About us Parents Boarding 6th Form Partners Contact us Log in People QE is a very large organisation, with around 260 employees. All our people are organised into teams. The Support and Leadership Team provide the overall leadership of the College. This is composed of the Principal, Vice Principal - Director Learning and Vice Principal - People, Resources Manager and Assistant Principals for Teaching, Data and Assessment, Learning Support and Student Support. This team handles the leadership and management of the College on a day to day basis. At the heart of the teaching structure are the Learning Areas. In each Learning Area specialist subject teachers provide our young people with well planned learning journeys which take them through each year of their development with us. Each Learning Area is led by a Team Leader. The Learning Area Team Leader’s main job is to guarantee the quality of the teaching and the learning experience in their area. The Team Leaders are led by the Director of Learning. Each Learning Area has a number of other posts of responsibility, either as Key Stage Co-ordinators,or as Subject Leaders depending on the nature and size of the Learning Area. The Learning Area Team has responsibility for ensuring the curriculum on offer is engaging, challenging, inspiring, coherent and appropriately assessed. The Director Learning has responsibility for ensuring the curriculum on offer across all Learning Areas is broad, balanced and coherent. The Assistant Principal Assessment and Data is responsible for making sure the curriculum is appropriately assessed and examined and that data is gathered and available to teachers to help them provide teaching and learning which enables individual students make good progress. The Assistant Principal Teaching is responsible for the leadership of the development of teaching quality in the College and specifically the Teaching School and CPD programme. Running across both areas is the Learning Support Team, led by the Assistant Principal Learning Support, who is also the SENDCO. This team provides services to ensure that all are able to engage with learning and achieve to the maximum of their potential. Their task is to plan interventions for any child identified as having an additional educational need. All three of these Assistant Principals work closely with the Director Learning to support the development of high quality teaching and learning in each of the Learning Areas. The Pastoral Team has the core purpose of guaranteeing the five outcomes of the Every Child Matters agenda: Being healthy Staying safe Enjoying and achieving Making a positive contribution Achieving economic well-being This team is led by the Director People and is composed of the Year Team Leaders and the Head of Boarding who are each responsible for the personal development of the students in their care across the five outcomes. Also across both sites and part of this team is the Student Support Team, Lead by Assistant Principal Student Support. This team supports students over their behaviour, attendance, Pastoral Programmes, Careers and work related learning. Last but not least in the structure are the support staff teams which underpin all of our activities. These are organised into small, self-managing teams with specific areas of responsibility. These are: Finance Personnel Exams Support and PR ICT Premises Catering QE Academy Trust A company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales No. 07562194 Registered Office - Western Road, Crediton , Devon EX17 3LU Tel: 01363 773 401