Welcome to The Stockwood Park Academy, part of Advantage Schools.

Join us:

This is an exciting time to join The Stockwood Park Academy Teaching Team led by Principal, Mumin Humayun.   Your colleagues are friendly, highly experienced subject experts and enjoy the teacher comradery. You will make friends and mentors for life.  Join us and share the love of your subject, because you enjoy working with young people, you want to make a real difference and inspire the next generation.  We strive for creativity in the classroom and above all making the whole journey fun!

·       Location; right next to Junction 10 of the M1, close to Stockwood Park Golf Course, Luton Rugby Club and the Luton Hoo.

·       Bus service

·       Ample staff parking

·       £30 million state of the art schooling facility

Staff benefits:

·       Pension

·       Work laptop

·       Car wash service

·       Once a quarter, Indian head or shoulder massage

·       Amazon/Delivery drop-off service

·       Dry Cleaning service

·       Staff wellbeing and Counsellor

·       Perkbox:    

o   Medical 24/7 Doctor appointments

o   Private and repeat prescriptions

o   Save money on everyday purchases

o   Online exercise classes

o   Employee Support Hub by Health Assured, giving you 24/7 access to qualified therapists

o   Competitions to enter

INTEGRITY  AMBITION  EXCELLENCE

We are a unique family of schools, sharing our practice and beliefs to enable young people to achieve the very highest standards. At Advantage Schools, we provide exceptional opportunities for all to be knowledgeable with experiences that broaden horizons. We ensure our children, students and adults cultivate a strong self-belief so that they can flourish and develop into successful, well- rounded, self-respecting people.  Our commitment to this vision can be demonstrated by our values.

INTEGRITY

We:  provide a caring, nurturing environment where children and young adults feel happy, healthy and supported. Our academies will be places of safety, enabling pupils to develop courage, strong ambition and be the best that they can be act honestly and transparently, advocating for pupils even when this causes difficulties work together to share innovative practice and to provide a wealth of opportunities for all pupils and staff focus on the development of all our colleagues through quality recruitment and retention, with excellent opportunities for clear and dynamic career progression.

AMBITION

We:  provide exceptional lessons enabling our pupils to be highly successful. We share the most impactful approaches to teaching, curriculum and assessment, ensuring an interesting, inclusive and challenging education is on offer in each of our schools.  Our aim is to guarantee excellent 2-19 provision, with clear progression routes for all. You can expect excellent behaviour and conduct at all times, allowing all to make progress and achieve.

EXCELLENCE

We:  enable all of our pupils to develop and flourish, through close working and regular communication with our families and local community.  Our Cross-Trust focus is to ensure children are supported to meet ambitious targets and to provide exciting opportunities both inside and outside of the classroom.

We also offer a fantastic Sixth Form provision for students aged between 16-19, and this is based at both The Stockwood and The Chalk Hills Academy.  Including in our Sixth Form provision is our Football Academy Pathway and brand-new Cricket Academy Pathway.

The Teaching Trust Teacher training based at The Chalk Hills Academy and is offered to all our colleagues should they be successful.

CPD and Training: Our Teaching Trust - WE INVEST IN YOU!

All of our Academies  are a part of our Teaching Trust. We aim to offer exception teacher training and high quality professional development programmes to new and experienced staff to support them in excelling in their career.

Our programmes are facilitated by experienced school leaders, who have exemplary records in leadership and improving outcomes for their students. We are able to cater for specific requests and can offer custom-made support packages that focus on the quality of teaching and learning, curriculum development and aspects of Leadership and Management.

We currently offer 'The National Award for Middle Leaders', 'The Outstanding Teacher Programme', 'The Improving Teacher Programme' and 'The National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership'. As Stockwood Park Academy is part of a Multi-Academy Trust, there are fantastic opportunities to climb the career ladder. We are a firm believer in helping all staff reach their full potential and developing their career within our Academies. If you are willing and wanting, we will do all we can to put you on the relevant courses and give you the right opportunities so you can keep achieving more in your career. If there isn't a current opportunity at The Stockwood Park Academy for promotion, there will be opportunities to move to one of our partner Academies.

The Sports Zone:

·  2 Football Pitches (floodlit, FA approved, full size and 3G Astro Turf)

·  Large Outdoor Hard Court

·  Four Tennis Courts

·  Three Netball Courts

·  Full Size Basketball Court

·  Full Size Netball Court

·  Four Badminton Court

·  Large Indoor Football Pitch

The Performance Plaza:

·  Theatre (tiered seating, professional lighting and sound system, curtains and backstage changing facilities)

·  Dance and Fitness Studio (sprung floors, dances barres, floor to ceiling mirrors, full PA and music systems)

Classroom Facilities:

·  Projectors

·  Smart Board and LapTOPS