Astrea Academy Woodfields
Doncaster
£33,235 - £52,064 per year
Salary:
MPS - UPS + TLR 1a - £10,173
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
01 January 2026
Apply by:
28 September 2025
Job overview
Join our team as a Head of Key Stage Three at Astrea Academy Woodfields
Job Information:
Do you want to be part of a leadership team where you will help make a lasting impact on our students, many of whom are disadvantaged, and rapidly accelerate their progress? Do you want to work in a school where you are free to teach, with impeccable student behaviour and unhindered by bureaucracy?
Astrea Academy Trust is looking for a candidate who is ready to take their next step in leadership to become a Head of Key Stage Three at Astrea Academy Woodfields. This is an excellent opportunity for an existing or aspiring middle leader with a track record of impact in leading a year group or subject area. The position is a great match for someone who shares the Trust's vision for educational excellence and has the focus to drive rapid, transformational improvement.
Our Commitment:
We are committed to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour, and culture. We believe that schools must teach powerful knowledge, 'the best that has been thought and said,' and an 'entitlement curriculum' for all. We believe in explicit instruction and have been greatly influenced by Lemov's 'Teach Like A Champion,' Rosenshine, and recent developments in cognitive science. We believe that the creation of a scholarly culture that is warm and strict, disciplined and joyful, where there is 'purpose not power,' ensuring impeccable behaviour, where teachers can focus on teaching and pupils can focus on learning, underpins everything.
Our Values:
We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive, and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment, or needs. We want to ensure that all our students have the option to be able to go to university or aspirational alternative. We are not going to reduce expectations because of a child's background or home life, or because they are new to English or have a special education need. In fact, the opposite is true. It is our job to redouble our efforts to help children overcome these barriers so that they can flourish.
We value our staff highly and treat workload very seriously. Our systems are high leverage, ensuring you can really focus on your core purpose – teaching, in a sustainable way, unhindered by bureaucracy or poor behaviour.
What We Offer:
Huge support and progression opportunities
A knowledge-rich curriculum, built on 'powerful knowledge' and a traditional T&L approach built around Rosenshine and TLAC
Collaborative planning with centralised, shared units of work and resources
Excellent support from the Astrea Trust Central team
A feedback policy focused on whole class feedback – no onerous marking policies
Disruption-free learning and a 'warm/strict' behaviour system
Highly visible/supportive senior leaders who have your back
Centralised detentions, including homework detentions (you do not need to organise/run/chase them at all)
No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing 'no-stakes' instructional coaching, helping you to continuously develop
Excellent ongoing CPD, career development, and promotion opportunities across the Astrea South Yorkshire region
Opportunity to complete NPQs
An unrivalled professional progression model
What We Are Looking For:
A highly effective senior leader or aspiring middle leader, who is able to motivate and encourage colleagues to the shared vision.
Aligned to our values and mission. If you are the type of person who fits with our culture, you will love working here.
Someone who passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter what their starting point, background, or needs. Someone that does not make excuses for what children can achieve.
Interested in Applying?
If this is something you are interested in, looking for a new challenge, have a passion for education, or maybe all of the above, take a look at the Recruitment Pack and Job Description to find out more about the role and how to apply. We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our academy to fully appreciate our excellent learning environment. Please contact Kathryn Haughian if you would like to arrange a visit to the academy.
Commitment to Safeguarding and EDI: Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks, including references and enhanced DBS checks. We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates who are underrepresented in our workforce, including people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ communities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to promoting a culture that ensures there are no barriers to the recruitment, development, and progression of disabled staff across the trust. We provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate their abilities.
Ready to Make a Difference? If you're ready to take the next step in your career and contribute to our dynamic and forward-thinking team, apply today and be a part of our mission to create a positive impact
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About Astrea Academy Woodfields
Astrea Academy Woodfields
Weston Road, Balby, Doncaster
South Yorkshire
DN4 8ND
United Kingdom
About Astrea Academy Woodfields
Welcome to Astrea Academy Woodfields and thank you for considering us as your school of choice. We have a unique approach to transforming the hearts and minds of young people so that they can go to university, or a real alternative, and live a great life.
As part of Astrea Academy Trust, we have used high-quality research and the experiences of the best schools to develop an ambitious curriculum, strong routines, and a life-changing programme of personal development. We believe in traditional approaches to teaching, and we value scholarship. In recognition of this, we refer to our young adults as 'scholars' to reflect the commitment that everyone makes to academic learning, here and beyond. We promote strong family values, manners, decency, hard work, and kindness. We do this by practising routines that enable us to make the most use of our time. We are both warm and strict so that scholars know we care and can succeed within firm boundaries.
We are curious, tenacious, and scholarly. Every scholar learns a classical musical instrument and practices this daily at home. They gain opportunities to play in orchestras and in world-class musical venues. Scholars complete two hours of homework a day and are supported to recall this information throughout the curriculum. Every person in school learns poetry by heart and will recite this publicly every day at the start and end of school. We all dine together as a family at lunchtime and serve each other food and tidy the table at the end of the meal. This is an extraordinary school that believes in simplicity and old-fashioned family values.
In our achievement-oriented culture, it is cool to be smart, and all scholars work hard to make the best of themselves. Working together, we support every child to get that place at university and a top job.
10 Great Reasons to Work Here
1. The curriculum is already planned using resources shared across all Astrea Academies. You need to intellectually prepare for lessons rather than plan from scratch.
2. We give feedback to scholars, there is no book marking.
3. Behaviour systems are centralised. The senior and pastoral teams organise detentions and children are polite and courteous. You can teach
4. We have 8 INSET days a year to give you the opportunities and time you need to develop as a teacher.
5. Our house style is Teach Like a Champion (Lemov). There are no gimmicks, or high workload alternatives to simple and effective teaching from the front.
6. There are strong routines that leave very few grey areas. The school is very predictable and calm.
7. There is a free lunch if you eat with the scholars as part of Family Dining. This develops their manners and builds good relationships between staff and scholars.
8.We are a warm, welcoming and friendly place to work and learn. There are 750 scholars so you will know most people well.
1. SLT are visible and approachable. This means that issues can be resolved quickly.
2. Our beating heart is our performing arts programme. Every new starter gets a musical instrument and lessons, we all learn poetry by heart, we have shows and productions. You can get involved
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion at Astrea Academy Trust
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
Astrea Academy Trust embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all requests for flexible working as we know that diversity fosters creativity and innovation.
We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities that we serve. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive and building our culture of belonging. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in Astrea's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, LGBTQI+ people.
All successful appointments will be subject to suitability checks in accordance with KCSIE, including identity, Right to Work, prohibition, qualifications, online searches, two references and enhanced DBS check including the Children's Barred List.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, which provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions, can be found here:
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