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Teacher of Media

Teacher of Media

Winton Community Academy

Andover

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Salary:
MPR/UP
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
January 2018
Apply by:
12 October 2017

Job overview

Winton Community Academy are looking for an outstanding practitioner of Media Studies who is ambitious, organised, motivated and has sound subject knowledge in Media and another subject ideally English. 

Media is a relatively new subject in the academy and growing fast.  Applicants who are strong in media with other specialist subjects should apply as we can be flexible but our preference is English.

There are numerous opportunities for staff development and whole school responsibility.  If you are passionate about teaching and want to make a difference we would love to hear from you.

Why should you join the Winton Community Academy English team? 

  • Excellent facilities in Media.
  • Benefit from the support available from AET.
  • Fully committed to raising standards and delivering improving results.
  • Supported by the SLT to have smaller class sizes and increased lesson time in KS4.
  • Committed to personalised Continual Professional development at all levels
  • Small highly motivated team.
  • Staff iPad, laptop and Health Cover. 

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

  • An understanding of strategies for students to make rapid progress.
  • Knowledge of current educational developments at KS4 for Media and KS3 for English.
  • An ability to inspire and motivate students so they become passionate about      Media and make good or exemplary progress.

The successful candidate will be directly responsible for:

  • Developing home learning opportunities to extend the Media curriculum and extracurricular activities.
  • Responsible for the delivery of KS4 programmes of study.

Winton Community Academy is situated in Andover in the centre of Hampshire, a short commute from Winchester, Salisbury and many picturesque Hampshire villages.  Salary is negotiable based on experience and exceptional candidates.

As  the sponsor, AET believes that all young people deserve to become world-class learners – to learn, enjoy, succeed and thrive in a first rate educational environment with the best facilities, the best teaching and the most up-to-date resources available to them.  In each of our academies, you will benefit from visionary, inspirational and dynamic leadership and be empowered to develop your own skills with access to world-class CPD and Talent Management programmes.  You will also be entitled to the following benefits: a health cash plan, vehicle affinity scheme, childcare vouchers and Westfield rewards.

This position is required for January 2018. 

We would encourage you to visit the academy, to arrange this please contact Jackie Lusk on 01264 325955.

Interviews are scheduled to take place on Monday 16th October 2017.

Closing date for applications: Noon on Friday 13th October 2017.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.  All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.

AET is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts.

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AET is recruiting for School Direct placements for School Direct Placements, please visit our website http://aetnationalteachingschoolalliance.org/ for further details.

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About Winton Community Academy

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Winton Community Academy is a rapidly improving 11-16 school situated in Andover in the centre of Hampshire, a short commute from Winchester, Salisbury and many picturesque Hampshire villages.

We are an average sized school and offer tailored learning opportunities and a creative curriculum which meets the needs of our whole school community.

Winton has many strengths and people who visit are always impressed with our outstanding students, excellent facilities and calm purposeful learning environment.

Winton aims to provide an outstanding education for all of the local children. What we want is an outstanding Andover education system for Andover children. The vision needs to be that all three phases of education in Andover are all excellent. Winton is very much at the centre of this vision.

The most important part of any school is the quality of the teaching. When walking around the corridors at Winton you will see students engaged in their learning, being challenged to think.  The expectation is to have a positive mind set, an 'I can...' attitude to their learning. Rather than thinking I can't do this students are encouraged to think 'I can't do this...yet'. Classrooms are positive because of the positive relationships between students and teaching staff.  Expectations are high, with regular and meaningful homework and innovative and engaging classwork which embraces new ideas and new technologies.

Our Curriculum

Our vision for the delivery of a broad and balanced 11-19 curriculum is founded on the following key principles:

  • Students can progress at their own pace but with staff ensuring that there is always pace and challenge
  • Technologies e.g. ICT will be as available as electricity and seen as another utility, which will facilitate learning in different contexts;
  • Personalised learning will be a reality with a wide ranging curriculum, which provides far more choice and less prescription;
  • Learning experiences will be coherent, integrated and not fragmented with an emphasis on learning and skill acquisition and transferal;
  • The curriculum will develop lifelong learners who will be able to adapt to take up jobs in the future, which do not presently exist;
  • The curriculum will embrace wider curriculum opportunities that bring learning to life in vivid fashion;
  • The curriculum will reflect the values and beliefs outlined previously: personal development is integral to the outcomes of the curriculum and success measures for this curriculum.

Ofsted

Winton was recently inspected by Ofsted and for the second time running has been recognised as a “Good” school.

The report sets out how the school has high aspirations for all their pupils, preparing them for the next stages of life with a curriculum that is “relevant and ambitious.” Inspectors noted that staff at Winton appreciated leaders’ efforts to help manage workloads.

The school has also been praised for their decisive response to the challenges students face post Covid, including forging positive relationships with pupils to better help their behaviour and personal development. The report recognises the efforts to create a healthy school culture, by creating a “strong system for support” that helps to improve all areas of school life.

Other highlights from the report include:

  • Leaders are aspirational for all pupils and have ensured that there is an ambitious and rich curriculum that is well organised and sequenced logically. Pupils are taught by enthusiastic and specialist teachers who present knowledge well.
  • There are high expectations of pupil behaviour. Pupils feel safe and bullying is not tolerated. There are appropriate structures in place to feedback pupil responses to behavioural concerns.
  • Leaders are especially passionate about reading, with effective support on hand to make sure gaps in pupil knowledge are filled. The new library supports pupils reading for pleasure and pupils have frequent opportunities to explore and engage with varied and challenging reading.
  • SEND pupils feel involved in both subject work at school as well as broader personal development in school life.
  • Leaders have placed great emphasis on pupils’ personal development. Careers and healthy relationships are of the utmost importance, with the opportunities to meet, “multiple partners from the world of work, apprenticeships and post-16 education.”
  • The report commends Winton’s range of extracurricular experiences, with inspectors noting how, “pupils gleefully spoke to inspectors about a recent photography trip to New York.”

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Staff Benefits

Development:

We are committed to developing all staff at all levels through high quality development opportunities, resources, and experiences  that will support you on your professional learning journey with Lift Schools.

Lifestyle:

We champion agile/flexible working across the Trust to help our people achieve an optimal work/life balance.

Money:

All staff have access to our pension schemes (Local Government Pension Scheme and Teachers’ Pension Scheme).  Everyone has free access to financial advice & support and can access a wide range of retail discounts through our Lift Schools Benefits scheme. We also offer Technology Loans to help with any big digital purchases.

Wellbeing:

We recognise that mental wellbeing is just as important as physical health and have set up employee assistance programmes which offer free and confidential counselling 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our employees can access our health cash place scheme from BHSF.

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