Year Leader (Year 7)

Crestwood Community School is one school with two campuses serving central Eastleigh. Our pastoral structure has 300 students per year, with 150 allocated to each campus. There is a Year Leader for each year group, who stays with their year group as they progress through the school, on each campus, taking charge of 150 students. There is a close liaison with the Year Leader on the other campus and a sharing of resources, such as assemblies. The challenge for the successful applicants will be to ensure effective communication between tutors, the Year Leader at the other campus, over cohort progress, assemblies and extra-curricular activities, and to manage pastoral support. The teaching allocation is 36 per fortnight out of 50 lessons. The Year Leaders are focused on pastoral care and progress. They are well supported by 4 Pastoral Support Workers across both campuses who are non-teaching and deal with the day-to-day enquiries from parents and staff. There is also a fabulous Inclusion Support Faculty that provides support for SEND students, parenting support, alternative provisions, mental health support and counselling services. In addition, we have an attendance team of 2 and an Education Welfare Leader who works with Year Leaders to support good attendance and punctuality in school. The PDL programme is centrally written to be delivered in tutor time. In short, you will be very well supported in this role. We operate a behaviour system via Arbor and this enables Year Leaders to monitor individuals and groups of students. Each Year Leader will undertake an assembly per week with their year groups to ensure pertinent and timely messages are disseminated; this is in addition to one whole school assembly each week. Each Year Leader will have a team of 5 tutors. Tutor time runs from 8.30am - 09.00am each day and consists of a taught behaviour curriculum and PDL/ Wellbeing programme, which needs to be monitored regularly for quality. In addition, Year Leaders will regularly review the progress that their students make in the curriculum and give feedback to SLT about trends and particular areas to address. Key aspects of the role include monitoring and analysing attendance and behaviour trends. Having a holistic view of the year group’s academic progress and challenging underperformance. A fundamental part of the role is developing good relationships with parents and outside agencies to support children in being able to be the best version of themselves at Crestwood. You will have a teaching specialism in one of the following subjects: English, Design and Technology, Languages (French and Spanish), PE, Maths, Drama, RE or PSHE. This post offers significant career development as you prepare for further promotion.