Headteacher
Howe Park School
Milton Keynes
- Expired
- Salary:
- L15 to L21 (£53,429 to £61,901)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2015
- Apply by:
- 15 September 2014
Job overview
Established in 2001, Howe Park School is an Ofsted outstanding, popular and well respected Nursery and Infant School with 180 Infant School pupils on roll and 78 part-time placements in its Nursery. Currently part of the Milton Keynes' Council scheme of "Expanding the Best", Howe Park is becoming a three form entry school in September 2014, accommodating an additional 30 pupils in the Foundation class of the Infant School. Serving mixed communities in Emerson Valley, Bletchley and Furzton, Howe Park's pupils arrive at the school, assessed as at or below national expectations but leave performing above national expectations as a result of the school's relentless focus on high standards. Following the retirement of its current Headteacher, the school is looking for a Head, who has an in depth understanding of how children learn and must be able to:
- Provide inspirational and motivational leadership across the school to build on the school's outstanding provision and take it to its next exciting phase of development.
- Work with the Governing Body to sustain and further develop the vision and direction of the school.
- Use the opportunities created by the school's expansion to enhance the school's innovative and creative curriculum.
- Further develop the engagement with parents, carers and stakeholders to position the school at the heart of its community and to inspire the partnership between parents, the school and their children's education.
Howe Park School is seeking an experienced professional, who is currently a Headteacher or an experienced Deputy, leading an Infant or Lower School or a Headteacher or an experienced Deputy from a Primary School with substantial Early Years' experience. The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic and inspirational leader who has the ambition and high standards to build on our achievements and take us to the next level. You will combine a genuine empathy for children with an in depth understanding of how they learn through creative and innovative approaches to the curriculum. Committed to developing, promoting and distributing leadership throughout the school, you are an effective people manager, who possesses the interpersonal skills and high professional standards to engage with and motivate staff, children and parents. You will have the focus and drive needed for whole school management, with a rigorous approach to monitoring.
In return for your energy, integrity and enthusiasm, we offer you the opportunity to work in a school that prides itself on the warmth of its welcome and its family like atmosphere. You will have the opportunity to support, develop and grow an enthusiastic and committed senior leadership team which has a positive balance between experience and recent appointments. You will also work with an ambitious and engaged governing body to develop its plans moving it forward to its next phase of development as a three form entry infant school.
To discover more about this exciting opportunity and for an information pack and application form, please contact our retained consultant, John Carter at Veredus on 07725 607112 or email him at john.carter@veredus.co.uk Please supply a contact telephone number.
The Governing Body actively encourages all candidates to visit the school prior to the interviews. To arrange a visit, please contact John Carter at Veredus. Alternatively contact the school directly on 01908 526294.
Closing date for applications: 15th September 2014
Interviews: 24th and 25th September 2014
About Howe Park School
- Howe Park School
- Bowland Drive, Emerson Valley
- Milton Keynes
- MK4 2SH
- United Kingdom
Mission Statement:
To nurture learning, growth and respect in a quality environment.
Aims of Howe Park School are to:
• promote a healthy lifestyle.
• enable the children to feel happy and confident.
• support, challenge and encourage the children to succeed in achieving their full potential.
• provide an ethos that is welcoming, calm and safe.
• stimulate learning through a range of teaching methods.
• create a learning partnership between the school, the home and the community.
Curriculum
Our curriculum aims are that each child should:
o Develop an understanding and concern for the world in which we live
o Develop the social skills of learning. To work and play co-operatively, to value others and to accept responsibility.
o Develop attitudes of perseverance, independence and self-discipline.
o Acquire knowledge and skills relevant to their future lived in a rapidly changing world.
o Be able to communicate effectively through language and mathematics and expressive arts.
o Develop lively, enquiring minds, imagination and the ability to question rationally.
o Develop respect for religious and moral values and empathy with people of other races, religions, gender and nations.
o Enjoy physical activity and develop their physical skills.
o Appreciate past and present human achievements and aspirations
o Develop an understanding of scientific ideas, knowledge and methods.
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