Headteacher
Slated Row School
Milton Keynes
- Expired
- Salary:
- Highly competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2014 or January 2015
- Apply by:
- 14 May 2014
Job overview
Headteacher, Milton Keynes
Slated Row is a mixed, 4 to 19, community special school, providing for children who have moderate learning difficulties, although some have more complex special educational needs. The school has 182 pupils and occupies an attractive site, conveniently situated on the edge of Wolverton in the town of Milton Keynes. Judged outstanding under the new Ofsted framework, the school is acknowledged for its "excellent leadership and management" and "the consistent commitment and teamwork of staff and governors".
Following the retirement of the current Head, the Governing Body is looking for a Headteacher to:
- Provide inspirational and motivational leadership across the school
- Work with the staff to provide a compelling and exciting curriculum
- Promote the school's ethos and raise the profile of the school within the community
- Pioneer our approach to the possible implementation of 19 to 25 provision
Currently a Headteacher or a successful Deputy with substantial experience of school leadership, you are an enthusiastic and inspirational leader who has the drive, ambition and high standards to build on our achievements and take us to the next level. You combine an extensive knowledge and experience of working with children with special educational needs, with creative and innovative approaches to teaching and learning. An effective people manager, you have the interpersonal skills and high professional standards to engage with and motivate staff, learners and parents alike and the focus and drive needed for whole school management.
In return for your integrity, experience, resilience and dynamism, we are able to offer you the opportunity to work with an engaged and supportive governing body and talented and highly dedicated teachers who all share a real commitment to maximizing opportunities for our pupils and equipping them to lead fulfilling and independent lives.
We actively encourage all candidates to visit the school. To arrange a visit, please contact John Carter at Veredus.For an information pack, please contact John Carter at Veredus on 07725 607112 or email him at john.carter@veredus.co.uk. Please supply a contact telephone number.
CLOSING DATE: Wed 14 May 2014 at noon
INTERVIEW DATE: Fri 23 May 2014
Slated Row School
Milton Keynes
NUMBER ON ROLL: 182
About Slated Row School
- Slated Row School
- Old Wolverton Road, Wolverton, Milton Keynes
- Buckinghamshire
- MK12 5NJ
- United Kingdom
Slated Row is a special school for children aged from 4 to 19, providing mainly for children with a wide range of needs and learning difficulties. The school has a maximum design capacity for 160 pupils, although currently there are 183 pupils on roll. The school occupies an attractive and semi rural site, conveniently situated on the edge of Wolverton in the new city of Milton Keynes.
The school is over subscribed year on year and attracts a high calibre of applicants for positions at both Teaching, Management and Teaching assistant levels. The promotion of independence is a major priority throughout the school, with many opportunities provided for pupils to participate in community based projects so that they can experience to the full, the opportunities afforded to them beyond school.
The school’s governing body is also extremely active, supportive, hardworking and experienced. Its structure and standing ensure that they can maintain a detailed working knowledge of the school, placing them in an excellent position to steer its future development.
Slated Row is a friendly, caring and orderly establishment where high standards of teaching, learning, motivation, application and behaviour are the expected norm. This not only ensures a safe and happy environment, but also a willingness to achieve and for pupils to thrive academically, socially and emotionally.
Slated Row School was awarded its third ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted Inspection in November 2013. Over the last ten years the school has gone from strength to strength.
Some excerpts from the report as follows;
‘This is an outstanding school. Excellent leadership and management by the headteacher and senior team, together with the consistent commitment and teamwork of staff and governors have resulted in Slated Row sustaining, building and improving on its outstanding achievements since its previous inspection.
Teaching is inspirational. Teachers and support staff have an excellent understanding of their pupils needs, adapting activities extremely effectively to enable each pupil to make the best possible progress.
Pupils achieve consistently well in all areas of the curriculum. The school provides an excellent range of experiences and does much to support pupils’ outstanding development’.
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