Lead Teacher of Psychology
King Solomon Academy
Westminster
- £37,667 - £59,242 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Ark MPS/UPS plus TLR 2a (£3,213)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2025 or earlier by agreement
- Apply by:
- 4 November 2024
Job overview
King Solomon Academy
Lead Teacher of Psychology
Location: Marylebone, London
Salary: Ark Main Scale to Upper Pay Spine (Inner London) £37,667-£59,242 dependent on experience, plus TLR 2a (£3,213)
Contract: Permanent
Start date: January 2025 (or earlier by agreement)
Closing date: 9am on Monday 4th November 2024
This is a unique opportunity to join an outstanding school
About the role:
We are seeking an exceptional Lead Teacher of Psychology, ready to join our high-performing school and to contribute to achieving our mission.
As our sixth form grows, we are recruiting for an enthusiastic and talented teacher and leader to join our passionate team of teachers. Our Sixth Form was recently graded as ‘Outstanding’ in our latest Ofsted inspection in December 2023, you can read the report here. Social Sciences are some of the most popular subjects in our Sixth Form and they play an important role in the academic and cultural education of our pupils. We have well-established Psychology, Economics and Politics courses, and have expanded to offer Sociology this year too.
The ideal candidate will have experience of teaching or leading psychology in Sixth Form. They will also be excited about the prospect of contributing to the wider life of the school, for example by teaching a different subject in KS3 and/or KS4 or an additional subject in KS5 in the future.
Our ideal candidate will have:
· Experience of raising attainment in a challenging classroom environment
· Evidence of continually improving the teaching and learning of their subject though schemes of work and extra-curricular activities etc.
View the full job description and person specification here.
About our school:
King Solomon Academy is a genuine all-through school, with our pupils staying with us from nursery to sixth form across two sites, ten minutes-walk apart. Because of this, we have a unique opportunity to have a long term and dramatic impact on our pupils’ lives. Our mission is to provide a rigorous and transformational education, which starts in ensuring our pupils develop the vital building blocks for future success in communication and language as well as in reading, writing and maths in the primary phase. This means that in the secondary phase, we can focus on rapidly progressing towards achieving academic excellence for each and every pupil. In nine out of ten of the last ten years, KSA has achieved a progress 8 score of +1 or higher, meaning the vast majority of our pupils can go on to the sixth form pathways of their choice post-16. We have a thriving Sixth Form - mainly made up of academic A levels, alongside one BTEC course in Business Studies - which has been ALPS 1 for the last three years. With a huge focus on destinations throughout the whole school, this focus sharpens in Sixth Form. In Autumn 2024, 86% of last year’s Year 13 are going to selective universities or degree level apprenticeships.
Benefits of working for King Solomon Academy:
We believe in aiming high, working together, being kind and leading the way. Through weekly individual coaching, year group intellectual preparation time and whole school PD, we invest in your growth and development as a teacher to ensure you can excel in creating the best possible climate for learning for our pupils to thrive in.
Through our approach to professional development we can promise a successful candidate a positive and rewarding journey of growth. Through shared weekly and long-term planning, a large number of training days and access to the resources and opportunities in the Ark network, we are able to support our teachers to thrive.
How to apply:
Please click the apply button below and submit your application. Please note we will be reviewing applications on an on-going basis and this advert may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response. Early application is advised.
If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, we would be delighted to hear from you. To arrange a visit, an informal chat or for any queries, please contact our HR Officer, Salma on ksa.hr@kingsolomonacademy.org or phone 0207 563 6900.
To see more information about our school and current vacancies, please visit http://kingsolomonacademy.org/current-vacancies.
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About King Solomon Academy
King Solomon Academy is an all-through school for 3 - 18 year olds in Lisson Grove.
Pupils and their immense potential are at the heart of the academy. They live and work by the philosophy that there are no excuses and no short cuts to success, and promote excellence in every aspect of academy life.
Aims, Vision and Values
Our mission is to provide our pupils with a rigorous and transformational education which prepares them for success at university and beyond. We ensure that every pupil achieves academic success and has the real option of going to university. We want to make university education something which is accessible, exciting and aspirational. We believe our pupils work hard towards this goal because we make it real for them. We name our classes after well-known university cities and we name each year group by the year in which they will graduate from sixth form. We run residential trips to universities to open their eyes to the opportunties that university study can deliver.
In order to make our dreams for our pupils a reality, we foster values and approaches that transform the lives of our pupils. At the heart of our approach is that we are an all-through school with a thriving nursery provision. We believe in investing in knowing our pupils and their families extremely well, and we prioritise our pupils making extraordinary progress in the early years of their education. This sense of long-term commitment is core to our approach.
We have high expectations for all of our pupils, and believe that with great teaching and a lot of love and care, every child here can fulfil their potential.This both warm and strict approach means pupils feel safe and secure in the school but also confident to contribute to the future of the school and their community.
Long term, we aim to play our part in removing the educational disadvantage currently experienced by those born into economic deprivation our country. We strive to create role models and leaders in our community and through them to create a safer, fairer, and happier society.
Our vision
High expectations We are climbing the mountain to university
Excellent teaching We love teaching and learning and place it at the heart of all our work.
A rigorous and transformational curriculum Our all-through curriculum is carefully designed and implemented to ensure that our pupils have a journey from nursery to university
Exemplary Character Our focus on high quality relationships creates a powerful culture which ensures that our pupils develop exemplary behaviour and character.
A long-term commitment to every pupil As one of a handful of all-through schools with consistent cohorts of children across primary and secondary, we are able to develop a unique team and family orientated culture which ensures that each of our pupils and families are known and cared for as individuals.
Investment in our team We choose to work at KSA because we know we will work together to address educational inequality.
Efficient and effective organisation We carefully organise the operational and educational activities in our school to maximise our collective impact and make our work sustainable.
Specialisms
Like all Ark academies, King Solomon Academy has a maths specialism. Proficiency in maths is essential in every sphere of adult life, so we invest in the resources to attract and train the best maths teachers. We aim to produce confident and proficient mathematicians. We will ensure that pupils acquire skills as early as possible. We will help every student to maximise their skills and qualifications and offer those with particular ability the chance to accelerate their achievement in maths and further maths.
King Solomon Academy is a music specialist school. We chose music as a specialism because it is fun and inspiring and can involve every pupil. We believe that being part of the KSA orchestra will create a great sense of shared identity as well enabling our pupils to benefit from the known academic, intellectual and social advantages of musical training.
Ofsted
King Solomon Academy was inspected by Ofsted in May 2013 and was graded as "outstanding" in all areas. You can read the full report here.
Among the points highlighted by the Inspectors in the academy's first full inspection report since opening, they say:
“King Solomon Academy is an outstanding and unique 21st century school". Among many other points Ofsted praise KSA's creation and inspiration of "a community of enthusiastic learners, who are passionate about achieving academic excellence."
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