Headteacher
Lordswood Boys' School
Birmingham
- Expired
- Salary:
- L29 - 33
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2014
- Apply by:
- 7 May 2014
Job overview
The Lordswood Academies Trust is seeking to appoint a dynamic and inspirational leader, with a proven track record in raising levels of achievement, to work with the Executive Headteacher in driving forward improvement strategies for the school to ensure that all students achieve their fullest potential and to support the school on its journey of improvement towards becoming a centre of educational excellence.
You will:
- Be passionate about teaching and learning and ensuring that all students achieve their fullest potential
- Be capable of motivating and developing colleagues
- Uncompromising in realising the Trust's ambition for the school and in challenging underperformance
We can offer:
- A friendly and cohesive student community
- A hardworking and committed team of staff
- A supportive and ambitious Trust
Lordswood Boys' School became a converter academy in January 2013, joining the Lordswood Academy Trust established by Lordswood Girls' School in 2011. The Lordswood Sixth Form Centre is open to students from both schools.
If you are interested in this exceptional opportunity, then please contact Ruth Simpson (PA to Head Teacher and the Senior Leadership Team) for further details or to arrange an informal visit on 0121 464 2837, or by emailing r.simpson@lb-sch.co.uk.
The closing date for applications is 7th May 2014 and interviews will be held week commencing 12th May 2014.
Lordswood Boys' School & Sixth Form Centre
Hagley Road, Birmingham B17 8BJ
Tel: 0121 464 2837 Fax: 0121 464 2746
E-mail: enquiry@lordswoodtrust.co.uk
Executive Head Teacher: Jane Gtschel Associate Head Teacher: Michael Carty
About Lordswood Boys' School
School Aims
To create an atomosphere of high expectation in which talents of all kinds and degrees are recognised and encouraged so that pupils are able to achieve their full intellectual, creative, and physical potential.
To help students develop lively, enquiring minds, giving them the ability to question and to argue rationally and to apply themselves to tasks.
To develop a caring community exercising concern and respect for moral values and for the welfare of others, together with tolerance of other races, religions, and ways of life.
To help pupils understand the world in which we live, and the interdependence of individuals, groups, and nations.
To help pupils to use language effectively and imaginatively in reading, writing and speaking.
To provide a basis of mathematical, scientific, and technical knowledge, enabling pupils to learn the essential skills needed in a fast-changing world of work
To help pupils to appreciate how the nation earns and maintains its standard of living and properly to esteem the essential role of industry and commerce in this process.
To teach pupils about human achievement and aspirations in the arts and sciences, in religion, and in the search for a more just social order.
To encourage and foster the development of the pupils whose social or environmental disadvantages impede their capacity to learn, if necessary by making additional resources available to them.
To promote understanding of and participation in the partnership between home, school, and community.
To give every pupil a continuing sense of enjoyment and achievement.
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