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Teacher of Religious Studies

Teacher of Religious Studies

Ark Acton Academy

Acton

Salary:
Ark Main Scale ( Inner London)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2022
Apply by:
6 June 2022

Job overview

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


Role: Teacher of Religious Studies

Start Date: September 2022

Salary: Ark Main scale (Inner London) 

Closing date: Ongoing

Interviews: Ongoing – (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. 


Ark Acton Academy is on an incredible improvement journey, and we are sowing the seeds of greatness for our local community. However, there is still much to do, and we are looking for a passionate teacher of Religious Studies who can help drive us forwards. 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


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. 


I look forward to receiving your application and welcoming you to our Academy. 


The ideal candidate will:

• Combine subject matter expertise with a passion for teaching Religious Studies

• Have the commitment, skills and character required to build a successful department

• 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


For more information and a full job description please see supporting documents.

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

To apply please go to https://arkonline.org/careers . Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. 


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


“This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for the role”.

We value diversity and are committed to safeguarding and promoting child welfare. The successful candidate will be subject to DBS and any other relevant employment checks.





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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