Matthew Tansley

Head of Secondary School at this growing, British international school in Bucharest. We are an accredited member of COBIS, as well as holding membership of AoBSO and HPL.

• Part of team that led school from Good to Excellent in most recent ISI BSO inspection (September 2022).
• Part of team that led school to being accredited as a world class school with HPL (High performance learning)
• Established secondary school as a leading school in Romania in terms of university destinations of graduates
• Increased examination results at IGCSE and A Level significantly from 2017 to present
• Increased student numbers from 150 students in 2017 to 300 students currently
• Enhanced reputation of IBSB as being a high performing, academic school within the community
• Developed strong links with business and industry, providing opportunities for students
• Enhanced parent-teacher relationships with regular meetings, increasing re-enrollment of students
• Reduced staff turnover and increased staff happiness through support and professional development.

• Inspecting British Schools Overseas to ensure BSO standards are met.
• To date three inspections have been completed, with another planned later in 2024.

Deputy Headteacher (Curriculum) in this large international secondary school of 1300 pupils, that offers the English NC to Year 9, IGCSE to Year 11 and A Level/IBDP to Year 13. I was responsible for the following tasks within the international secondary school:

• Leading, motivating, inspiring and overseeing work of curriculum leads to ensure that schemes of work, resources and other materials are effective.
• Coordinating IBDP programme
• Monitoring progress of Curriculum Development Plans to maintain highest possible academic standards
• Organising and monitoring appraisal process of staff.
• Contributing to production of School Development Plans including development, implementation and evaluation of school policies, practices and procedures.
• Regularly reviewing teaching strategies and introducing new teaching strategies to enhance pupils’ learning.
• Reviewing and developing quality of teaching and learning and encouraging the sharing of good practice by organising programmes of quality assurance
• Taking strategic overviews of all academic matters – curriculum, quality of teaching and learning, assessment, records, pupil progress and reporting, as well as maintaining up to date knowledge and understanding of all developments in the secondary curriculum to ensure that the school curriculum is appropriate, engaging and challenging at all stages.

• Curriculum lead in this large department of nine teachers.
• Responsible for monitoring of learning and teaching within science as well as development and evaluation of SfL and assessment regimes.
• Led several curriculum initiatives as head of science, following analysis of current practice which led to improvements in assessment, marking and feedback as well as tracking progress of students.
• Involved in several whole school and academy wide initiatives including steering accreditation process for CIS which led to promotion.

• Curriculum leader of science, responsible for 8 members of staff
• Liaised with senior leadership team, organised exam entries, along with production of SfL and monitoring standards of learning and teaching within science.

• Head of Science at this Service Children's Education School in Dhekelia,
• Taught all three sciences to GCSE level, with Chemistry to A level.

• Taught Chemistry to A Level standard and other sciences to KS3.

• Taught Science and Chemistry to students from 11-18.