Key Stage 3 Lead
Nishkam High School
Birmingham
- £38,282 - £42,804 per year
- New
- Salary:
- (40 hours and 41 weeks Pro Rata is £34,579.66 - £38,664.33)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 06/01/2025
- Apply by:
- 26 November 2024
Job overview
The role
The role of Key Stage 3 Lead will provide strong support to the Assistant Principal ensuring exemplary pastoral leadership across our lower school cohort (approx. 325 students). The Key Stage 3 Lead will play an important strategic role in leading initiatives to improve the attainment, attendance, and behaviour of students across the key stage year groups.Nishkam School Trust (NST) are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. We value diversity and wish to promote equality at all levels.
Our School is -
· Is faith-inspired and virtues-led. We aim for excellence in all that we do.
· Prioritises staff wellbeing in our decision making.
· Provides a wonderful working environment including access to the school gym and electric parking points.
· Encourages our staff to develop professionally.
We are seeking outstanding candidates who can realise the highest possible quality of pastoral leadership to support our educational vision. Your strong leadership of students and staff and ability to provide effective support to colleagues will enable the school to achieve the best possible outcomes for all of our students and foster students’ positive engagement in school life.
The pastoral team is at the very heart of our school, and it is a wonderful team to be a part of. If you want to make a real difference and are ready for a new challenge, then please get in touch using the contact details below.
The School
Nishkam High School is an OFSTED ‘Outstanding’, multi-faith school in north-west Birmingham, providing both a secondary school and a sixth form for boys and girls aged 11 – 19 years. Our school has a unique nature whereby we positively nurture pupils of all faiths and beliefs. We believe that a ‘faith-inspired, virtues led’ approach to education can achieve our vision of enabling children to excel academically and spiritually and thereby serve humanity well.
More than ‘Self’
Nishkam High School is driven and sustained by the principle of ‘nishkam’- creating a mind set to serve others without expectation or recognition. Experience suggests that this selfless practice promotes humility and unlocks great potential to transform ourselves and the world around us.
To apply:
- You need to complete an application form, which you can be found on our website www.nishkamschooltrust.org/about-us/vacancies
- Applications to be completed by midday on Tuesday 26th November 2024
- Successful applicants will be contacted the week after
- Interviews will be held on WB 2nd December 2024
- Please contact the school office if you would like to visit us. We would love to show you around our beautiful building and give you the opportunity to meet our staff and students.
Nishkam School Trust (NST) are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Any successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.
About Nishkam High School
- Nishkam High School
- Great King Street North, Birmingham
- West Midlands
- B19 2LF
- United Kingdom
Nishkam High School is a mixed, comprehensive, Sikh secondary school with sixth form and partnering nursery and primary schools, situated in north-west Birmingham. It is supported by The Nishkam School Trust, which also operates schools in West London, Wolverhampton and Kenya. A smaller than average secondary school, Nishkam High School provides 700 places for students aged 11-18 when fully subscribed.
The Nishkam School Trust has a 30-year history of educating children, working with the government for the past 10 years on schools for the Sikh community. Nishkam High School opened as a free school in September 2012.
Co-Principals
Mr Chris Deeks / Mrs Emma Wilks
Values and vision
Nishkam High School's values are summarised by both the school slogan, "excellence in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well", and the school name, with the word "nishkam" translating as "selflessness". The school emphasises the Sikh value of serving others and welcomes children of all faiths and none.
With a diverse curriculum including music and physical education, the secondary school also has a strong spiritual focus. Its ethos is based on 24 spiritual and moral dispositions on topics such as compassion and creativity. The school is about "more than academic excellence", is "more than a school" and encourages students to look after "more than self".
Ofsted report
“The school provides a rich education for students that include library lessons and opportunities for them to engage in public speaking, as well as providing an extended school day. Students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is promoted outstandingly well. The effectiveness of the sixth form is outstanding and students have courses tailored to their needs which enable them to develop their talents.”
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