Pool Academy
Cornwall
£32,916 - £51,048 per year
Salary:
MPS / UPS
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
01 January 2026
Apply by:
13 October 2025
Job overview
Join Athena - Inspiring World-Class Education Together
At Athena, we are a passionate and forward-looking educational organisation committed to providing worldclass education and helping individuals lead great lives. Our core values of "dream big, take responsibility, and be kind" guide our mission to create a supportive and inclusive learning environment where everyone can excel and grow.
At Athena, we believe in the power of education to transform lives and shape a brighter future. We are dedicated to fostering a strong sense of community, where students, educators, and parents collaborate to achieve academic excellence and personal growth. Our commitment to "dream big, take responsibility, and be kind" underpins everything we do, inspiring our students to aim high, take ownership of their learning, and treat each other with respect and compassion.
We are inspired by wisdom, creativity and learning. Determined to create a world where all children get to go to great schools, our mission is to provide the knowledge and education to bring opportunities, choices and freedom.
If you want to be part of an inspirational team of big thinkers who will support you to develop your full potential and value your knowledge, passion, wellbeing and commitment, it sounds like you could be on your way to joining us and becoming an Athenian.
As an Athena Teacher, you will be responsible for delivering world class education to our students. You will be accountable for creating a holistic learning environment that maximises learning opportunities. You will create a disruption free environment that focuses on learning outcomes that inspire our students to succeed and strive to lead great lives.
Our Commitment to you
We recognise that all of our people have a role to play in ensuring our students have access to worldclass education and so each one is valued. We are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive work environment that promotes both personal and professional growth. We put staff wellbeing first and here are some of the benefits and perks you can enjoy as a member of our team:
Impact: positive outcomes for our students
Leaders: we see everyone as a school leader
Wellbeing: ensuring your time off is for you
Generous pension: the local government pension scheme
Employee Wellbeing Initiatives: support your physical, mental, and emotional health
Benefits: Enjoy access to various discounts, benefits, and rewards to enhance your lifestyle.
Join us on this journey to inspire greatness in ourselves and others. Together, we can create a brighter future and make a lasting difference in the lives of our students and the communities we serve.
Role Summary
As an Athena Teacher, you will be responsible for delivering world class education to our students. You will be accountable for creating a holistic learning
environment that maximises learning opportunities. You will create a disruption free environment that focuses on learning outcomes that inspire our students to
succeed and strive to lead great lives.
What you will be doing
Build Knowledge
* Delivering broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students, offering a personalised programme of study.
* Teaching across Key Stages 3 and 4 (possibly 5 depending on experience).
* Employ a variety of teaching techniques to stimulate learning.
* Contribute to departmental development plans.
* Actively involve yourself in Trust CPD programmes.
* Sound subject knowledge and related pedagogy.
Build Trust
* Create a high quality learning environment for our students which meets internal and external quality standards.
* Work collaboratively with classroom support and departmental teams to create a supportive learning environment.
* Communicate effectively with students, parents and colleagues.
* Supports colleagues through mentoring or coaching, providing advice and support on raising teaching standards and attainment.
Prioritisation
* Adapt teaching methods according to the students educational needs and to ensure the very best outcomes.
* Creates a happy, stimulating, inspiring and challenging learning environment.
Clarity and Energy
* Consistently apply behaviour standards to encourage a culture for learning.
* Delivering programmes of learning that inspire success in our students.
* Assist in the planning and development of specifications, resources, schemes of work and marking policies.
* Expects challenge and has the ability to inspire enthusiasm and confidence in others.
Follow Up
* Review learning outcomes and adapt programmes of teaching to promote world class educational opportunities..
* Prepare and update subject materials.
* Assess, record and report on the attendance, progress and development of students.
* Provide verbal and written feedback to students.
* Challenge and develop current practice to support the achievement of world class education.
Leadership (UPS)
* Act as a role model for teaching and learning, making a distinctive contribution to raising standards across the school.
* Continue to develop your own expertise, providing sustained and consistent collaborative contribution to the wider school.
* Proactively seeking, creating and leading on opportunities that have a demonstrably positive impact on creating a world class learning environment.
How you will be doing it
Dream Big
* Deliver value opportunities for world class education for all students
Take Responsibility
* To maintain confidentiality of information acquired in the course of undertaking duties for the department.
* Ensure Health and Safety and Safeguarding are at the centre of your approach.
* Take accountability for your own development and aspire to deliver the very best practice across all areas of your role.
* To attend staff meetings and school-based CPD days as required.
Be Kind
* To encourage acceptance and inclusion of all students.
* Support positive strategies for promoting equality and for challenging racial and other prejudice.
Recruiter contact:
Email us
Call us
About Pool Academy
Pool Academy
Church Road, Pool, Redruth
Cornwall
TR15 3PZ
United Kingdom
Pool Academy, in the heart of West Cornwall, is a community school that puts its pupils at the centre of everything it does. With excellent pastoral care, allied to an aspirational academic curriculum, we offer a student experience which is second to none.
Popular with parents and surrounded by beautiful countryside and amazing beaches, Pool Academy is the perfect place to take the next step in your career and enjoy all that Cornwall has to offer. Staff at Pool Academy pride themselves on providing a supportive environment, a clear vision for raising outcomes and a belief in the importance of extra-curricular opportunities.
Central to everything we do are our core values: Aspiration, Belonging and Respect. We have the highest aspirations for all students and we mirror these with the very highest expectations for student conduct. This ensures learning is maximised and all students thrive in a caring and respectful environment.
Our vision is driven by the desire to remove any barriers which could prevent students from achieving academic success. Key to this is giving students opportunities to develop self-esteem through academic success. Our dedicated and highly skilled staff team thrive on this, working with parents and carers to produce confident, ambitious young adults who are equipped with the education and skills they will need in order to make positive and sustained contributions to society.
Our students are confident and articulate. They are polite and well behaved. Student leadership is a strength of the school and the prefects underpin a strong network of student support and leadership.
Pool Academy is a technology led creative community which uses resources to engender success for all its students. Every student and member of staff has an iPad and their use is embedded in our ambitious and rigorous curriculum.
The Trustees are deeply invested in all areas of the school and have been instrumental In ensuring our facilities and learning environment are the envy of many other schools. Our extra-curricular offer is extensive. We believe that an arts and sports education is essential for students' development and that creativity is central to all disciplines.
Our website
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provides an initial insight, therefore you are very welcome to visit us and see for yourself what makes Pool Academy so special.
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