Teacher of English
Pool Academy
Cornwall
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS / UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 4 March 2025
Job overview
Join Athena - Inspiring World-Class Education Together!
At Athena, we are a passionate and forward-looking educational organisation committed to providing worldclass education and helping individuals lead great lives. Our core values of "dream big, take responsibility, and be kind" guide our mission to create a supportive and inclusive learning environment where everyone can excel and grow.
At Athena, we believe in the power of education to transform lives and shape a brighter future. We are dedicated to fostering a strong sense of community, where students, educators, and parents collaborate to achieve academic excellence and personal growth. Our commitment to "dream big, take responsibility, and be kind" underpins everything we do, inspiring our students to aim high, take ownership of their learning, and treat each other with respect and compassion. We are inspired by wisdom, creativity and learning. Determined to create a world where all children get to go to great schools, our mission is to provide the knowledge and education to bring opportunities, choices and freedom. If you want to be part of an inspirational team of big thinkers who will support you to develop your full potential and value your knowledge, passion, wellbeing and commitment, it sounds like you could be on your way to joining us and becoming an Athenian.
As an Athena Teacher, you will be responsible for delivering world class education to our students. You will be accountable for creating a holistic learning environment that maximises learning opportunities. You will create a disruption free environment that focuses on learning outcomes that inspire our students to succeed and strive to lead great lives.
How you will be doing it
Dream Big:
· Deliver value opportunities for world class education for all students
Take Responsibility:
· To maintain confidentiality of information acquired in the course of undertaking duties for the department.
· Ensure Health and Safety and Safeguarding are at the centre of your approach.
· Take accountability for your own development and aspire to deliver the very best practice across all areas of your role.
· To attend staff meetings and school-based CPD days as required.
Be Kind:
· To encourage acceptance and inclusion of all students. Support positive strategies for promoting equality and for challenging racial and other prejudice.
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About Pool Academy
Pool Academy, in the heart of West Cornwall, is a community school that puts its pupils at the centre of everything it does. With excellent pastoral care, allied to an aspirational academic curriculum, we offer a student experience which is second to none.
Popular with parents and surrounded by beautiful countryside and amazing beaches, Pool Academy is the perfect place to take the next step in your career and enjoy all that Cornwall has to offer. Staff at Pool Academy pride themselves on providing a supportive environment, a clear vision for raising outcomes and a belief in the importance of extra-curricular opportunities.
Central to everything we do are our core values: Aspiration, Belonging and Respect. We have the highest aspirations for all students and we mirror these with the very highest expectations for student conduct. This ensures learning is maximised and all students thrive in a caring and respectful environment.
Our vision is driven by the desire to remove any barriers which could prevent students from achieving academic success. Key to this is giving students opportunities to develop self-esteem through academic success. Our dedicated and highly skilled staff team thrive on this, working with parents and carers to produce confident, ambitious young adults who are equipped with the education and skills they will need in order to make positive and sustained contributions to society.
Our students are confident and articulate. They are polite and well behaved. Student leadership is a strength of the school and the prefects underpin a strong network of student support and leadership.
Pool Academy is a technology led creative community which uses resources to engender success for all its students. Every student and member of staff has an iPad and their use is embedded in our ambitious and rigorous curriculum.
The Trustees are deeply invested in all areas of the school and have been instrumental In ensuring our facilities and learning environment are the envy of many other schools. Our extra-curricular offer is extensive. We believe that an arts and sports education is essential for students’ development and that creativity is central to all disciplines.
Our website (Click here for website) provides an initial insight, therefore you are very welcome to visit us and see for yourself what makes Pool Academy so special.
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