Vice Principal
Highgate Primary Academy
Barnsley
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- Leadership 7 - 11
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 12 May 2024
Job overview
Are you ambitious for all children and passionate about helping them to flourish and achieve their very best in all aspects of school life and beyond? Join us as Vice Principal at Highgate Primary Academy and make a real difference.
We are looking for someone who is committed to a knowledge-rich education, with a track record of leading schools to high levels of attainment and with outstanding learning behaviours. Alongside the academic curriculum, the Trust also aspires to develop cultural capital and opportunities for personal development that enable the Trust’s pupils to leave our schools equipped for their next educational and life stage.
The successful candidate will embrace the opportunity to work with Trust and school leaders, to drive the further development and implementation Astrea’s curriculum strategies across all of our Primary schools.
We look forward to hearing from you if you:
- Are passionate, enthusiastic, motivated and ambitious with a track record of success
- Have high expectations of staff, and can encourage participation, innovation and confidence
- Can communicate a clear strategic vision and direction for the school
- Are able to support children to reach their full potential regardless of background or circumstance
- Have experience of being influential in a school that provides an excellent education for its pupils.
In return we can offer you:
- A dedicated team with high ambition for their pupils
- The support and expertise of a Principal and Regional Director
- The opportunity to complete NPQs
- An unrivalled professional progression model.
If you are a passionate, authentic and driven leader who has high expectations and aspirations and believes that we have a collective responsibility for our pupils please contact laura.sunley@astreahighgate.org to discuss the opportunity further.
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Posts are subject to enhanced DBS checks.
If you are joining us from another school, academy or trust we recognise your continuous service date with confirmation from your current employer. This can be discussed in more detail at interview.
Attached documents
About Highgate Primary Academy
- Highgate Primary Academy
- Nicholas Lane, Goldthorpe, Rotherham
- South Yorkshire
- S63 9AS
- United Kingdom
We have high hopes for our pupils, and this is expressed in our vision of “Making a Difference; To ourselves; To each other; To the World We Live In”. It’s important to us that children enjoy the time they spend here, but we also want them to achieve the very best they can. Our aim is to provide a learning experience that will help all children make rapid progress, whatever their starting point. We want to provide our children with the best possible start in life and help them acquire the skills, knowledge and understanding and ambition to prepare them for life beyond the classroom.
We want our academy to be a fun and exciting place where children thrive upon success. Ofsted recognised the school as ‘GOOD’ for the second time (October 2022). Inspectors praised Highgate as a safe, calm, and inclusive school place, where pupils are respectful, polite and leaders are ambitious for all their pupils, including those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). Pupils understand what the school value to ‘be respectful’ means, they listen to their teachers and are polite to staff throughout school, such as holding doors open for visitors. They remarked on how the school building is a calm and orderly place, in addition to how staff have:
- Introduced a curriculum that clearly sets out what pupils need to know.
- Minimised gaps in pupils’ knowledge due to COVID, teachers understand the importance of revisiting knowledge.
- Prepared Nursery well for Reception, especially in phonics. In Reception, teachers are described as well trained to teach pupils to read.
- Across the school, ensured pupils enjoy reading and borrow books from the library that they can continue to enjoy reading at home.
- Outside the classroom, enabled all pupils to access the improved range of clubs and activities on offer that develop their interests.
Astrea Academy Trust
We are delighted to be a part of the Astrea Academy Trust. The Astrea vision enables individual academies to flourish with real autonomy, whilst also ensuring a strong ethos of support and collaboration. Astrea Academy Trust is committed to high quality professional development and career opportunities for all staff, we are also passionate about cultivating our own talented workforce. At Astrea we believe that we can provide these unique roles by providing a huge opportunity to join a dynamic team working across the entire organisation.
Principal
Devinder Riat
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