Trust Subject Leader for Science
Thistley Hough Academy
Stoke-on-Trent
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- L11 - L14
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Easter 2021 or sooner
- Apply by:
- 22 January 2021
Job overview
Your Opportunity
We are looking to appoint an inspirational and highly effective Subject Leader for Science to lead on the design of curriculum provision and resources for Science across Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5. This will include the monitoring, evaluation and review of standards and provision within Science departments across each of our eleven secondary academies.
You will play a leading and highly visible role in the improvement of teaching and learning of Science and the academic success of all pupils across our eleven secondary academies, ensuring the highest standards of teaching, learning and achievement for all our students.
Creative Education Trust has a strong track record of improvement and we want to ensure that we build on this moving forward. Your new role within this new post will be integral in ensuring that this is achieved.
What we are looking for
We are looking for someone who has significant experience of leading successful Science departments, with a proven track record of positive outcomes for students across Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5.
You will need to have the ability to draw on ideas from research and experience to improve practice within our schools and have an awareness of curriculum changes.
We are seeking a confident and innovative practitioner who can drive our schools forward and ensure parity across our academies.
Why Creative Education Trust?
This is an opportunity for you to join a successful Trust on its next step of the journey and to have genuine impact on a wide range of students.
We have successfully transformed schools previously deemed to be inadequate into good ones in order that all our students can have the best start in life. We are committed to providing educational opportunity for children of all abilities and to building cultural capital through a wide range of co-curricular activities. Curricular innovation through our Knowledge Connected programmes promotes creative, integrated and pro-active thinking so that our students are equipped for the challenges of the 21st century.
As part of Creative Education Trust, you can help us inspire and enable young people to build successful lives on foundations of learning, resilience and employability and ensure that we continue to offer the best for our students.
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About Thistley Hough Academy
Welcome to Thistley Hough Academy – a community school in the heart of Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent. Our academy prides itself on its warm and welcoming ethos in which every student is valued as an individual. This is an important part of our identity and this ideology will always remain at the heart of our work. As an academy we believe passionately in supporting all students to achieve their absolute best.
Thistley Hough was first opened in 1938 and over the last seven decades scores of local children have been successfully educated at Thistley Hough. We are proud of our history and we remain dedicated to the same vision - to provide the best possible education for local children of all backgrounds, abilities and beliefs. Over 35 languages are spoken at Thistley Hough and we value and respect all faiths and cultures.We believe in celebrating success and we want our students to be recognised for the amazing things that they achieve. I have very high expectations of our academy and I am clear that all students must be aware of exactly what is expected of them.
In order to be an outstanding academy it is my belief that there are several key things that we must ensure are in place every single day:
• Quality teaching, academic support and enrichment that delivers excellent results and engages students
• The highest expectations of behaviour, uniform and student conduct in order to create a calm and productive working environment
• Outstanding and fully inclusive pastoral care and academic guidance
• Provision tailored to the personal needs of all students as individuals so that they may all achieve personal excellence.
You can be assured that we are relentlessly focussed on achieving these goals. We believe passionately in working closely with our community in order to ensure that every one of our students is cherished and nurtured. We want to work in partnership with all stakeholders to ensure success for our current students whilst continuing to strive for an outstanding school of the future.
Our Vision and Values
Our vision is very clear:
“Thistley Hough Academy: Where students are empowered to take responsibility for their future.”
We work with each student as an individual, providing an inspirational learning experience that ensures personal excellence. At Thistley Hough Academy we create well rounded, caring, compassionate and ambitious members of society.
The academy motto, adopted in 1938 when the school first opened and taken from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem ‘Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights’, epitomises these values:
“My open eyes desire the truth”
At Thistley Hough Academy, our thirst for knowledge and awareness is never-ending, as we continually seek ways to make our academy, our lives and our world a better place.
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