Curriculum Innovator for English

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the position of Curriculum Innovator for English at Beacon Hill Academy. This post will form part of a team with the purpose of continuing to raise standards of teaching and learning across the Trust. This will be through exemplary personal practice and modelling the use of contemporary teaching methods. Curriculum innovators will remain as members of their Academy English departments reporting to their CTL on a day-to-day basis. When working across the Trust, Curriculum Innovators will be directed by the Lead Director. The post holder will interact on a professional level with colleagues to seek to establish and maintain productive relationships to promote a mutual understanding of learners’ progress. Beacon Hill is located in Woodsetton to the east of Sedgley. It is the largest of the academies in the Trust with over 1,100 learners on roll. It recruits at capacity in Year 7 and draws pupils from a large number of different primary schools in a highly populated area. Since 2019, GCSE results have shown improvements in both the attainment and progress of learners. There has been a marked rise in the proportion of learners achieving Grade 5 or higher in both English and Mathematics. One of the advantages of its size is the number of staff who work in learner support and the broad pastoral care system. The academy has its own AS Base, with trained staff on hand to provide the extra support and care that AS learners may require. There is a comprehensive programme of extra-curricular activities ranging from sports and the arts to valuable enrichment experiences that have included visits to Oxbridge Universities, skiing trips to Italy, and visits to the WWI battlefields, China and Silicon Valley. As a Trust we are highly centralised, which means that all of our systems and processes are aligned. Everything we do is developed collaboratively involving many professionals and experts who work together across the Trust, all striving to