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Teaching Head of Year

Teaching Head of Year

Westfield Academy

Hertfordshire

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Salary:
Grade: TLR 2B (subject to year group) Scale: MPS / UPS (dependant on experience)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2023
Apply by:
27 February 2023

Job overview

Location: Watford, Hertfordshire

About the role

We are looking to recruit a Head of Year who is committed to comprehensive education - someone who genuinely wants to make a difference in students’ futures, and committed to, and understanding how outstanding teaching and learning can transform lives.

The main responsibility will be for delivering high quality teaching by modelling good practice. Additionally, you will be required to contribute to the overall ethos, work and aims of the Academy.

Key responsibilities

  • Develop, maintain, and stimulate pupils’ curiosity, interest and enjoyment in the specialist subject.
  • Develop pupils’ familiarity, competence and confidence within the subject.
  • Provide challenge for every pupil and encourage all pupils to achieve their potential.
  • Contribute and engage in extra-curricular subject-related activities.
  • Share in departmental best practice.
  • Willingness to invest extra time outside of a lesson to ensure students achieve the best standard at both Key Stage 3 and 4.


Why work at Westfield?

At Westfield, one size doesn’t fit all. We are not and never will be a selective Academy. We believe that it is our duty to cater to the wide variety of needs of all our students. Our numbers have increased dramatically over the last few years, as has our reputation.

You will join a caring supportive staff team with access to great sporting facilities and to a comprehensive wellbeing program. We are looking for talented individuals and are determined to develop your careers to their full potential. Most of our senior staff and middle leaders have been supported in their developmental journey, including our Senior Leads for CPD and Pastoral Support & Inclusion.

To flourish with us, you need to be hard-working, flexible, engaging and professional. You need to have high expectations for yourself, your colleagues and your students. Working at Westfield is rewarding but hard work, and you will need enthusiasm, creativity and a great sense of humour, alongside a willingness to throw yourself into all aspects of Academy life.

About us

We are an over-subscribed, high-performing, non-selective Academy. We have been a consistently “Good” OFSTED school since 2012, with our most recent inspection being December 2019. Our students have consistently achieved some of the best exam results in Southwest Hertfordshire.

In December 2016, we moved into a ‘new build’. This gave our students the learning environment they deserved, and they have thrived in it.

Our ethos is built on the words Believe | Strive | Achieve. We believe that students should have the highest possible aspirations for their future, and that through our support and hard work they should be able to achieve whatever they wish for.


About Westfield Academy

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+44 1923 231560

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Westfield Academy is a mainstream, co-educational, non-denominational, non-selective secondary school for children aged 11-19. It is situated in Watford in Hertfordshire and there are 950 pupils on its roll.

Westfield Academy prides itself on being an inclusive school, with a grammar stream, that caters for all abilities and gets the best out of every individual. The school converted to academy status in 2012.

Headteacher

Tim Body

Values and vision

At the heart of Westfield Academy's ethos is inclusiveness. Teachers strive to instil a strong sense of pride and belonging in Westfield pupils and the local community. The secondary school values every young person and has a strong commitment to developing positive attitudes in its students.

As well as focusing on academic subjects and physical activity, Westfield Academy endeavours to develop students’ spiritual, moral and social awareness, in order to ensure that pupils leave school as well-rounded individuals.

Ofsted report

“The school has improved in many areas since the predecessor school was last inspected. The quality of teaching has improved and the curriculum in Key Stages 4 and 5 is better suited to the needs of pupils. Subject leaders have a clearer understanding of the quality of teaching in their areas because they spend time monitoring pupils’ progress. Pupils make good progress. They join the school in Year 7 with levels of attainment that are consistently below the national average. When they reach the end of Year 11, their standards are in line with the national average in a wide range of subjects, including English and mathematics.”

View Westfield Academy’s latest Ofsted report

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