Lead Practitioner in English
South Shore Academy
Blackpool
- £47,414 - £53,640 per year
- Expiring soon
- Quick apply
- Salary:
- Leadership Pay Range
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 2 July 2024
Job overview
Are you a dedicated teacher who shares our vision of nurturing a community that upholds the values of faith, family, and excellence?
Our Academy is seeking passionate individuals to join our vibrant and traditional learning environment.
Our ‘South Shore Way’ -is an ethos and approach shared by all of our academies. These features exemplify what we believe excellent secondary education is and have been developed and distilled over time. Our approach has been influenced by renowned thinkers and experts such as Tom Bennett and Doug Lemov, and our Trust’s senior leaders have adapted and refined them to ensure our Secondary approach is appropriate, bespoke and relevant to our schools and their contexts.
As an integral member of our Trust, you will play a key role in laying the foundation for excellent education standards and creating a stimulating, purposeful environment for our students.
Our Mission & Values:
● Inspired by our Values, our trust is dedicated to nurturing a community that upholds the values of faith, family, and excellence.
● We embrace the concept of a supportive and inclusive family, where each member feels valued, respected, and cared for.
● We are committed to providing an exceptional educational experience, driven by a pursuit of excellence in all aspects of learning.
What We Offer:
● A culture that amplifies teaching and learning.
● Explicit teaching of learning habits with high expectations and support for all students to achieve.
● Disruption-free learning and 'High Expectations' centralised behaviour systems making behaviour the primary responsibility of leadership and allowing teachers to teach and students to learn.
● Highly visible senior leadership teams prioritising support for staff and students.
● Practice rooted in role-play, empowering all staff and reinforcing expectations.
● Emphasis on meaningful feedback over visible marking.
● Curriculum driven by academic rigour and powerful knowledge.
● A feedback policy focused on whole class feedback with no onerous marking policies.
● Simple and bureaucracy-free systems, allowing staff to focus on teaching.
● Time released for collaborative planning and intellectual Prep.
● Schemes of learning and fully a resourced curriculum for reduced daily planning.
● No formal graded lesson observations – ongoing 'no-stakes' coaching.
● Excellent ongoing CPD, career development, and promotion opportunities.
● Opportunity to complete NPQs.
● An unrivalled professional progression model.
What We Are Looking For:
● Highly effective teachers & leaders with excellent subject knowledge.
● Both teaching and support staff who do not make excuses for what children can achieve.
● Candidates who are totally aligned with our vision and values. If you are the type of person who fits with our culture, you will love working for our Trust.
Take Your Career in Your Own Direction:
We are committed to offering you diverse career progression, whether aspiring to senior leadership or becoming outstanding at what you do, allowing you to carve out a successful career with us. We are dedicated to offering opportunities to support your career in our schools or as part of our wider network.
For further details and application please visit South Shore Academy website https://www.southshoreacademy.bright-futures.co.uk/our-school/vacancies/current-vacancies/
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About South Shore Academy
South Shore Academy is a co-educational, 11-16 secondary school in Blackpool, Lancashire. It has around 900 pupils on its roll.
South Shore Academy was formerly Palatine Community Sports College, which was the beneficiary of a National Lottery grant that enabled it to make enormous improvements to its facilities. The school became an academy at the end of 2013, sponsored by the Bright Futures Educational Trust, a multi-academy sponsor based in the North West of England.
South Shore Academy was allocated a new school building through the Priority Schools Building Programme.
Head of School
Rebecca Warhurst
Values and vision
South Shore Academy is a strongly inclusive school that believes that all students can achieve well and have something to contribute to the school and wider community. It is committed to meeting the needs of all pupils, whether by providing extra support for learning or by adding additional challenges for higher ability students.
South Shore Academy offers a broad and personalised curriculum which, aside from promoting academic learning, is designed to develop the social skills of co-operation, independence and resilience. Beyond the classroom, the secondary school offers an extensive programme of enrichment.
Respect and responsibility lie at the heart of the school’s ethos. Pupils are expected to work with determination, aim to be the best in everything they do, never give up, and behave as part of the same family, “sticking together no matter what”.
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