Head of Religious Education (and Whole School Lead for beginner teachers)
Orchard Park High School
Croydon
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS + TLR2C currently £7,757. Outer London
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 9 January 2025
Job overview
We are looking for a Head of Religious Education. This is an exciting opportunity to join Orchard Park High School and become an integral member of the school. This is an ideal role for someone looking to develop their leadership of teaching and learning in a school.
The successful applicant must be high performing and passionate about education and the improvement of life changes for our children, and committed to continuing to develop the foundations we have already built here at Orchard Park High School. Our school will be disruption free every minute, of every lesson, of every day. We are relentless in our drive for high expectations. Our CPD provision is excellent.
Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive, non-selective and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs with remote / hybrid working opportunities where appropriate. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.
Knowledge and understanding underpins compassion, sympathy, tolerance and wisdom. We believe religious education has a key role to play in the lives of our pupils. The Head of RE will ensure an ambitious and inclusive curriculum is delivered across the school, both in and out of the classroom and helps shape our pupils academic and character education.
Key responsibilities:
- To set, monitor and evaluate the pupil progress in KS3 and in KS4 public examinations to make a measurable contribution to whole school performance
- To lead curriculum development of KS3 RE, core RE at KS4 and GCSE RE to ensure the delivery of an appropriate, comprehensive, ambitious, resourced, high quality and cost-effective curriculum programme
- To drive departmental improvement which contributes positively to the achievement of the school development plan and which actively involves staff in its direction and implementation
- To engage all subject staff in the consistent implementation in schemes of learning
Additional Responsibility
Whole School Lead for beginner teacher development
- To implement an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and impactful beginner teacher programmer in line with statutory frameworks
- To monitor and support the overall progress of all beginner teachers
- To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides beginner teachers across the school with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential
- To share and support the school’s responsibility to provide a clear and context specific training experience that aligns with whole school ethos on the Quality of Education
- To lead on specific area(s) agreed alongside the SLT lead for teaching and learning
- To observe the practice of teachers and provide accurate and supportive feedback
- To liaise with the school improvement team in GLT to support our ECTs.
Part time hours for this role will be considered
Please download the recruitment pack for further information.
Closing date for receipt of applications is 9am Thursday 9th January 2025.
We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date.
We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive.
If you require any support or adjustments to interact with us, please let us know. Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Attached documents
About Orchard Park High School
- Orchard Park High School
- Orchard Way, Shirley, Croydon
- Surrey
- CR0 7NJ
- United Kingdom
Orchard Park is one of the most successful schools in the area, achieving excellent GCSE results well above the national average for progress 8. The school is proud of its ambitions and our diversity. We pride ourselves on routines, systems and excellence. Consequently we are a calm, happy and high achieving school full of warmth. The school is smaller than lots of large secondaries; every child is known and cared for.
Working with us is very rewarding: you will flourish as a member of staff whilst leading our pupils academically and pastorally, to be confident, capable and ambitious. You will care deeply about addressing disadvantages and giving every child the opportunities they deserve, creating a sense of belonging and motivation, establishing high expectations and rewarding success. Pupils behaviour is excellent. They listen attentively, speak politely, work hard and are welcoming. They are proud of their school.
The school’s leadership is not only committed to developing a school grounded in academic success, and the development of character, but also a school in which workload for staff is sensible, manageable and all tasks are impactful.
Orchard Park believes in evidence led approaches, teaching in a traditional manner built around explicit instruction. They firmly believe that teachers are the experts in the room, and teach from a high quality, knowledge - rich curriculum. The knowledge is carefully selected.
How do we reduce workload and increase well-being for teachers?
- High quality centralised curriculum resources
- Live marking in lessons and whole class feedback
- Centralised behaviour systems
- Highly visible and supportive SLT
- Carefully planned deadlines
- Free breakfast for all staff every day
- Fun Friday activities for staff as well as pupils
These are only some of the things we do to allow teachers to focus on the main thing, teaching great lessons to our children.
Greenshaw Learning Trust – About us
The Greenshaw Learning Trust (GLT) provides an effective structure for schools to achieve real benefits from school to-school collaboration, and a culture of trust and openness that promotes honest and transparent dialogue and mutual support.
At the heart of the Trust is proven school improvement advice and guidance – with regular meetings with school leaders, input from specialist primary and secondary experts and staff training and development in all our schools.
All schools in the Trust receive expert advice and fast -response support on budget planning and monitoring, payroll, human resources, employment and legal advice, purchasing, capital projects, admissions, policy development and audit. Our catering team provides advice and guidance on meeting the statutory responsibilities for food standards, healthy eating and safety, and helps our schools achieve higher take-up of meals and significant cost savings through quality improvement and the central procurement of food supplies.
Each school’s local governing body receives support and advice to ensure that they can contribute effectively to the governance and leadership of their school, including tailored guidance to chairs and clerks and governor training.
The Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to meeting the needs of every student – our schools offer a wide range of special needs provision and across the Trust we have extensive expertise in behaviour, attendance, family liaison and therapies to support our students and their teachers.
Greenshaw Learning Trust Mission Statement
We are ambitious for our schools and their students. We believe that there is no ceiling on what can be achieved by anyone, regardless of their circumstances or background.
We are committed to providing a supportive and inclusive learning environment, giving every young person the opportunity to fulfil their potential now, and in the future.
We seek to realise the power of individuals and organisations working together in collaboration whilst retaining their individuality, and we recognise that we can always improve.
Greenshaw Learning Trust Employee Benefits
The Greenshaw Learning Trust recognises that our employees are our most important asset and we are aware that the quality and commitment of our employees is critical to our success. We offer all our employees the following staff benefits:
- Excellent CPD opportunities and career progression.
- Employer contributions to Teachers Pension Scheme.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Gym membership scheme.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Eye Care Voucher Scheme.
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