Headteacher

Ethics and Professional Conduct

To maintain high standards of ethics and behaviour and develop a culture of staff professionalism. To promote effective relationships with all pupils, staff, governors, parents, other schools, the local community, the local authority and other external bodies to enhance the positive image of the school and the development of the education system as a whole.

School Culture and Ethos

To treat everyone fairly and equitably, with dignity and respect, so as to create and maintain a shared school culture and positive climate which motivates pupils, staff and all other members of the school community. To nurture success in all children and staff. To create a culture of high expectations and aspirations that lead to an excellent education for all pupils. To demonstrate an uncompromising drive for excellence in all aspects of the school’s life so that all pupils achieve the highest levels of learning and personal development. Working with all stakeholders, including York Diocese, to create a vision for the school that provides direction for all aspects of the life of the school. To ensure that parents, pupils, staff and governors are committed to the school’s vision of excellence. Establish effective curriculum leadership, developing subject leaders with high levels of relevant expertise with access to networks and communities. To establish a positive ethos throughout the school so that pupils take pride in their school, their work and their behaviour. To provide support, professional development, guidance and challenge to all staff, embracing opportunities to engage critically with educational research in order to provide the very best for all pupils. To ensure that staff have access to high-quality professional development opportunities that align to individual needs and that of the whole school development planning process.

Leadership and Management

To be responsible for the day-to-day management, organisation and administration of the school, modelling effective work-life balance and managing the workload of others. To ensure the rigorous implementation of well-focused improvement plans, based on robust self-evaluation. To monitor and evaluate standards of teaching, learning, resource usage and management effectiveness and implement appropriate strategies for change. To lead and manage change effectively. To work with the governing body to enable it to meet its responsibilities and present to it, on a regular basis, an accurate account of the school’s performance. To establish and maintain the policies and procedures that ensure the safety of all pupils, staff members and visitors to the site. To ensure that the school fulfils all statutory duties, including those relating and not limited to attendance, safeguarding, finances, sustainability, curriculum, equality and health and safety.

Curriculum, Teaching and Assessment

To ensure that statutory requirements for the curriculum are met, that curriculum provision is appropriate and relevant to the needs of all pupils and provides equal opportunity for all. To ensure that the curriculum is ambitious, promotes and sustains a thirst for knowledge and understanding and a love of learning. To ensure that excellent teaching within a broad and balanced curriculum, accompanied by effective provision for spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, assists all pupils to prepare for life in modern Britain. To understand what good and outstanding teaching and learning looks like and to be able to communicate this effectively to all staff and governors. To ensure that assessment is appropriate and proportionate, and that assessment information is used effectively by leaders and governors to improve teaching and the curriculum. To ensure that parents and carers are regularly provided with sufficient information to understand how well their children are doing and what they can do to help improve learning.

Behaviour

To be responsible for establishing and maintaining the processes and policy that secure the safeguarding and welfare of every child. To maintain a culture where respect for others and courtesy are the norm.

Church school

To confidently articulate, live out and promote a vision for the school rooted in distinctively Christian values. To articulate a Christian vision that impacts positively upon standards of achievement, the distinctively Christian character of the school and the well-being of the whole school community. To work closely with the local Churches and the Diocese to promote an understanding of the Christian faith and respect for other faiths and cultures.