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Deputy Head of School

St Thomas' CofE Primary Academy, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST7 4HT

This job expired on 20 October 2023 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  January 2024

• Closing date

  20 October 2023 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  4 October 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £46,548.00 - £50,122.00 Annually (Actual) L3-6 (pay award pending)

Deputy Head of School job summary

The Deputy Head of School post will be ideal for an excellent classroom practitioner looking for the next stage in their career. The successful candidate will be fully supported by an Executive Principal and Head of School empowering the successful candidate to focus their attention on ensuring the pupils in the academy benefit from the highest levels of teaching, learning and curriculum opportunities.

At St Thomas’ we aspire for everyone to achieve their God-given academic, personal and spiritual potential, so they flourish and make a positive impact in the world. Jesus came to offer life in all its fullness, and we aim to support this through providing a Christian education for the children of Kidsgrove and the surrounding areas through learning for life with Jesus.

We’re a smaller than average primary school located just outside the town centre of Kidsgrove, with excellent transport links via car or rail. St Thomas’ has a committed staffing body of both teaching and support staff and benefits from the wider support network at Three Spires. Our children are currently taught in mixed classes in key stage one and single year groups in key stage two; whilst our popular nursery caters for children age two and above ahead of them joining our early years class.

Visits to the academy are strongly encouraged ahead of applying; to arrange a visit please contact Catherine Pointon, Executive Principal via email - c.pointon@stthomascofeacademy.org. 

Further information on the role is available in the accompanying job description and person specification and applications should be made electronically via My New Term.

Three Spires Trust and its academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Section 128 direction check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

Commitment to safeguarding

Three Spires Trust and its academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Section 128 direction check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

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About St Thomas' CofE Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 172 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Thomas' CofE Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-thomas-cofe-primary-academy-stoke-on-trent

St Thomas’ CofE Academy is a small, welcoming primary school in Kidsgrove.

As a church school in Kidsgrove, our Christian values create an extended family atmosphere and a feeling of belonging within a caring community. In this environment, children feel confident and secure to try new things.

We are proud of our children: who they are and what they achieve. It is their learning and well-being that is at the heart of everything we do. Our dedicated and conscientious team of staff work hard to feed curiosity and inspire learning so that every child achieves and succeeds in a caring and secure environment.

We are committed to instilling in our children a life -long love for learning that will equip them to succeed in today’s ever-changing society. Whilst we follow the National Curriculum, we strive to make learning exciting and fun. We are extremely fortunate to have vast school grounds, within which we have our own Forest School. The children access these areas as part of their curriculum.

Parents are key to the success of the child’s education. We value the relationships we have with our parents and constantly seek to build on these. Our ‘Open Door’ policy and close working relationships, ensures parents are involved with their child’s education. The local community is seen as a valuable asset. As such, we enjoy positive relationships within it and the children feel proud to be part of it.

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