Teacher of Drama/Dance
The Wey Valley Academy
Dorset
- Expired
- Salary:
- AAT Teachers’ Main or Upper Pay Scale (spinal point dependent on experience)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September
- Apply by:
- 23 April 2020
Job overview
Ambitions Academies Trust (AAT) comprises schools from all sectors: mainstream (primary and secondary) and special. AAT secures outstanding achievement and improved life chances of all our pupils. All our Academies have high expectations as the focus of their work. We are strongly committed to supporting colleagues in developing their careers further and offer excellent CPD opportunities.
Are you looking for your next challenge? Do you relish the chance to support
colleagues to take rapid and sustained school improvement? If so, we have the
perfect opportunity for you!
This is an exciting opportunity to join an academy in Weymouth within Ambitions Academies Trust. Dynamic, forward thinking and absolutely committed to changing the lives of all young people, we are seeking new colleagues who will share our inclusive and positive ethos as our
pupil numbers continue to rise.
Who are we looking for?
- An excellent classroom practitioner
- Has excellent subject knowledge
- Is well organised and motivated to support pupils of all abilities and needs.
- Inclusive.
Our mantra, ‘High Expectations lead to High Achievers’ applies to everyone who is involved in the academy, whatever their role and we place a strong emphasis on staff well-being.
What can we offer?
- Directed time that is below 1265.
- Meetings for subject teachers only twice each half term.
- Three days a year ‘off timetable’ provided in the summer term for subject teachers who mark for exam boards
- Collaborative planning across the Trust with departments in different academies able to share resources and moderation linked by Microsoft Teams.
- Reporting to parents only three times a year and no requirement for written comments.
- No formally graded lesson observations – the emphasis is on coaching and sharing practice.
- A lesson visit schedule that is published one year in advance.
- A performance management process that is focused on three targets only: Subject knowledge, teaching and learning and either a departmental or whole school responsibility target regardless of your level of responsibility.
- Very flexible child-care arrangements - we are a very family friendly academy and
really do understand how hard it can be juggling family life and work at times. - Very visible and approachable senior leadership team.
- Real opportunities for career progression – our culture is very much to ‘promote from within’.
We are a truly comprehensive school located in the heart of our community. There are high levels of respect, support and kindness across our staff team and senior leadership.
Applications are welcomed from candidates with all levels of experience, including NQTs. The school offers an excellent professional development programme.
Closing date for applications: Friday 24th April 2020
Interviews will take place week commencing Monday 27th April 2020
Start Date: 1st September 2020
For an application pack please contact Jenna Stone, 01305 817000, and
stonej@weyvalley-academy.co.uk or visit our website www.weyvalley-academy.co.uk
Please note we DO NOT accept application by CV
Ambitions Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the
welfare of children. Rigorous checks will be made of the successful applicant’s
background credentials, including enhanced DBS checks.
*High Expectations Lead to High Achievers*
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About The Wey Valley Academy
- The Wey Valley Academy
- Dorchester Road, Weymouth
- Dorset
- DT3 5AN
- United Kingdom
Wey Valley Academy is a 990 PAN- pupil school which currently has 863 students. Wey Valley Academy joined Ambitions Academy Trust in 2019 and educates Boys and Girls aged between 11 and 16.
We believe that education should empower young people, giving them the knowledge to make sense of the world around them and the tools to shape it. Our curriculum gives students access to the best that has been thought and written across academic disciplines. This is supported by a broad range of additional extra-curricular opportunities which we strongly encourage students to make the most of via our enrichment curriculum. The Academy has a proud history of sporting excellence and students can also take part in a thriving Duke of Edinburgh Award programme or involve themselves in our dramatic productions and musical performances. Whatever interests a student has, they will find something for them at Wey Valley.
Visitors to the Academy often comment on the calm and purposeful atmosphere that they find, and the respect that students show towards one another and their teachers. We are a vibrant learning community that places learning at the centre of everything it does. Our expectations are high and whether you are reading this as a prospective student, parent, carer or member of our staff team, we hope you want to join us as we rapidly improve the quality of education on offer.
At Wey Valley Academy we are dedicated to promoting the British Values which will ensure that our students develop a strong sense of social and moral responsibility. We prepare our students for a life in Modern Britain by developing an understanding of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
Our Vision and Ethos.
A broad and balanced curriculum which is accessible and will challenge students on an academic and personal level is vital, as is building a young person’s confidence, resilience and communication skills through a student-centred community.
This will empower them to be central in driving change and shaping the future of the education we deliver at Wey Valley Academy. It will also provide students with life skills and support them in being the very best they can be.
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