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Are you a consistently outstanding teacher with high expectations of achievement and behaviour?
Are you ready for the next stage in your career, leading forward thinking staff in improving teaching and learning and the development of an exciting new curriculum to engage and excite all learners?
Would you like to work in a school with a friendly, close community atmosphere, where children are polite and well mannered and all staff have access to the newest thinking in education, first class CPD and staff personal benefits?
Westerings Primary Academy based in Hockley, Essex, has approximately 202 children on role from aged 4 to 11. The academy has a beautiful, extensive setting adjacent to Hockley woods with split level grounds, two playgrounds, woodlands and grass areas. There are spacious classrooms and a wide range of areas that may be used during lunchtimes. As a member of the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET), Westering's pupils and staff benefit from being part of this dynamic, national education enterprise. After a 'good' in all areas grading from Ofsted in 2012, Westerings is continuing its rapid improvement to become an outstanding provider with a range of new initiatives and exciting opportunities for staff and children.
We are looking for an innovative and dynamic Assistant Principal to challenge and inspire staff and children, helping to lead the academy to become outstanding. You will lead the development of an exciting new curriculum as well as assisting the Principal and Vice Principal in increasing outstanding learning and teaching throughout the school. This is a new post and an exciting opportunity for developing leadership skills.

The successful candidate will: be a proven exemplary classroom practitioner, with high expectations of themselves and others, demonstrate effective behaviour management strategies have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, have a commitment and passion for raising standards for all children, be open to new challenges and new initiatives.

You will be predominantly class based and will have dedicated leadership time to support the Principal and Vice Principal in leading the academy.

Visits to the academy are warmly welcomed. To arrange, please contact us admin@westeringsprimaryacademy.org

This position is required September 2014 and interviews are scheduled to take place on 06 May 2014.

Closing date: 28 April 2014.

For further information on this position and to make an application please visit: https://www.hirewire.co.uk/SG/1058184/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=51036&Preview=1
Each of the academies within the AET is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts.
Come and visit us at our Recruitment Event -In collaboration with theAETNational Teaching School Alliance and EssexITTPartnership where you will be able to meet leaders and teachers from our Academies based in Essex, Suffolk and Kent.
Monday 28 April 2014,6pm-8pm AET Education Centre, National Teaching School Alliance, Conrad Road, Witham, Essex, CM8 2SD
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Information about the School

Westerings Primary Academy is an incredibly popular and successful school with pupils from age 4 to 11. Nestled in the beautiful woodland setting in Hockley, our children experience a learning environment second-to-none! The extensive grounds allow for a range of outdoor facilities to enrich their learning. Children may be seen working collaboratively in ‘Imagination Cove’, hunting for bugs in the ‘Wildlife Walk’, movie-making with the iPads in the ‘Wild West’ (woodland!) or enjoying their playtimes in our pirate-themed Adventure Golf course! We also have an outside amphitheatre built into the hillside, a dedicated gardening area, three adventure playgrounds, tyre park - there are countless places for children to work and play! Inside the school, our classrooms and learning spaces are themed to match pupils’ topics. Whether walking through Diagon Alley to reach year four, or an ancient Egyptian tomb to enter Year 3, our children love coming to school to learn in such an engaging environment!

Being part of Academies Enterprise Trust we are able to access the newest thinking in education and high quality professional support to help us prepare our children to be happy, well-rounded and successful citizens of the future. We do have high expectations for academic success but also for personal development. Our children are exceptionally well mannered, smart, happy and very keen to learn!

We work closely with the other academies and schools in Rayleigh, Hullbridge and Hockley as well as our Trust. Our staff are well-supported in their CPD and wellbeing, with access 400+ high-quality courses (including apprenticeships and NPQs), a great private health-care plan, a staff-led marking and feedback policy, a rewarding employee scheme in partnership with ‘Vivup’ and two-week October and May half-term breaks. Staff retention is high at Westerings, and we know our pupils, environment, employee benefits and school ethos are key to this success.

We look forward to welcoming you to Westerings - we know you’ll be keen to look around and see the school for yourself!

Adam Stainsbury, Headteacher

www.westerings.org (main website) and www.westerings.com (curriculum site) @westeringsAET (YouTube/Threads)

Vision and Ethos

We are a very morally driven academy where we follow the newest thinking in education to ensure our children and staff receive the highest quality provision. We are an academy that actively encourages new thinking and fresh approaches. Foremost in our thoughts, we are aware that we provide a service to families, our local community and to the wider society including the business world, to help educate our children so they become global citizens in an ever-changing and increasingly digitalised world. We want to equip our children with the skills and attitudes to succeed in their future careers and personal lives, and yet retain the highest moral values.

We believe that an individual’s intelligence is expandable, not fixed. Success comes from learning, practice and effort. We want to help our children to have a ‘Growth Mindset’, i.e, to:

Embrace challenges
Persist despite struggling or coming across obstacles
See effort and hard work as a way to improve
Appreciate and learn from feedback, including constructive criticism

We want the best for each of our children and strive to prepare them well to succeed in every aspect of their future lives. Every Child really does Matter.

Ofsted

To view our Ofsted reports please click here.

Staff Benefits

Development:

We are committed to developing all staff at all levels through high quality development opportunities, resources, and experiences that will support you on your professional learning journey with AET.

Lifestyle:

We champion agile/flexible working across the Trust to help our people achieve an optimal work/life balance.

Money:

All staff have access to our pension schemes (Local Government Pension Scheme and Teachers’ Pension Scheme). Everyone has free access to financial advice & support and can access a wide range of retail discounts through our AET Benefits scheme. We also offer Technology Loans to help with any big digital purchases.

Wellbeing:

We recognise that mental wellbeing is just as important as physical and have set up employee assistance programmes which offer free and confidential counselling 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our employees can access our health cash scheme from BHSF.

OUR TRUST

We are proud to be part of Academies Enterprise Trust (AET).

AET is a national family of 57 schools committed to delivering an excellent education that launches all the children in our care into a remarkable life. It is our deeply held belief that every child has something remarkable to offer and we see it as our duty to help each and every child find this within themselves.

Equality, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

At AET, we want all of our employees to feel included bringing their passion, creativity and individuality to work. We value all cultures, backgrounds and experiences, and we truly believe that diversity drives innovation.

AET is also an approved Apprenticeship Training Provider (through the ESFA) which allows us to deliver a wide range of apprenticeship programmes across the Trust and our school network. To find out more about what we offer click here.

We also offer teacher training programmes across our network. For more information please click here.

To find out more about AET please click here.

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.