**Description**
**BSA Primary Early Years Foundation Stage - Key Stage 1 Leader**
**Purpose of Role**
The responsibility of the Key Stage Leader is to provide the best possible leadership in order to enable the most effective learning and teaching to take place in their Key Stage.
**ISP Principles**
**Begin with our children and students.**Our children and students are at the heart of what we do. Simply, their success is our success. Wellbeing and safety are both essential for learners and learning. Therefore, we are consistent in identifying potential safeguarding issues and acting and following up on all concerns appropriately.
**Treat everyone with care and respect.**We look after one another, embrace similarities and differences and promote the well-being of self and others.
**Are financially responsible**. We make financial choices carefully based on the needs of the children, students and our schools.
**Learn continuously.**Getting better is what drives us. We positively engage with personal and professional development and school improvement.
**Job Specific Duties**
- Establish clear lines of communication and encourage excellent relationships both within the Key Stage and between other Key Stages of the school
- Ensure that the day-to-day management of the section is efficient and effective with support from the Head of Primary
- Organise and chair Key Stage meetings, and maintain agendas and minutes
- Coordinate Key Stage performances, assembly rotas, events, etc. with Head of Primary
- Be jointly responsible for overseeing the well-being (safety, health and security) and education of all pupils in the section with the Head of Primary
- Promote positive behaviour, good discipline and relationships among the pupils in line with the school's policies
- Promote and encourage positive relationships with and among the section staff, and play an enabling, supporting and guiding role
- Oversee the resources and environment used by the section, ensuring good maintenance and care, encouraging efficiency through the practices of reducing, reusing and recycling and making recommendations for improvement
- Attend bi-weekly meetings with the Middle Leadership Team
- **Shared Responsibilities as a member of the MLT**
** - Support and promote the school’s ethos, learning definition and core values in order to promote the welfare, progress and continued development of the school and its children
- Plan, co-ordinate, enable and lead staff meetings/staff CPD workshops
- Regularly overview curriculum content to ensure the BSA curriculum meets the needs of our pupils and supports the ISP learning standards
- Play a key role in Learning Visits, the TLSE process, and offer learning conversations to teachers regarding target setting and professional development
- Monitor the teachers’ planning and assessment, and offer support and guidance
- To work alongside the SLT to analyse data when required
- Support with report writing and assist with the proof-reading of reports
- Support teachers to ensure that planning is regularly reviewed
- Keep self and colleagues aware of current educational practices (both UK and international) and update ISP policy and practice as appropriate
- Work closely with colleagues in the planning and implementation of the School Improvement Plan and the Learning Improvement Plan
- To help plan, organise and lead specific school events such as Book Week, Christmas shows, etc.
- **Motivation**- Maintain high standards of personal commitment and motivation
- Create opportunities to encourage, praise and challenge staff in believing their personal worth to the school
- Show concern for the welfare of pupils and staff
- Help create an atmosphere of enthusiasm and team spirit, and a willingness to respond positively to challenging situations
- Help maintain a balance between what is realistically possible and what is adecuado
- Work with the whole school community in supporting the ethos, values and purposes of the school- ** Monitoring and Evaluation**
- Share in the task of monitoring and evaluating the curriculum and the children’s learning in accordance with the school’s policies
- Share in the consideration of the overall educational environment of the buildings including displays, equipment, tidiness, and health and safety-
- **Communication**
Help ensure the effectiveness of all communication procedures and systems within the school and assist staff in their understanding of them
- Serve, where appropriate, as a link between the SLT and staff to enable a free-flow of information, ideas and views
- Maintain confidentiality, where relevant, in all matters
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** Training and Professional Development**
-- Access professional learning (CPD) relevant to the role of Key Stage Leader
- Identify and support the professional development needs of staff
- Assist SLT in sourcing relevant training for staff
- Provide appropriate training for staff where relevant
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-- ** Innovation**
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