Deputy Headteacher
Foster's Primary School
Bexley
- Expired
- Salary:
- L11-L15
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January/April 2015
- Apply by:
- 7 November 2014
Job overview
The successful applicant will play a key leadership role in the school and will work alongside the Headteacher to further develop and implement our strategic vision. The role will involve working closely with Assistant Headteachers and curriculum leaders to improve standards across the school and ensure that all pupils make good progress. The Deputy Headteacher will also be responsible for assessment throughout the school. The current role is not class based but this may change in future years.
We are looking for:
- An excellent practitioner who can enthuse and inspire
- Someone passionate about raising aspiration and improving educational life chances
- A person able to demonstrate a proven track record of leading improvement
- A role model and champion learning
- A leader who is able to demonstrate high level interpersonal skills
- Someone with the vision and energy to help take our school forward
- Someone with high expectations for pupils' achievement and behaviour
- Is a 'people person' capable of building positive relationships with children, parents and governors whilst enhancing the role of the school as part of the community.
We offer:
- A happy, inclusive school where children are keen to learn
- Creative, innovative and forward thinking teaching and support staff
- An outstanding and well resourced environment for learning
- An active Governing Body and supportive parent community
Visits to the school are highly recommended and welcomed. Please contact Mrs Miller, Office Manager, to arrange a visit on 020 8298 7336.
To request an application pack or for more information regarding this vacancy please contact Schools HR:
Telephone: 0203 045 5050
E-mail: schoolsrecruitment@bexley.gov.uk
The closing date for receipt of applications is Midnight on Friday 7th November 2014.
Interviews are expected to be held on Wednesday 19th November 2014.
References will be requested for those short listed ONLY and prior to interview.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure and other employment checks.
The school is committed to equality and diversity in employment practice and service delivery.
Foster's Primary School
Westbrooke Road
Welling
Kent
DA16 1PN
About Foster's Primary School
- Foster's Primary School
- West Brooke Road, Welling
- Kent
- DA16 1PN
- United Kingdom
Foster’s Primary School is a mixed, non-denominational voluntary-controlled primary school for pupils aged three to 11.
It is located in Welling, Bexley, Kent, and has just under 450 pupils. There is a 52 place nursery on site. The school is the oldest primary school in Bexley.
The school can trace its history back to 1727, when William Foster established a foundation for learning. In his will he provided for a school for 20 poor children in the place of his birth.
Foster's moved to a new location in September 1998. The school is a two form entry school admitting 60 children each academic year. It also has a 52 place nursery on the site.
Headteacher
Mr Jason Hemley
Values and vision
Foster’s Primary School’s mission statement reads: “At Foster’s we aim to create and maintain an environment in which children are enabled to develop academically, socially, emotionally and personally.”
The school aims is to provide pupils with a safe and secure environment where they can develop academically and be happy. It provides a framework, which it hopes will allow all its children to develop as individuals, and enable children to develop a positive attitude to learning.
Foster’s encourages pupils to “celebrate our differences in order to foster respect and tolerance for each other”. The school has an “open door policy for parents” and believes that communication is the key to a successful school.
Ofsted
“Pupils achieve well from their starting points. Their behaviour and positive attitudes to learning mean they are confident in starting their next schools.The most recent unvalidated national tests results for the oldest pupils are the best for some time.”
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