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Teacher of French

Teacher of French

Ark Acton Academy

Acton

  • £35,368 - £45,876 per year
  • Expired
Salary:
Ark Inner Laondon Main pay scale
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
3 February 2023

Job overview

 

                                                                         


Teacher of French

SEPTEMBER  2023

Ark Acton Academy

 

Location: Acton, West London — Excellent transport links, Acton Town station only 5 minutes’ walk and ample car parking onsite.

Role: Teacher of French

Start Date: 31st August 2023

Salary: Ark Main scale (Inner London)

Closing date: 3rd February 2023

Interviews: On a rolling basis – (We reserve the right to close the advert early on appointment of a suitable candidate, early application is advised)

Contract: Full-time hours, permanent contract.

 

Come and work with great colleagues doing exciting things in West London’s best kept secret. Due to our rapid improvement and our growing numbers of students on role, we are now looking for a French Teacher to accommodate our large increase in student applications who want to move to our great school.

As a result of our obsessive focus on curriculum and our sensible model of teacher development we have seen our progress 8 score transform. French is extremely popular in the Academy and we now want an obsessive Teacher of French to join the team.  

We are a diverse and vibrant academy, having every language on the DfE census represented in the Academy and we are proud to be a true comprehensive school and we maintain this comprehensive intake right through into our 6th form.  To arrange a visit please email Ruth MacMurray rmacmurray@arkacton.org  

We place the curriculum – what we teach – at the heart of the academy and it informs all decisions we make. We are looking for someone who shares our belief in disciplinary thinking and who will help improve and refine our curriculum thinking.

In the words of Alex Standish, we believe that “school subjects then are a way of inducting children into the intellectual habits of humankind, and hence into a disciplinary conversation about knowing our world” and we are looking for someone who shares this belief to join our team.

View more information on our French Curriculum here

Benefits of Working at Ark Acton:

At Ark Acton we have stripped away anything we feel gets in the way of being a great teacher so that we can focus on the main thing. This includes:

  • Feedback policies that sit at department level
  • No graded lesson observations
  • No report writing
  •  No parent’s evenings
  • Only 2 data points a year
  • No ½ termly data metrics to track progress
  • Protected Department meeting and co-planning time built into the timetable and a teacher’s overall loadings.

 

We are heavily committed to staff welfare and development, and this includes:

  • Weekly staff training and coaching for every teacher
  • Subject-specific knowledge development
  • Free use of our leisure centre
  • Access to the school counsellor
  • Access to Ark’s employee rewards and benefits programme.

 

The ideal candidate will:

  • Combine subject matter expertise with a passion for teaching French
  • Have the commitment, skills and character required to be a team player
  • Share the Ark Acton Academy vision and be aligned with the six pillars underpinning it
  • Value and support practices driving continued progress across the network of Ark schools

View more information and a full job description, see supporting documents.

For Further information on the school please visit the school site at https://arkacton.org

View the school policies including the schools safeguarding policy here

View more information on the benefits of working for Ark here.

 

I look forward to receiving your application and welcoming you to our Academy. Please email j.morson1@arkacton.org for an informal chat with me.

 

To apply please go to https://arkonline.org/careers . Please submit your application by 3rd February 2023.

 

For further information, a confidential discussion or any technical queries please contact Ruth Macmurray, HR Officer at rmacmurray@arkacton.org 

 

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. To read more about Ark’s safer recruitment process, please click this link.

Ark Schools are committed to attracting, developing and retaining a diverse workforce, with a broad range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. To read more about Ark’s diversity and inclusion statement, please click this link.  

  

 

 

Attached documents

About Ark Acton Academy

At Ark Acton Academy we believe that every child, regardless of background or prior achievement, can be successful if given great teaching and pastoral support. Our mission is to create a school of the highest standard that achieves this through recruiting and training excellent teachers and support staff, and by developing a pastoral system that ensures no child is left behind.

Our mastery curriculum is at the heart of school life and ensures that all students get the opportunity to study academic disciplines and to wrestle with ways of thinking that take them beyond everyday understandings. Alongside this we invest heavily in staff training and development to ensure that every student is taught by a subject expert who is passionate about their subject and its importance to understanding the world around us.

Whilst we want all our students to leave Ark Acton Academy with the currency they need to access the next stage of their education and to have an unrelenting focus on hard work and discipline, we know that getting great exam results is only half of a good education: we are determined to deliver as many opportunities as we can for every child to flourish outside the classroom. We want our students to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with a child from a private school and compete for the same university place or job.

As part of Ark Schools, we have access to world class staff training and development, as well as expertise from across the network. Being part of a family of schools ensures that we can keep learning and evaluating our impact to ensure that every child who comes to Ark Acton leaves as a well-rounded and polite individual with the drive and resources to lead a happy and successful life.

Why work at Ark Acton Academy

At Ark Acton we have stripped away anything we feel gets in the way of being a great teacher so that we can focus on the main thing. This includes:

  • Feedback policies that sit at department level and do not require slavish marking of books
  • No graded lesson observations or spurious judgements
  • No report writing
  • No parent’s evenings
  • Only 2 data points a year
  • No ½ termly data metrics to track progress
  • Protected Department meeting time built into the timetable and staff loadings
  • Protected curriculum planning time built into the timetable and staff loadings
  • A constant SLT presence to maintain our calm, scholarly atmosphere
  • A binary behaviour system that enables disruption-free teaching.


Our curriculum

Our purpose as a school is to ensure our young people can go out into the world and live a life of choice and opportunity. We want them to leave Ark Acton having been inducted into systems of worthwhile knowledge that enable them to participate in and shape the national discourse.

In order to achieve this vision for our young people, we place the curriculum at the heart of school life. It drives all other decisions that we make and is the best means we have of demonstrating as a school what we believe in and what we stand for. In essence our curriculum is designed to ensure that all pupils at Acton acquire disciplinary knowledge that they cannot learn at home and that this specified curriculum knowledge is based on the most coherent and tested ways of conceptualising the world that we have.

Alongside our taught academic curriculum we run our co-curricular programme. This programme provides experiences and opportunities for all students to participate in individual and group activities that help them develop essential life skills. Debating and oracy sits at the heart of this model as we aim to enable all our students to develop confidence, articulacy and team-working skills.

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