Teacher of Geography
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Blackburn with Darwen
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2017
- Apply by:
- 29 June 2017
Job overview
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy is an original sponsored Academy which opened in September 2008. We are an 11-18 school specialising in Entrepreneurship and Sport, located in the town of Darwen, situated in Pennine Lancashire. Since the Academy opened exams results have significantly improved. In 2013 the Academy was recognised by the SSAT as the 7th most improved school in the country in terms of GCSE results, and OFSTED (new May 2017 framework) have again graded the Academy as a ‘Good’ school in every respect.
During this time the number of students choosing Humanities subjects at Key Stages 4 and 5 has continued to grow, we are seeking to appoint an inspirational teacher who will join our committed team of Geographers, who will join us in our objective; to become Outstanding. The successful candidate will have the flexibility to offer teaching across the age ability and subject range. Teaching will include Key Stages 3 and 4, and we welcome applications from staff who also seek to teach AS and A Level Geography. We are looking for a passionate, dedicated, team player who puts the interests of the students first. Applications are invited from both experienced teachers and those new to the profession. Enthusiasm, potential and a desire to help young people achieve their goals are more important than experience. Informal visits to the Academy by prospective candidates are welcomed.
Our staff enjoy high levels of support, there is at least 20% PPA/non-contact time for all teachers, and rarely cover has meant never cover (for most staff since we opened). We run comprehensive induction programmes and there are thorough professional development opportunities for all. For further details and an application pack or to arrange an informal visit, please contact the Principal’s PA Sam Grimshaw, sam.grimshaw@daca.uk.com, at the Academy. Closing date for applications is noon on Friday 30th June 2017 with interviews taking place the following week.
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. References will be taken up for all shortlisted applicants and successful candidates will be subject to satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service
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About Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy (DACA) opened in the predecessor school buildings in September 2008, moving to its new town centre location in September 2010. The state of the art building features an entrepreneurship bridge, Darwen Creates. The Academy Sixth Form brought a new education offer for post 16 students with the outstanding new facilities at the Academy designed to be accessible to the wider Darwen community.
In 2011, its third year after opening, DACA was a finalist in the Academy of the Year category at the Education Investor Awards. On 11th April 2011 Prince William and Kate Middleton officially opened the Academy buildings in one of the last official engagements they carried out before their wedding later that month. Prince William praised the “wonderful, innovative, ground-breaking” academy and stated “I am convinced the academy will transform the lives of families in Darwen and, through its example, countless others elsewhere.”
In 2013 the Academy saw record A level Results with a pass rate of 100%, and celebrated another first for the Academy when Khushna Sulaman-Butt secured her place at Ruskin College, Oxford to read Fine Art – the first DACA student ever to progress to Oxford University.
2013 also saw DACA achieve a Good rating in all aspects of an OFSTED Inspection.
By 2016 the percentage of students achieving 5 or more GCSE passes at A* to C grade (including maths and English Language or Literature) had risen to 65% while the A Level pass rate and vocational equivalent pass rate at the Academy were both 100%, and at A Level only 46% achieved the highest A*-B grades. A record number of 68 of our students applied for and got their first choice of University.
There is regular emphasis and assessment of the specialisms of entrepreneurship and sport at the Academy. DACA has developed the characteristics of entrepreneurship which are embedded across all aspects of Academy life to raise the potential of students.
In 2015 the local business community recognised the impact of the Academy’s commitment to developing entrepreneurship with the Enterprise in Education Award at the Hive Business Awards 2015. Weeks later the Academy was named Secondary School of the Year by the Lancashire Telegraph and in October the Academy was named one eleven schools from eleven countries across Europe to have won the Entrepreneurial School of the Year Award 2015, a national and European recognition of the best schools championing entrepreneurship education.
In November 2016 the Academy received a British Council International School Award recognising its “outstanding development of the international dimension in the curriculum”. The award recognised Darwen Academy’s long-term commitment to improving education and enhancing understanding of different cultures through its programme of overseas visits and project work in disadvantaged communities.
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