Head of Year - Cottenham, United Kingdom - Astrea Academy Trust

Astrea Academy Trust

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Cottenham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Do you want to be part of a team where you will help make a lasting impact on our students and rapidly accelerate their progress?

Do you want to work in a school where you are free to teach, with impeccable student behaviour and unhindered by bureaucracy?

Cottenham Village College is seeking to appoint a full time Head of Year to join a successful and thriving pastoral team to lead a year group.

We are looking for someone who can lead a year group and further develop the role and contribution of supporting student progress and managing student welfare and behaviour.

We are committed to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour and culture.

We believe that schools must teach powerful knowledge, _'the best that has been thought and said'_ _and an '_entitlement curriculum'_ for all.

We believe in explicit instruction and have been greatly influenced by Lemov's 'Teach Like A Champion', Rosenshine and recent developments in cognitive science.

We believe that the creation of a scholarly culture that is warm and strict, disciplined and joyful, where there is 'purpose not power', ensuring impeccable behaviour, where teachers can focus on teaching and pupils can focus on learning, underpins everything.

We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive and lead successful lives.

We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs.

We want to ensure that all our students have the option to be able to go to university or aspirational alternative.

We are not going to reduce expectations because of a child's background or home life, or because they are new to English or have a special education need.

In fact, the opposite is true. It is our job to redouble our efforts to help children overcome these barriers so that they can flourish.

We value our staff highly and treat workload very seriously. Our systems are high leverage, ensuring you can really focus on your core purpose - teaching, in a sustainable way, unhindered by bureaucracy or poor behaviour.

What we offer:

Huge support and progression opportunities
Collaborative planning with centralised, shared units of work and resources
A feedback policy focused on whole class feedback no onerous marking policies
Disruptionfree learning
Highly visible/supportive senior leaders who will support you
Centralised detentions, including homework detentions
No formal graded lesson observations just ongoing 'nostakes' feedback cycles to develop our practice
Excellent ongoing CPD, career development and promotion opportunities across the Astrea Cambridgeshire region
Opportunity to complete NPQs
An unrivalled professional progression model
A very pleasant location in beautiful Cambridgeshire.

What we are looking for:

A highly effective teacher
Aligned to our values and mission. If you are the type of person who fits with our culture, you will love working here
Someone who passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter what their starting point, background or needs. Someone that does not make excuses for what children can achieve.

Interested in applying?

If this is something you are interested in, looking for a new challenge, have a passion for education or maybe all of the above, take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more about the role and how to apply.

We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our academy to appreciate fully our excellent learning environment.