Dear Applicant

“Welcome to the best 11-18 School in the Country”

Firstly, I would like to thank you for visiting our site. We hope that if you are looking for your first teaching experience, relocating to the area or want to work for an “Outstanding School”, this site will provide you with as much information about our vision and determination to build upon our success.

In 2002, we moved into an amazing new campus as part of the PFI initiative and continue to invest in high quality facilities; the latest project being a multi-million pound Sixth Form Centre opened in September 2008.

The Academy offers successful candidates an exceptional opportunity to work in a strong, highly motivated, supportive and forward thinking team environment where the challenge is to continue providing “Outstanding” efforts to our pupils and cement our reputation as the “Best 11-18 School in the country”.

We are an unashamedly ambitious academy which aims to support and encourage pupils to enjoy learning and attain ever higher standards of achievement through high quality inspirational teaching. If successful in your application, you should expect

An “Outstanding” teaching environment in which to work
Pleasant, friendly and rewarding environment to work
Supportive colleagues and a team which takes your professional development seriously
Excellent resources
The opportunities only a large 11-18 school can offer in terms of the range of courses and assessments and enrichment activities
On-going CPD

In return we expect you to:

Strive to be an excellent classroom practitioner with high expectations of students’ learning and behaviour
Contribute to the team by having the ability to lead, motivate and support colleagues
Have lots of energy, enthusiasm and a sense of humour
Be creative and enjoy motivating students and helping them achieve things they may not have thought possible

We recommend that you look through our online prospectus and most recent Ofsted report which we are extremely proud of scoring “Outstanding” throughout.

Please visit our “Teaching Vacancies” page for our current vacancies. Thank you again for your interest in our academy. If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely

Mr George A Croxford
Headteacher