Deputy Headteacher
Wollaston School
Northamptonshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- L20 - L24: currently £60,408 - £66,623 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2015
- Apply by:
- 8 October 2014
Job overview
The Governing Body are seeking to appoint a second Deputy Head to join the leadership team of our school. This is a superb opportunity for a talented and energetic school leader with a proven track record, to work alongside the newly appointed Headteacher - and a recently restructured, dynamic leadership team - who are all focused on taking Wollaston forward to become the school of choice in East Northants. This post will offer an excellent grounding for someone with clear ambition and potential to become a Headteacher.
We are a large, rural community school located in a village setting a few miles east of Northampton, with around 1400 total students on roll - of whom 230 students are in the sixth form. Results have been good across the school over several years at both GCSE and A-level, with approximately one hundred of our students progressing on to study at University each year (our school was deemed 'Good' during the last Ofsted visit, Spring 2013). Resources across the school are excellent: with several recently refurbished teaching blocks and a new dining area, and a brand new £1million science block which excitingly opens next month.
Key responsibilities include:
- To be able to identify, promote and implement new strategies and technologies in curriculum design and delivery, in order to improve teaching and learning across the school;
- To take the lead on whole school assessment in order to support student progress at Key Stages 3 & 4;
- To take overall responsibility for school leadership and management at Key Stage 3;
- Have the ability to support in the development of an outstanding climate for learning across the school, in order to drive sustained whole school improvement.
The successful candidate will:
- Be an inspirational teacher who consistently demonstrates outstanding classroom practice and results, able to inspire and promote the highest expectations from school colleagues;
- Be able to demonstrate a holistic understanding of the wider school curriculum and a good knowledge of the educational issues currently influencing curriculum change in schools;
- Confidently manage a large diverse workload in order to lead sustained whole school improvement, and be able to make a sustained, wider contribution to the school.
Closing date: Wednesday 8th October 2014
Interviews will be held during w/c 13th October 2014
Please contact Claire Edwards (HR), for an application form and further details about this role, on: 01933 663501 or via vacancies@wollaston-school.net.
Alternatively you can download details directly from the school website at: www.wollaston-school.info/vacancies/
Wollaston School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check
WOLLASTON SCHOOL
Irchester Road
Wollaston
Northants NN29 7PH
About Wollaston School
- Wollaston School
- Irchester Road, Wollaston, Wellingborough
- Northamptonshire
- NN29 7PH
- United Kingdom
Wollaston School is a large, rural community school located in a village setting about 15 minutes drive from Northampton. The student intake draws on nearby villages and the towns of Earls Barton, Wellingborough, and Irchester. We have over 1400 students on roll with approximately 240 students in the Sixth Form. The school is over-subscribed. Wollaston School was rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted in May 2023.
We are a school that takes great pride in our central purpose - to prepare every student for success. Success in academic qualifications, success in a wide range of extra-curricular and leadership activities and success in every individual’s personal and social development. We work towards this mission through a focus on exceptional levels of pastoral support and an academic and enrichment programme designed to ensure that every individual reaches their true potential.
At Wollaston, we believe in aiming high. We target excellence with the utmost commitment, but we also remember that a truly inspiring education is one that is filled with joy, laughter and happiness. We are also a school that is led by our values. We value honesty, kindness and tolerance. We embrace individuality as well as collective responsibility, we celebrate diversity, promote equality of opportunity, and we are a community which supports every individual to achieve all that they are capable of.
For most students, Wollaston School provides an education which lasts for seven years, from age 11 to age 18. Our ambition is to ensure that at the end of that journey, every student is ready to take their place in society as positive, purposeful, ethical and well qualified individuals.
Life at Wollaston School is characterised by an ethos of warmth, respect and ambition. We value effective working relationships with parents and we believe in delivering a high quality professional service in every aspect of our work. We offer a broad and exciting curriculum, expert teaching and high standards of academic achievement. We promote impeccable standards of behaviour and we expect the very best of every individual who walks through our doors. We are a team of staff and students who are committed to ensuring that our school is a truly exceptional place of learning.
Welcome to Wollaston School. If you would like to see us at work, please book a visit; we would be proud to show you our school.
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