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Principal Oasis Academy Arena a Oasis Academy Aren Principal Oasis Academy Arena a Oasis Academy Aren About the Academy Forecast admissions are encouraging; there has been over 330 in-borough Opened in September 2015, as part applications for Year 7 in 2016, which of London’s Olympic Legacy, Oasis Oasis far exceeds the 180 places. By 2019, Academy Arena is a new co-educational Oasis Academy Arena are anticipating a secondary school, dedicated to helping total of 900 students on roll, with post-16 Oasis was established in students reach their full potential. provision offered through the partnership 1985 and has now grown Situated in South Norwood, adjacent to with Oasis Academy Shirley Park. The the Croydon Arena Athletics track, the into a group of charities Oasis vision is to provide each and every Academy aims to deliver an innovative working to deliver housing, one of its students with an outstanding curriculum specialising in sports and training, youth work, health secondary education. It is vital, therefore, the sciences. The Academy is currently that not only is effective leadership care, family support and taking residency in part of the former in place, but there is an enriching primary, secondary and higher Oasis Academy Ryelands’ building, but curriculum to encourage both staff and will move to a beautiful new purpose-built education. In the UK we students alike to get the most out of their building in September 2016 with facilities employ around 4,000 staff as time at the Academy. Students will be that include a sports hall, hard and soft well as working with thousands offered the opportunities to experience outside play spaces, technology suites residential trips, visit workplaces and more volunteers. We also work and science laboratories, music facilities universities, engage in volunteering and in nine other countries around and access to the Arena site for outdoor develop their academic passions. Europe, Asia, Africa and North sports. There is currently a total of 116 students on roll, 58.3% of which are in America. The Academy has a strong working receipt of the Pupil Premium and 17.4% relationship with Oasis Academy Shirley of students are classified as DSEN. The Park and Louise Lee, who is currently new Academy will include a Designated the Acting Executive Principal of both Resource Provision for 15 students Academies, was fundamental in helping with a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Shirley Park achieve Outstanding in their Oasis Community Disorder. most recent Ofsted inspection. While the Learning appointed candidate will report directly Oasis Academy Arena’s mission is to to the Regional Academies Director, there create an environment where students will still be opportunities for collaboration Oasis Community Learning want to learn rather than have to with Oasis Academy Shirley Park and is an educational trust learn. The Oasis ethos of inclusion, to draw on the Academy’s experience equality, healthy relationships, hope established in 2004 with to emulate this success and ensure and perseverance is at the heart of the the express purpose of that Oasis Academy Arena becomes Academy and its employees, helping to transforming learning, lives a beacon of excellence within the bring this mission statement to life. The landscape of Croydon schools. and communities through Academy motto ’Higher, Faster, Stronger’ the development of Oasis is at the heart of its practice, aiming to Academies. Currently there help every student reach their potential are 47 Academies in the and strengthen their pathways towards Oasis family across primary, a future they dream of. With world-class sporting facilities on its doorstep, and secondary and post 16 state-of-the-art learning spaces in the phases. new building, there is excitement about the future of Oasis Academy Arena. Oasis Hubs Oasis subscribes to the widely held view that the factors that create disadvantages for children and young people need to be tackled in order to improve their life chances. The Oasis response is the creation of Oasis Hubs. Developing and running Hubs is all about delivering the purpose of Oasis. Its vision is for community, a place where everyone is included, making a contribution and reaching their God-given potential. To this end Oasis staff are committed to working in an inclusive, integrated, empowering and comprehensive way so that all people experience wholeness and fullness of life. They want to see local communities that are characterised by trust, safety, cohesion, mutual support, vibrancy, health and opportunity, and have increasing capacity to address their own issues. Oasis want those who are excluded brought back into community and to find wholeness and fullness within life. Oasis Academy Arena is part of the Oasis Hub Ashburton Park, which also includes Oasis Academy Ryelands and Oasis Academy Shirley Park. The Hub runs a variety of services for the community, including a foyer for homeless young people, a youth club and a community church. About the Role Oasis are seeking an inspirational, ambitious and motivated leader with the drive and commitment to realise the potential of this Academy. With your proven experience of leadership, attainment of targets and high standards you will ensure the Academy is thriving throughout. By delivering a broad and challenging curriculum, you will help to empower students to reach their goals. In your first 12-24 months in post your key priorities will be to: • Build strong links with local primary schools, and effectively market the Academy as a ‘school of choice’ so that it continues to be over-subscribed. • Ensure that the quality of teaching is good or better, and that this results in the accelerated progress of all year groups across the Academy. • Establish and maintain high standards of student discipline in order to ensure a positive climate for learning. • Recruit, develop, and retain high quality teaching, support, and operational staff who are able to deliver excellent education for the Academy’s students. • Ensure effective distributed leadership is in place at all levels to enable the Academy to move forward with demonstrable success that exceeds national standards. • Enable all students to have access to a broad and challenging curriculum which will enable them to realise their full potential and ensure they are well prepared for their next stage in learning. • Job Description Post: Principal Responsible to: Regional Academies Director Key Relationships: Oasis Community Learning Chief Executive Officer; Regional Academies Director; National Director of Monitoring Job purpose: and Standards; other Academy Principals; the The Principal will be accountable for the leadership, internal organisation, Academy Council and Oasis management and control of the Academy. It will be for him/her to lead the staff Community Learning Board of in realising the vision of establishing and developing a unique, extended learning Directors. community which will cater for the whole person - academically, vocationally, socially, morally, spiritually, physically, emotionally and environmentally. Location: The Principal will ensure that the Academy not only serves its students but also Oasis Academy Arena provides a learning hub for the whole community. It will also be vital for the Principal to ensure that the Oasis ethos of compassion and inclusion and the values that flow from it permeates every aspect of the Working Hours: Academy’s life. Full Time Key Responsibilities In seeking to realise the vision for the Academy, the Principal would be expected to carry out the following duties and to recognise that the list is only indicative and that there might be other, similar duties which he/she might be required to carry out. The Principal will be responsible for: making certain that adequate training and development opportunities are made available to all staff, and A. Strategy ensuring the recruitment and retention of high-caliber staff, as well as appropriate action where performance • Formulating the aims and objectives of the Academy is unsatisfactory. against the Purpose, Ethos and Values of the Academy, as well as the overarching Educational • Liaising as appropriate with all staff Unions or Principles, in accordance with the Oasis Philosophy of Associations. Education. • Ensure that all staff are annually appraised and that • Producing and implementing the Academy SEF and pay progression for teachers is appropriately managed, Academy Development Plan, setting strategic targets under pinned by a clear strategy for performance and performance indicators. related pay • Ensuring the Academy is a unique model of learning • Working with the National HR department to annually for the community by integrating adults and students in appraise leadership staff. line with the founding principles. C. Leadership of Students • Ensuring the Academy is an integral part of the hub and serves as a model of community transformation. • To ensure all students are in a safe, secure learning environment in accordance with Safeguarding • Leading and inspiring the staff by his/her example and expectation set out in the effectiveness of leadership encouraging them to achieve the highest personal and and management in the Common Inspection professional standards at all times. Framework and as stipulated in latest DfE guidance. Taking into account whole school strategies that B. Leadership of Staff promote awareness of the dangers of abuse, sexual exploitation, radicalisation and extremism. • Ensuring that the Academy is adequately and appropriately staffed, recruiting as
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