Headteacher
Lawnswood School
Leeds
- Expired
- Salary:
- £83,892 - £97,128 (L33 - L39) + additional incentive allowance available to attract the best
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Easter 2015
- Apply by:
- 24 October 2014
Job overview
"The school has been successful in ensuring that all students achieve well across a range of subjects."(Ofsted October 2013).
Lawnswood School is a popular, successful school providing over 1,100 students aged 11 to 18 years with learning of the highest quality set within a modern campus and offering sector leading facilities. We have been on a rapid improvement journey to transform learning, this has been highlighted both by our recent inspection from Ofsted in October 2013 where we were recognised as a 'Good' school and as we celebrated our best ever results in 2014 with 59% of our students achieving 5 A*-C (including maths and English).
Our vision is for Lawnswood School to be recognised locally, regionally and nationally as an exceptional school and a beacon of best practice. We are already on this journey, but want our new Headteacher to lead both our staff and students, as well as working in partnership with parents, to achieve this vision together over the coming years.
We are looking for an experienced leader and inspirational practitioner who will contribute to the school's ethos of high expectations and aspirations for all children. Solid and effective leadership is central to the future success of our school. Ensuring our new Headteacher will build on our achievements to date whilst providing fresh drive to our vision moving forward is critical. You will be committed to providing young people with an exceptional education through strong leadership in innovative and forward-thinking teaching and learning and carefully structured guidance and support. You will inspire, develop and challenge staff to be outstanding practitioners to ensure every learner has the very best opportunities to succeed along their individually chosen pathway.
This is an exciting time for the right person to join us; we are on a path to excellence and are looking for the right person to take us from good to outstanding, harnessing the considerable talents of our students and staff on the way. Like any role of this scope, this headship has the potential to be challenging yet hugely rewarding.
If you are looking for a truly distinctive school, where you can make transformational and sustainable change then we would like to hear from you.
To find out more visit www.joinlawnswood.com/headteacher or contact Phil Watt or Alex Mills at Navigate on 0844 800 5300 for a confidential discussion. Visits to the school are encouraged and can be arranged by contacting colleagues at Navigate
Closing date: 24th October 2014.
Long-List Technical Interviews w/c: 3rd November 2014.
Final Panel Interviews w/c: 10th November 2014.
Lawnswood is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure. We promote diversity and want a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds.
Lawnswood School
Leeds, LS16 5AG
NOR: 1200
About Lawnswood School
Lawnswood School is a mixed, non-denominational community secondary school and sixth form for pupils aed 11-18. It is located in West Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire.
The school, founded in its current form in 1972, has capacity for up to about 1,500 pupils. Its predecessor schools were the Leeds Modern School, a boys' grammar school, and Lawnswood High School for Girls.
Headteacher
Jo Bell
Values and vision
Lawnswood School aims to create an inspirational community of learning, where its ambitions for academic attainment with an emphasis on students' moral, social, personal, and spiritual needs are combined.
The school wants its students to become caring, committed, self-aware and confident members of society. It aims to ensure all students are treated as individuals and are able to excel.
Lawnswood aims to ensure its students are equipped with the necessary knowledge, skills and confidence to undertake the next stage of their career, and hopes to foster leadership and engagement to encourage pupils to make a positive contribution to their school and community.
Ofsted
“The ambition and total commitment of the headteacher has raised the expectations of students and staff. This has resulted in significant improvements in the quality of teaching so that the school and inspectors judge more than three-quarters of teaching is now good or better.”
“Students’ achievement is now good overall, especially in the sixth form, where students make strong progress from relatively low starting points and achieve above the national average. All aspects of provision in the sixth form are at least good and some are outstanding.”
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