Year Manager
Kettlethorpe High School
Wakefield
- £28,419.84 - £30,552.95 per year
- New
- Salary:
- £28,419.84 – £30,552.95 actual (Grade 7)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 10 January 2025
Job overview
Kettlethorpe High School is the last local authority-maintained high school in Wakefield. We’re also the first when it comes to innovation, as we want to deliver a 21st-century education where imaginative teaching creates synergy alongside cutting-edge technology. That is why we are putting a brand-new team together under an ambitious, visionary new Headteacher. It is also why we want you to be part of our pastoral team as a Year Manager.
In this exciting post, you will work with the senior manager of the relevant Key Stage to ensure pupils (for one academic year group) enjoy learning, engage in school life, and experience success. You will take a lead role in addressing the needs of those pupils and providing care and pastoral support to enable pupils to access all teaching and learning and make strong academic progress and sound personal development.
As Year Manager, you will track all aspects of pupils’ progress in school, from learning and extracurricular activity to attendance, punctuality, and behaviour.
You will take the lead on behaviour management strategies, developing and implementing effective student behaviour plans to maximise learning whilst ensuring the safety and emotional wellbeing of the young people.
A visible presence in school, you will require excellent communication skills with the ability to build and maintain positive relationships with both students and parents alike.
The responsibilities of this role include:
- Taking the lead on effective behaviour management strategies
- Monitoring behavioural, emotional and social issues within all groups
- Working directly with students to address barriers to learning, including behaviour, attendance, and welfare
- Giving clear guidance and strategies to the education/teaching team to help minimise poor behaviour during lessons
- Working closely with the Designated Safeguarding Officer
Hours: 37 hours per week, term time only + Inset days + 2 weeks.
Closing date: Noon on Friday 10 January 2025.
The successful applicant will be required to provide criminal conviction information and complete a disclosure application form.
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About Kettlethorpe High School
- Kettlethorpe High School
- Kettlethorpe Hall Drive, Standbridge Lane, Sandal, Wakefield
- West Yorkshire
- WF2 7EL
- United Kingdom
About Kettlethorpe High School
Kettlethorpe High School is a large comprehensive school in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. We have 1,700 pupils aged 11–16 and often see year group entries of between 330 to 360 pupils.
The school opened in 1965, and we have benefitted from considerable capital building improvements over the years. Recently, the school has had a new MFL block and sports studio built and also financed our own all-weather 3G pitch for school and community use.
Pupils benefit from a rich and broad curriculum offer. At Key Stage 4, our English Baccalaureate entry and actual figures are the very best in Wakefield. In 2021, the entry was 79% with 61% achieving passes across the EBacc suite of subjects. At this school, pupils succeed and do well. Progression rates are impressive.
Across the school, the wider life of the school and extra-curricular offer is second to none. Pupils and staff engage with a rich extra-curricular offer and we are very proud of our sports, arts and performing arts offer. It adds a real richness to our school community.
Our pupils are great and have lots to say about their school. They support and represent their community well. Over the last 9 years, they have raised over £103,000 for Children in Need. Most years, they raise between £10,000 and £15,000 for CiN and other charities.
Teachers at the school work hard to support all our pupils. They are proud of their successes and involvement with the school.
As a school community, we recognise that schools are more than just Ofsted judgements. We do what we do to benefit our pupil community first and foremost. That said, we are more than a ‘good’ school and valued the comment made by one lead inspector… ‘There is something very special going on at this school.’ We agree!
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