ABOUT US

Ark Victoria Academy provides pupils with an excellent education through an ambitious curriculum, personal development and character programme, and an extensive student experience and extra-curricular offer. Although we are a large school, we are able to retain a family feel, to nurture our pupils through their schooling and ensure that they flourish and leave us with the skills and qualifications necessary to continue their journey of life-long learning in a university or career of their choice.
Our school values and virtue pathways are crucial to our culture and ethos, they are also part of the way we work and learn together and have been instrumental to us on our school improvement journey. Our values of Ambition, Resilience and Kindness permeate our curriculum, our culture, school and our learning community.
It is for these reasons that Ark Victoria Academy was judged to be significantly improved in all areas from the 2019 ‘Good’ inspection, by Ofsted, in October 2024: ‘This is a school which lives out its values in full for the benefit of children in Nursery to the pupils in Year 11…pupils thrive at all stages of Ark Victoria Academy…as the school knows its pupils very well, they are very well supported to engage with the school’s ambitious curriculum’. The full report (September 2024) can be found here: https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50262921
We prioritise staff development with a strong emphasis on securing expert subject knowledge from our teachers, strong teaching and leadership and a focus on excellence for our pupils and staff.
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ABOUT THE ROLE:

We are seeking an innovative Digital Learning Lead and Teacher of Computer Science to join our Computing Department in our secondary phase.
You will oversee the whole school vision for digital literacy across both secondary and primary and ensure the implementation of a successful and innovative programme. You will quality assure the teaching of IT skills across the curriculum and ensure a high quality e-safety programme. You will oversee the use of online platforms across the school including Microsoft Teams, Century Tech, SPArk and Seneca and our remote teaching and learning policy and practices.
You will be responsible for staff IT skills training and will liaise with the operational IT department to ensure joined up thinking across the school. You will regularly monitor and analyse whole school patterns of device and learning app usage so pupils do not go without. You will work closely with Senior Leaders to lead on whole school strategy.
You will be a fantastic motivator and will inspire students to achieve and exceed grades. You will be aligned to Ark’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff and have demonstrable evidence of improving outcomes.
Our values mean a great deal to us and underpin all that we do, and so it is important that you champion Ark Victoria’s pledge of being Ambitious, Resilient and Kind as well as living by the Ark ethos and six pillars that enable us to achieve our mission.

The successful candidate will:

• be instrumental in our mission to provide every student a great education and real choices in life, regardless of their background
• be experienced in designing, implementing and evaluating effective, imaginative and stimulating Schemes of Work
• have an excellent understanding of both subject and general teaching pedagogy