Crookhorn College Stakes Hill Road • Waterlooville • PO7 5UD www.crookhorn.hants.sch.uk HEADTEACHER INFORMATION PACK “The college has a real heart with a personal feel to it.” -Ofsted 2015 CONTENTS Page 3 Letter from the Chair of Governors Page 4 Our College Page 5 Management Team Structure Page 6 Overview of Exam Results Page 7 Finance Summary Page 8 Headteacher Advert Pages 9 - 12 Job Description Pages 13 - 17 Person Specification Page 18 Application Process LETTER FROM THE CHAIR OF GOVERNORS Dear Applicant Thank you for your interest in this important post. Following the decision of the present post holder, Mr. Grahame Sammons, to retire at the end of the school year, governors are seeking to appoint a well-qualified and experienced person to replace him. As you will gather from the accompanying information, Crookhorn College is a thriving secondary school with a considerable local reputation. As governors we are looking to appoint a headteacher with vision, significant qualities of leadership and effective management skills to take the school forward into the years ahead. The school has improving examination results and has recently had a very positive Ofsted inspection. There is also a strong pastoral ethos in the school and governors will wish to ensure this is maintained. Crookhorn College is set in attractive and well-maintained grounds. It is situated in a pleasant suburban environment in South-East Hampshire with easy access to both sea and countryside. There are excellent transport links in all directions. Within the pack you will find details on how to apply, together with the dates for the various stages of the selection programme. Please make sure that you respond as requested, as we have designed the process to make our review of all the evidence straightforward and easily assessable. Please note that we do not ask for your CV. Candidates who are shortlisted will receive more information about the school in order to help them prepare for the interview stage. A day for a visit to the school is included in the process. However, should you wish to make an earlier visit, you are welcome to do so, but please make an appointment beforehand. Applications will be assessed on professional competence and experience, communication skills, leadership and good personal relations with both staff and students. We hope you will be interested to apply and we look forward to hearing from you. Yours sincerely Gareth J Denby M.A. Chair of Governors Page 3 OUR COLLEGE Crookhorn is an 11-16 mixed comprehensive school with 701 students on roll. The college acquired Foundation status in June 2008. The Local Authority is Hampshire with headquarters in Winchester. There are forty nine teaching staff, four of whom are part-time and forty eight support staff. The senior management team comprises the Headteacher, a Deputy Headteacher, three Assistant Headteachers and a Bursar. Crookhorn students come from the local communities of Bedhampton, Purbrook and Waterlooville with the majority of youngsters being able to walk to college. Our main feeder schools are Berewood Primary, Mill Hill Primary, Queens Inclosure Primary and Springwood Junior. However there is an increasing number of students who come from other local primary schools. Our Primary Cluster is active and opportunities for collaborative work are keenly exploited. Crookhorn staff work in local primaries on mutually agreed projects and teaching programmes. The college organises several well established annual competitions for primary age pupils: the Maths Olympiad, and Press Gang for juniors and Professor Cranium for infants, as well as many bespoke after school learning programmes. We pride ourselves at Crookhorn as having a distinct ethos, the backbone of which is our engaging House system. There are four houses Arundel, Goodwood, Petworth and Romsey, each with eight mixed age tutor groups. The pastoral and welfare framework is house based and underpinned by the Four Cornerstones of Respect, Commitment, Responsibility and Achievement. There is a wide range of house activities and competitions, covering the whole curriculum. Many competitions are mixed age and are well established: Technohunt, ‘Pimp my…’ Houses have Talent, Linguachase are just a few. There are also competitive activities covering the traditional range of sports. Each House has its own charity some of which are local like Hannah’s Holiday Homes and other national charities such as Canine Partners for Independence. Within each House there is a range of student leadership roles comprising the traditional House and Sports Captain to Welfare Captains and Buddies. There are also whole college roles including Head Girl/Boy who lead the Student Council and a team of prefects. Students at key stage 3 follow a broad and balanced curriculum with a compensatory programme in English and mathematics for youngsters who arrive with low key stage 2 scores. At key stage 4 students study a core of English, mathematics, science, religious education, physical education and personal, social and health education and choose three extra subjects from a wide range of options covering languages, creative arts and humanities. Student progress is closely monitored using SISRA analytic which provides a comprehensive range of reports based on the four reports parents receive annually. These reports are reviewed at half termly meetings between subject leaders and members of the senior management team and action plans produced to address concerns. There are five parents’ evenings each year; these are open and not year based. Parents are expected to attend a minimum of one evening a year but can attend more should they wish. We also have three Student Progress Review days annually where students, tutors and parents meet to set targets for improvement. The Governing Body consists of eighteen Governors, representing the Local Authority, parents and staff as well as co-opted and partnership Governors. They sit on five committees – human resources, finance and estate, student development, student achievement and strategic planning and meet on a termly basis. This is an excellent opportunity to join a college that is passionate about learning and making the most of the potential in each and every student. Page 4 MANAGEMENT TEAM Line Management Structure Headteacher Grahame Sammons Deputy Headteacher Assistant Headteacher Assistant Headteacher Assistant Headteacher Bursar Standards Assessment & Key Stage 3 CPD & Key Stage 4 Pastoral Care & Inclusion Finance & Estate Sarah Bennett James Collins Christopher Potts Christopher King Lorraine Tuff Pastoral & Inclusion Finance & Estate Academic Structure Structure Structure Head of Languages Faculty Head of Mathematics Faculty Head of Technology Faculty Head of Arundel House Site Manager Deborah Clarke Sean O’Sullivan Steve Edington Steve Smith Wendy Appleton Deputy Head of Deputy Head of Assistant Head of Head of English Faculty Personnel Manager Mathematics Technology Arundel House Timothy Bezant Deborah Dubb Calvin Easter Stuart Woodhall Michaela Bishop Deputy Head of English Numeracy Coordinator Head of Creative Arts Faculty Head of Goodwood House Finance Assistant Sarah Burn Elizabeth Walmsley Adam Brunink David Lemon Rhona Honey CoordinatorCoordinator ofof CareersCareers Assistant Head of Head of Science Faculty Music Coordinator & PSHE Goodwood House Emma Rex David Jones Sally Duncan Jessica Manley ExaminationsExaminations & Data Drama Coordinator Deputy Head of Science Head of Petworth House & DataManager Manager Helen Callahan Sean Russell Gary Holman Gregory Sammons (From April 2016) Assistant Head of Head of Humanities Faculty Key Stage 4 Pathways Petworth House Richard Hunt Programme Caroline Sellers Jo Poulter Deputy Head of Lead Practitioners Head of Romsey House Humanities Mark Kehoe, Mitesh Patel Matthew Carver Samuel McGinley & Candice Affleck Assistant Head of Head of Geography Romsey House Barbara Edington Natasha White Head of P.E. Faculty Head of Student Support Christopher Watson Tracey McCaw SENCOs Nicola Smith & Natalie Hope Page 5 OVERVIEW OF EXAM RESULTS AUGUST 2015 EXAM RESULTS 2014 2015 Average APS 25.32 26.89 5 GCSE A*-C including English and mathematics 52% 55% Progress 8 0 0.12 EBacc 25% 26% A*-C in English 62% 60% A*-C in mathematics 67% 71% 3LOP in English 75% 73% 3LOP in mathematics 72% 76% 4LOP in English 32% 25% 4LOP in mathematics 20% 30% Capped 8+ EM VA added 997 1011 •Crookhorn has achieved a three year upward trend of 5 •FSM have achieved a 12% decrease in the gap from 32% in GCSEs including English and mathematics (43% to 55%). This 2013 to 20% in 2015. represents a 12% increase from 2013. Girls have achieved an upward trend for this measure of 13% from 43% to 56%, with •The prior attainment (APS) of Cohort 10 was 26.9 which was boys achieving an upward trend for this measure from 43% -0.7 below the national average. 21% of this Cohort were in to 55%, which is a 12% rise from 2013. the low ability band compared to 16% nationally. 25% were in the high ability band compared to 35% nationally. •Students achieved 60% in English, just 5% below the national average in English for A*-C and mathematics achieved 70% •Cohort 10 exceeded headline targets for A*-A with 19% of which is 7% above national average, with a below average our students gaining 3 A*-A grades with a 2% increase from cohort. Crookhorn gained 26% in EBacc results compared to 2013. Our high ability students achieved 59% 3A*-A and 31% 23% nationally (2014), which was an increase of 18% from gained 5A*-A.