Senior Strategic Lead (English and Creative Learning faculty
Windsor Park Middle School
Staffordshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- L2-6
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2017
- Apply by:
- 2 April 2017
Job overview
Windsor Park CE Middle School is a popular school, yrs.5-8, situated in a rural location with excellent transport links. Our school is a place of endeavour, teamwork, friendship and laughter. We require for a September 2017 start:
Senior Strategic Lead (English and Creative Learning faculty) L2-6 Creative and ambitious? Primary or secondary trained? We need you to lead and strengthen our English and Creative Learning faculty. Already ‘Good with Outstanding Features’, our children love to learn and staff are dedicated and passionate about ‘Learning for Life’. Building on our existing strengths, you’ll take this team to outstanding and strengthen leadership and management.
This is the chance to use your creativity to implement new and innovative ways of teaching and learning. A strong leader, you will motivate and encourage staff. Together with our supportive group of parents and governors you will assist the school to become exceptional and we will support you in your ambitions.
We are looking for an inspirational leader with enthusiasm and imagination. You will work alongside a forward-thinking team to further enhance the provision for children ensuring every child receives an outstanding education.
We are seeking to appoint a Senior Strategic Lead who will also:
- Have the ability to teach and lead the English department
- Lead the faculty of Creative Learning (History/Geography, Music, PE, French, Art, DT and RE)
- Work closely with the Assistant Headteacher to develop outstanding teaching
- Use a range of assessment data to check progress and address underperformance
- Inspire and engage our students and staff team
- Demonstrate a range of creative teaching strategies and encourage active
research across the school - Identify best practise, support colleagues and foster an open learning culture
- Display strong leadership, negotiating and influencing skills
Application forms are available to download at www.windsorpark.staffs.sch.uk and should be forwarded to Mrs J Collins either by email to jcollins@windsorpark.staffs.sch.uk or post to the address above. Applications to be received by 10:00am on Monday 3rd April 2017. Interviews will be held on 5th April 2017. Please call Mrs. Wilbraham-Jones on 01889 563365 for further details. As from 1st April 2017 Windsor Park Middle School will convert to an academy and become a founding member of the Uttoxeter Learning Trust.
“This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment"
This position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.
Windsor Park CE Middle School
Springfield Road, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. ST14 7JX
Telephone: 01889 563365
Fax: 01889 568150
E-mail: office@windsorpark.staffs.sch.uk
Headteacher: Mrs L Wilbraham-Jones
Executive Headteacher: Mr P Slack
About Windsor Park Middle School
- Windsor Park Middle School
- Springfield Road, Uttoxeter
- Staffordshire
- ST14 7JX
- United Kingdom
Windsor Park CE C Middle School is a mixed, non-selective, Christian middle school in Staffordshire, serving students from the age of 9-13. The middle school, situated in Uttoxeter has approximately 371 students on record.
Windsor Park CE C Middle School was identified as good with outstanding leadership and management, along with outstanding behaviour and safety of pupils in 2015.
Executive Headteacher
Mr Phil Slack
Headteacher
Mrs Lisa Wilbraham-Jones
Values and vision
Windsor CE C Middle School promotes the Christian values is a welcoming and nurturing learning environment. It promotes the values of endeavor, teamwork, friendship and laughter and it guides students to become good, kind, honest and courageous individuals. Students are nurtured to become curious in all that they learn, creative and compassionate and it works to encourage and support them to reach their full potential in all that they do. The school’s motto is: ‘Eruditio pro Vita’ – meaning ‘Learning for Life’. The wellbeing of individuals is at the core of the secondary school’s values and it works to ensure that solid relationships between staff, students and parents are in place. Students are encouraged to get involved with extra-curricular activities to expand their learning experience outside of the classroom. Windsor CE C Middle School holds a Sports England Activemark Gold status, along with a Let’s Get Cooking accreditation.
Ofsted
“The school is a close and caring community where all students are known and supported as individuals. Adults lead by example and work as a close team, sharing leaders’ vision of continually improving students’ achievement and wellbeing.”
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