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Company:Lady Eleanor Holles International School Foshan
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Location:Foshan
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Job function:Other
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Industry:Education
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Employment:Full time
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Experience:Mid-Senior level
About the company
Lady Eleanor Holles International School has been founded to provide students in Foshan and the rest of Guangdong province with the opportunity to experience a British curriculum, learning style and environment, combining high academic standards with a wide range of extra-curricular activities. The school will be a dynamic, inspirational and joyful learning community where boys and girls enjoy working in a creative and collaborative environment.
State of the art classroom and extra-curricular facilities, combined with carefully designed boarding facilities, will attract students from Foshan, Guangdong Province and Southern China. When full, Lady Eleanor Holles International School Foshan (LEHF) will educate 850 students from age 6 to 18.
The School, opened in September 2021, is a joint venture with Trumptech, a leading provider of education services in China and Hong Kong, and Lady Eleanor Holles School, one of England’s oldest and most successful girls’ schools.
Following the tradition of our sister school in the UK, LEHF is a place of opportunity, challenge and friendship; a place for students and staff to take risks and become bold; a place to discover passions and talents; a place that nurtures remarkable people. Our goal is that LEHF students become expert learners, unafraid to tackle new and challenging ideas, prepared to take risks, and able to learn from failure.
We encourage our students to:
· be exactly who they are, whatever their current interests or future aspirations.
· benefit from the warmth, respect, and support of the entire School community as they stretch themselves to become their best, most confident selves, as students, and as citizens of the world.
· have the freedom to experiment, express opinions, explore and take on new challenges.
· be supported by strong role models and inspired by their peers.
· find confidence and strength and, acquire and build the skills they need to succeed throughout their lives.
Job description
Job Description
The Head of Sixth Form will share responsibility for the day-to-day running of the Sixth Form, the academic progress and pastoral welfare of the Sixth Form students, recruitment of students into the Sixth Form and the operation of the Sixth Form centre.
The Head of Sixth Form will:
General Responsibilities:
• Enhance students'academic performance
• Ensure a high quality of pastoral care and student support in the Sixth Form
• To cultivate and develop self-review of the Sixth Form provision so as to ensure excellent standards of learning, progress and pastoral care
• To line manage the Sixth Form Tutors
• To oversee the writing of Sixth Form reports, provision of subject information to parents, parents'meetings and response to parents’ enquiries, ensuring that high standards are maintained
• To maintain effective discipline through implementation of the school's agreed procedures
• To maintain good order and discipline among the students and safeguard their health and safety both when they are on the school premises and when they are engaged in authorised school activities elsewhere
• Promote the Sixth Form to ensure retention of existing Year11 pupils and the recruitment of external applicants
• Support and manage the UCAS process
• Oversee and support the running of the Sixth Form area
• To implement the school’s agreed policies
• To promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young persons for whom you are responsible and with whom you come into contact
• To support and implement the Health and Safety policy and procedures of the school at all times
Specific responsibilities:
• To liaise with the Sixth Form Tutors to ensure that they monitor every students’ extracurricular commitments and,where necessary, advise on academically or pastorally appropriate adjustments
• To take overall responsibility, in conjunction with Sixth FormTutors for Sixth Form punctuality, appearance and disciplinary issues
• To encourage students to contribute positively to the life of the Sixth Form and the wider life of the school
• To develop and deliver a structured and purposeful tutorial programme leading onto careers advice and university searches
• To monitor and be accountable for Sixth Form attainment and effort grades
• To help write/check reports on all Sixth Formers and review reports with students and parents
• To liaise with parents, staff and other agencies to support students
• To help and oversee all aspects of reference writing and the administration of the UCAS process including results day and clearing advice
• To review post-16 examination results in August and at other times during the year
• To lead and develop the use of Sixth Form data
• To help deal with routine student absence, lateness and disciplinary matters
• To check/organise the private study arrangements for Sixth Form students
• To develop high-quality work experience and service opportunities for all students by engaging with the wider community
• To work with Year 11 tutors and students and to ensure the smooth transfer of students to the Sixth Form
• To assist and conduct individual interviews with Year 11students and parents after the mock IGCSE examinations in partnership with the Y11 tutors
• To develop and manage the Student Leadership Team and develop leadership in the Sixth Form
Skills & experience
Essential:
- A commitment to working collegially combined with the vision and courage to develop a school from the very beginning
- A strong academic background and a good degree in Education or other closely related subject
- A teaching qualification eg PGCE and QTS and at least 2 years’ experience post QTS
- Experience of teaching to a high level, including Advanced Level
- Excellent teaching, communication and interpersonal skills
- A commitment to personal professional development
- A willingness to participate in the programme of extracurricular activities, fixtures and trips
- Active support of the pastoral system, including pastoral tutoring and the boarding house system
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Active support of the ethos and aims of the school
- Committed to the safeguarding and well-being of children and young people
Desirable
- A proven track record of leadership
- International experience
- Experience teaching students whose first language is not English
- Contribution to staff professional development, leadership capacity and succession planning
Contact
Catta Chen
NO. 26 Jingping Road, Chancheng District, Foshan, Guangdong