Assistant Principal

JOIN OUR MISSION TO BE ONE OFTHE BEST SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTRY!

Ernulf Academy is building a teamof exceptional and highly skilled staff, committed to driving excellence and continuous improvement across our school. Last year, we improved outcomes byover 10% across multiple measures, and our ambition is to build on this success again this year.

As an Assistant Principal, youwill play a pivotal role in shaping the strategic direction of the academy, ensuring the highest standards of teaching, learning, behaviour and personal development. Working closely with the Principal and senior leadership team, youwill help drive a culture of excellence, high expectations and continuous improvement, ensuring every scholar has the opportunity to achieve their full potential.

You will be a highly effective and reflective leader, capable of inspiring staff, supporting colleagues and delivering sustainable improvement. Through strong leadership, strategic planning and a relentless focus on outcomes, you will help create an environment where scholars thrive academically, socially and personally.

This role is ideal for an ambitious and resilient leader who upholds the highest professional standards,models Astrea values and is driven to deliver life-changing opportunities foryoung people. You will be passionate about raising aspirations, improving outcomes and helping Ernulf Academy achieve its vision of becoming one of thebest schools in the country.

• Drive whole-school improvement and strategic priorities
  Lead and implement key academy improvement priorities, ensuring ambitious targets are achieved and sustained across your areas of responsibility.
• Champion high-quality teaching and learning
  Support the development of outstanding classroom practice through coaching,monitoring, professional development and effective use of evidence-informed approaches.
• Promote exceptional behaviour and culture
  Lead the implementation of the academy's behaviour systems and routines,ensuring high standards of conduct, attendance and scholar engagement.
• Raise achievement and improve outcomes
  Use performance data effectively to identify priorities, monitor impact and implement strategies that accelerate progress for all scholars.
• Lead and develop staff effectively
  Build leadership capacity across the academy through coaching, mentoring and fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to the wider leadership of the academy
  Provide visible and proactive leadership across the school, supporting academy operations, safeguarding, stakeholder engagement and the delivery of the academy's vision and values.

Champion high-quality teaching and learning
Support the development of outstanding classroom practice through coaching,monitoring, professional development and effective use of evidence-informed approaches.

This is a fantastic time to join TEAMERNULF on our turnaround journey. We are on a RAPID MISSION to turnour school into one of the BEST in the country! When the current leadership took over, in September 2024, Ernulf had NEVER received an Ofsted 'Good' in ANY category. In January 2025, after just one term,Ofsted rated us 'Good' in ALL categories. If our rapid improvement and ambition EXCITE you, then join us to disrupt disadvantage by transforming the education of our pupils.

We are within an hour's commute of North London, Norfolk, Grantham and Rugby.

Team Ernulf don't believe in fads.

We know the biggest factor in a child's achievement is how hard they work. Thatis why we have sky high expectations. We have simple rules,
centralised detentions
, and we back our teachers - so that our classrooms are disruption-free
. Wedo this to support our children who want to work hard and do well.

Team Ernulf is WWF
:warm, welcoming, and friendly. We pride ourselves on having a family atmosphere.

We teach our pupils empathy and respect and have zero tolerance to bullying. Ascholarly approach is at our core, but teaching pupils to be polite,considerate, and caring is just as important.

Our world-class enrichmentprogramme takes learning beyond the classroom. In Autumn term 2024alone, children visited Cambridge University, The British Museum, The National Gallery, RAF Hendon, Kenilworth Castle, and were on Channel 5 and BBC radio!!

As well as this, every week KS3 children have the opportunity to take partin electives such as British sign language, clubbercise,building a robotic arm, chess,…