Vice Principal
The GORSE Academies Trust
Leeds
- Expired
- Salary:
- L15 – L19
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2017
Job overview
Are you ready for the next step …? Are you an ambitious leader who wants to make a difference?
We are looking for talented leaders to join our team and work within our primary schools from September 2017.
Hillcrest Academy was the first school to join The GORSE Academies Trust in January 2014 as an inadequate school; it was judged to be outstanding in all areas in September 2016. Ofsted recognised that: ‘the impact of The GORSE Academies Trust in transforming a long-standing legacy of underachievement had been remarkable.’
We currently have three primary schools: Hillcrest Academy, Morley Newlands Academy and Ryecroft Academy. We are excited that a further school is joining us in September 2017 and will be opening South Bank Primary Academy, a new free school, in September 2018.
The GORSE Academies Trust has an increasingly well-known reputation for changing the deal for children and young adults who come from some of the most impoverished parts of the country. Our central mission is to ensure that our children receive an outstanding education that focuses on aspiration, high expectations and personalisation.
Do you want to be part of our team and make a real difference to the lives of children in Leeds?
Hillcrest Academy: www.hillcrest.leeds.sch.uk
Morley Newlands Academy: www.morleynewlands.leeds.sch.uk
Ryecroft Academy: www.ryecroft.leeds.sch.uk
If you are looking for a position as Assistant Principal, Vice Principal or Associate Principal, look no further!
- Assistant Principal (L8 – L11)
- Vice Principal (L15 – L19)
- Associate Principal (L21 – 24)
Are you interested in finding out more and telling us about yourself? If so, please contact Mark Randall, Director of Primary Education: mark.randall@hillcrest.leeds.sch.uk to discuss the roles further. For further information about The GORSE Academies Trust, please visit our website www.tgat.org.uk
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All positions are subject to a DBS check & satisfactory references.
Attached documents
About The GORSE Academies Trust
- The GORSE Academies Trust
- Bruntcliffe Lane, Morley
- Leeds
- LS27 0LZ
- United Kingdom
GORSE has a well-known reputation for changing the deal for children and young adults who come from some of the most impoverished parts of the country. Our central mission is to ensure that we play a significant role in removing the stubborn link between poverty and academic underperformance. Consequently, our students and our professionals are in the vanguard of the national drive which seeks to prove that where teaching is excellent, leadership inspiring and behaviour standards exemplary all children excel regardless of background.
ALL CHILDREN EXCEL REGARDLESS OF BACKGROUND
Because of the trust’s reputation, we are also seeing the development of a new approach to academisation which is bringing already strong and successful schools forward to convert as new partners within GORSE. Those schools recognise the enormous advantage that comes from belonging to a network of excellence in both leadership and teaching, and we as a trust recognise that there is much to be gained when great organisations are brought together.
WE AS A TRUST RECOGNISE THAT THERE IS MUCH TO BE GAINED WHEN GREAT ORGANISATIONS ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER
Our final aim is to challenge the underperformance of other schools and academies through the excellence of our own work. In particular, we have sought to do this through taking advantage of the free schools programme and our trust will continue to look to develop new schools and to sponsor already existing schools in areas of significant educational underperformance. We believe that all great organisations have a role to play in agitating the system.
OUR SCHOOLS ARE HAPPY PLACES WHERE EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKING HARD AND RECOGNISING THE SUCCESS OF OTHERS.
Our trust is also proud of its generosity in sharing ideas and approaches to the development of teaching and leadership with partners regionally and nationally. We are also humble, and take great enjoyment in learning from others including the very best practitioners nationally and internationally but also those struggling most in their work. This is because we believe that all schools contain areas of brilliance and it is for us as professionals to seek them out, understand their success and ensure that their magic is disseminated.
GORSE, of which GORSE SCITT is a central part, was awarded Teaching School Hub status in 2021. This saw the opening of Leeds Teaching School Hub in September of that year. We were delighted to learn in February 2024 that we have been designated to function as Leeds Teaching School Hub for a further 4 years. That renewed status now means that, as a trust, we have a great responsibility placed upon us to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. The most important single quality that we hope to nurture in all professionals is a passion and love for education and a determination to inspire and support young people, regardless of background.
You can find out more about us, our values and people at www.tgat.org.uk.
Sir John Townsley - Chief Executive Officer.
Leanne Griffiths - Deputy Chief Executive Officer.
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