Overview
As a Curriculum Leader your role is to lead the strategic direction, design and delivery of the geography curriculum across the academy. The role requires subject expertise, a passion for teacher development and a deep commitment to King Solomon Academy’s mission: ensuring every pupil, regardless of their starting point, achieves academic excellence in geography and feels safe, happy and successful in Geography lessons.
Qualifications
- Experience of raising attainment in a leadership role in a challenging school
- Evidence of continually improving the teaching and learning of the subject through training and coaching staff
Benefits
We believe in aiming high, working together, being kind and leading the way. Through weekly individual coaching, year‑group intellectual preparation time and whole‑school PD, we invest in your growth and development as a teacher to ensure you can excel in creating the best possible climate for learning for our pupils to thrive in. Through our approach to professional development, we can promise a successful candidate a positive and rewarding journey of growth. Through shared weekly and long‑term planning, a large number of training days and access to the resources and opportunities in the Ark network, we are able to support our teachers to thrive.
We have a strong track‑record as a school in making a significant impact on our pupils’ lives. We adopt a mastery approach in primary, meaning that our pupils have more time and explicit teaching of the skills and concepts that underpin long‑term success in academics, enriched by a varied and cultural‑capital enhancing curriculum which inspires and engages our pupils. Our specialist teaching model allows pupils to benefit from expert teaching in PE, music, art, humanities and science and means all staff have time to plan each subject properly.
In September 2019 we merged with Ark Paddington Green Academy and combined to form one all‑through King Solomon Academy with Nursery‑Year 4 on our Younger Years Site (Crompton Street) and Year 5–Year 13 on the Older Years Site (Penfold Street). In May 2021 we opened a purpose‑built nursery for 2‑4 year olds. Our Younger Years Site has generous outdoor space, including a beautiful global food garden and a woodland garden where we run Forest School in EYFS and KS1. UKS2 pupils benefit from all the resources of sharing a site with secondary: a huge MUGA, basketball courts, science labs, specialist music equipment and so on.
We are a genuine all‑through school, with our pupils staying with us from nursery to sixth form across two sites, ten minutes‑walk apart. Because of this, we have a unique opportunity to have a long‑term and dramatic impact on our pupils’ lives. This all starts in our primary school, where our pupils develop, and grow a love of learning.
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.
