsted in May 2013 and was graded as "outstanding" in all areas. You can read the full report here.
Among the points highlighted by the Inspectors in the academy's first full inspection report since opening, they say:
“King Solomon Academy is an outstanding and unique 21st century school". Among many other points Ofsted praise KSA's creation and inspiration of "a community of enthusiastic learners, who are passionate about achieving academic excellence."
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