Teacher of L4L

About this role

About the Academy

This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity to be part of a team
delivering our Key Stage 3 competency-based curriculum at a brand-new academy,
with the potential to shape your career with us as the academy grows.
This role is suitable for both primary- and secondary-trained colleagues.

Shireland CBSO Academy is an exciting new school that opened to Year 7 in
September 2023 and is the first state school in the country to be established
in partnership with a professional orchestra. Based in Providence Place, West
Bromwich, the Academy works in partnership with the City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra (CBSO) and serves all of Sandwell and the wider West Midlands.
In 2024-25, we will have our first Year 8 cohort and we are also looking to
grow our Sixth Form.

Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust is a recognised leader in education
and was founded by three-times Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ Shireland Collegiate
Academy: Our students will study a full, broad and balanced curriculum, seen
through the lens of music. In Year 7, we follow the ‘Literacy for Life’ model
developed by our Trust over the last 15 years: Students learn via a thematic
approach to their studies, spending 17 hours a week with the same teacher,
enabling them to smoothly transition from primary to secondary school.
Students continue to study Literacy for Life for 13 hours in Year 8 and 5 hours
in Year 9. Each teacher is focused on the students in their Literacy for
Life class, not just from an academic perspective but also getting to know the students
and their families and forming a partnership which will really help students to
make progress.

Literacy for Life

Literacy for Life is a thematic
curriculum taught for 17 hours each week in Year 7, 13 hours in Year 8 and 5
hours in Year 9. Each teacher is focused
on the students in their Literacy for Life class, not just from an academic
perspective but also getting to know the students and their families and
forming a partnership which will really help students to make progress.

Our
Year 7 programme will be accommodated in a bespoke technologically rich, new
build environment.

We
are seeking inspirational teachers from either secondary or Upper Key Stage 2.

Applicants
will:

• Be
  passionate about improving the lives of students they serve
• Be
  confident in teaching across subjects
• Role
  model a commitment to excellence
• Be
  confident in using pedagogies for thematic/project-based learning
• Want
  to collaborate as part of a team
• Believe
  they have both a pastoral and academic responsibility
• Be
  flexible and adaptable, rising to the challenge of creating a new Academy
• Have
  high standards for students and themselves.