Principal
Stantonbury Campus
Milton Keynes
- Expired
- Salary:
- L37 – L43 (six figure salary for an exceptional candidate) Relocation package available
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2015
- Apply by:
- 2 March 2015
Job overview
Stantonbury Campus is an 11-18 foundation school at the heart of Milton Keynes, a vibrant multicultural school in England’s fastest growing city. The 60 acre site includes community sport and arts provision, now a charitable arm of our work. We have over 2000 students on roll, including a thriving Sixth Form in a newly refurbished building and two specialist SEND departments. Our innovative curriculum includes specialist courses in sport and the arts.
Our mission is to enable every student to succeed through high expectations, good teaching and a friendly supportive environment. Staff and students use first names, Stantonbury Xtra provides a wide-range of extra-curricular activities and the Progress Centre has rapidly established a national reputation for the tuition and support it offers to disadvantaged students. Our students are confident and successful: our badminton team recently represented England in the world championships, we have a fine reputation for debating and over a hundred students go on to university each year.
For the right person, this is a great job, but there are challenges ahead if the school is to become outstanding. We need to raise standards further and find ways of securing investment in our ageing building stock. Following the retirement of Chris Williams this summer, we are looking for a new Principal who will:
- Build on recent successes by consolidating improvements in raising standards through leading edge pedagogy and new technologies for learning
- Strengthen links with our community
- Look for and exploit opportunities to form partnerships and access funding that will enhance our educational offer and upgrade our facilities.
There is no blueprint for the appointment but the successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:
- A commitment to inclusion and a determination to get the best for every student
- Successful experience as a senior leader in a school, preferably as a headteacher
- Excellent strategic leadership -a thoughtful and well informed approach to leading educational change
- Strong interpersonal leadership – an approachable leader with a strong sense of moral purpose and integrity
- Informed leadership of pedagogy – a successful track record in teaching children and developing staff
- Entrepreneurial and collaborative approach to problem solving
- Imagination, ambition, determination and a strong sense of purpose
- Dynamism and an ability to motivate
If you are interested in applying for this post, we strongly recommend a visit to the Campus. To arrange this, please contact the HR team on 01908 324400 or hr@stantonbury.org.uk
To apply
Please complete the online application, including the names of two referees. You should also submit a statement to support your application in which you explain how your values, knowledge, experience and skills/abilities meet the requirements of the person specification. It should be no more than 1200 words.
In addition, you are invited to submit a further page of A4 (maximum 400 words) in which you describe an improvement initiative you have led, setting out the challenge/starting point, action and impact.
Closing date 2nd March 2015 (12 noon)
Interview dates 11th and 12th March 2015
Applications may be submitted electronically to hr@stantonbury.org.uk or by post to Stantonbury Campus, Purbeck, Milton Keynes, MK 14 6BN, using the title ‘Principal Application’.
Stantonbury Campus, Milton Keynes
About Stantonbury Campus
- Stantonbury Campus
- Purbeck, Stantonbury, Milton Keynes
- Buckinghamshire
- MK14 6BN
- United Kingdom
Welcome to Stantonbury Campus, an 11-18 school with a proud history of innovation, creativity and warm relationships between staff and students, through which we support our learners to discover their talents, to open their minds to new opportunities and to achieve their personal best. Established in 1974 as one of the first community schools in Milton Keynes, we are committed to preserving our proud tradition as a school that serves its local community, giving access to our theatre and leisure facilities and making local, national and international connections wherever we can.
At Stantonbury success is a journey that involves every member of our school community learning and developing together, being individually known and being challenged to reflect, to lead, to support one another and to develop their own unique character. We are proud of our reputation for the maturity and personal confidence our students demonstrate in adult and challenging contexts and we work tirelessly to ensure that our students leave us with the excellent qualifications, experiences, attitudes and skills that will enable them to take their place as fulfilled and active citizens in a rapidly changing world.
From September 2016, Stantonbury will join a family of twelve schools that form the Griffin Schools’ Trust (www.griffinschoolstrust.org), bringing exciting opportunities and focused support to inject pace and energy into our journey to become a truly great school within the next few years. The Trust shares our conviction that great schools are built on rich extra-curricular programmes and high quality pastoral care, as well as an inspiring curriculum, expertly taught. It builds community and communality across its schools, promoting unity rather than uniformity and enabling every school to develop its own unique character. The Trust team has collective expertise demonstrated in track records of outstanding school improvement as heads, teachers, local authority advisers and Ofsted inspectors.
Stantonbury has a proud history of outstanding provision and achievement in the creative arts and sport. Students enjoy exceptional teaching and facilities in the arts with access to our own art gallery, dance and drama studios, media recording studio and theatre and have gone on to take up places at prestigious drama schools such as RADA. Excellent provision in sport has contributed to outstanding success in local, national and international events, supported by access to outstanding facilities such as our leisure centre, gym, swimming pool and athletics stadium. From 2016 we will be offering Post 16 bursaries to talented sports and performing arts students and we are developing direct routes into further education through our partnership with Bedfordshire University.
Across a broad and balanced range of subjects, students are taught by subject specialists with a passion for what they teach and have opportunities to participate in a wide range of extra-curricular activities through the Stantonbury Xtra programme. In whatever they participate, students are supported and challenged to achieve their best.
Supported by a government PSBT grant, our STEM provision (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) will be transformed over the next few years to provide excellent facilities and a wider range of opportunities in these important subjects.
Specialist provision for inclusion and health and well-being, is provided by our Aspire Team, through one-to-one tuition, counselling and personalised programmes that enable every student to be supported to succeed. As an inclusive school we organise our curriculum to ensure that more able students engage with challenging activities.
Many students stay on into our Sixth Form, which is housed in specialist facilities and has its own café and private study area. The sixth form is consistently rated Good by OFSTED who noted that good teaching is leading to ever-rising standards (OFSTED 2015).
Stantonbury is a great place to work and to learn. Our students are proud to be part of our community and staff go the extra mile to help them succeed. To find out more, please get in touch or visit www.stantonbury.org.uk.
Michele Rhodes Ben Corbett
Acting Co-Principal Acting Co-Principal
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