Principal - Slough, United Kingdom - Langley Hall Primary Academy

Langley Hall Primary Academy
Langley Hall Primary Academy
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Slough, United Kingdom

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We focus on preparing children for life and our School promise is for children to be happy at school and to leave us prepared for their next stage in life as confident independent learners, with high self-esteem and a sense of responsibility and tolerance in all they do.

Our supportive caring ethos nurtures the development of both children and staff.
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  • Monday to Friday _
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  • Term Time weeks paid holiday**_
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  • Across 2 sites within a mile of each other**_
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Role & Responsibilities /_
Key Accountabilities

1.
Creating the Future of the school
- working with the Executive Head, Senior Leadership team and governors to create the strategic vision for the trust
- motivate others to create a shared learning culture and positive climate through distribution of leadership through teams and individuals
- translate the vision into agreed objectives and operational plans
- use the trust structure to maximise and deploy both resources and expertise to raise achievement across the trust
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2.
Reading Teaching and Learning/outcomes and standards:

- _Working through others to: _
- ensure a continuous and consistent trust-wide focus on pupils' achievement, using data and benchmarks to monitor progress
- establish creative, responsive and effective approaches to learning and teaching
- set high expectations and set stretching targets for each school community
- monitor, evaluate and review school practice and promote improvement strategies
- tackle under-performance at all levels


3.
Developing Self and Working with Others
- ensure the development of, and maintain effective strategies and procedures for, staff induction, professional development and performance review
- promote and maintain a culture of high expectations for self and others
- ensure effective planning, allocation, support and evaluation of work of teams and individuals
- regularly review own practice, set personal targets and take responsibility for own development


4.
Managing the Organisation
- ensuring the ongoing development of an organisational structure which reflects the school's values and enables effective and efficient operations
- ensure evidence-based improvement plans and policies promote continuous school improvement
- effectively strategically manage the school's human, financial and physical resources
- recruit, retain and deploy staff appropriately


5.
Securing Accountability
- develop a trust ethos which enables everyone to work collaboratively
- ensure individual staff accountabilities are clearly defined, understood, agreed and recorded
- work with the governing body to enable it to meet its statutory responsibilities
- ensure every individual child has access to high quality teaching and learning


6.
Strengthening Community
- create and promote positive strategies for challenging racial and other prejudice
- ensure a range of community-based learning experiences
- collaborate with other agencies to ensure pupil and community needs are met
- use the trust to promote community cohesion and the trust framework to promote extended services and work with other partners.


Key Role

  • To work with the Executive Head and other staff in implementing the curriculum for Key Stage One and Key Stage Two.
  • To work with the Executive Head and other staff in ensuring the safety of all children, young people and vulnerable adults within the school. To complete the annual Safeguarding training and understand and comply with all Safeguarding policies and practices.
  • To identify staff training needs and prepare staff training programmes. Deliver staff training as appropriate.
  • To work with the staff to prepare and deliver parent training or information evenings.
  • To oversee the assessment and testing process, analysing pupil progress and working collaboratively with staff to provide for pupil needs including purchase of resources, changes to curriculum and staff training.
  • To champion the school's promise to deliver each child with an education that is remarkable imaginative and creative ensuring that any mediocre practices are challenged and school strategies, staff training, resources and methods of teaching do not restrict us to adopt the 'norm' but set 'new' trends and standards in education.
  • To champion the school's passion and development for the Arts.
  • To be part of the education visits committee and to organise the schools residential educational visit.
  • To work with the Executive Head to prompt updates to school policies and procedures and operational documents liaising with the policy and procedure coordinator to ensure that changes are made swiftly and effectively.
  • To engage with pupil groups as and when required usually leading a weekly act of worship.
  • To work closely with the Executive Head and other staff in updating the timetables each year liaising with all staff to ensure that they are fit for p
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