Assistant Principal (Academic)
The King’s School, Canterbury International College
Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive Salary
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 7 October 2024
Job overview
January 2025 - March 2026 with a possibility to extend
Full Time, Fixed-Term
Are you passionate about education and looking for a leadership role in a dynamic and innovative environment? The International College, part of the prestigious King’s School in Canterbury, is seeking a dedicated and experienced Assistant Principal (Academic) to join our team.
Launched in 2018, The International College provides a gateway for international students aged 13 to 17 to enter the British education system. With state-of-the-art facilities and an award-winning campus in Canterbury, we offer fast-track GCSE courses and expert English language development, preparing students for entry into leading British schools.
As Assistant Principal (Academic), you will play a key role in ensuring the smooth running of academic operations at the College. You will lead and support our teaching staff, manage academic routines, and champion initiatives to enhance results, teaching, and learning.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Line management of teachers, overseeing appraisals, recruitment, and departmental inspections.
- Writing and managing the College’s timetable and liaising with admissions on curriculum planning.
- Managing examinations, reporting, and student progress tracking.
- Promoting innovative teaching projects and initiatives.
- Teaching a reduced timetable in one of the College’s subject areas.
If you are ready to make a real impact on students’ educational journeys and thrive in a supportive, forward-thinking environment, we would love to hear from you!
Applications must be made online and include a CV and Cover letter addressed to Jo Prior, Joint Principal. For further information and to apply online, please visit: Opportunities - The King's School, Canterbury (kings-school.co.uk)
Closing date: 7 October 2024.
The King’s school is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process which is in line with the statutory Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
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About The King’s School, Canterbury International College
- The King’s School, Canterbury International College
- Malthouse Road, Canterbury
- Kent
- CT2 7JA
- United Kingdom
The King’s School, Canterbury has been educating children of all ages since 597, though it actually only acquired its Royal Charter during the reign of King Henry VIII in 1541.
In September 2018, the school’s new International College opened its doors to a pioneering cohort of international students. The College is very much a global community within the context of a British boarding school. It provides students from all over the world with a supportive and empathetic environment, where they are able to acclimatise academically and culturally, before moving on to the senior school, or indeed schools further afield.
While they join the senior school for all activities and games sessions, all academic lessons take place at the College and are delivered by staff with extensive EAL and pastoral experience. Classes are limited to 12 students and are often much smaller.
The Year 9 course follows a broad curriculum, which give students new to the UK the opportunity to gain an understanding of how different subjects are taught, and what subjects they might like to choose for their GCSEs, when they move on from the College.
Students who join for the two-year programme in Year 10 are able to sample different subjects in their first year, while also starting on the GCSE syllabus in core subjects such as Maths and the Sciences. They are then able to join the one-year GCSE courses in Year 11, having gained a real insight into what subjects might suit them. Over the course of Year 10, many of our students discover hidden talents in subjects like Music and Art, for example, and then choose to take these as part of their selection of one-year GCSEs.
The most popular programme is the one-year GCSE course in Year 11. In many countries around the world, the transition from middle into senior school falls exactly between our Year 10 and Year 11, which usually makes it impossible for international students to make a successful move into the system at the start of Year 11. At the College we allow them to take a realistic number of GCSEs in just one year, enabling them to make informed decisions when it comes to A level choices. In addition, since the A level reforms that scrapped AS exams, gaining some GCSEs before joining King’s or another school for A levels will strengthen their UCAS application. All students take English (first or second language), Maths, Science (single, double, triple), Global Perspectives, their first language where it is available as a GCSE, and a feasible number of options, such as Economics, Art, or Music.
A number of staff joined the College with international experience, having worked or lived abroad themselves. We encourage our students to work hard and to be kind, as we believe this will allow them to make the most of their experience in the UK.
You may view our prospectus by clicking here.
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