9 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    18 May 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    7 May 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Head of year or phase
  • Head of department or curriculum

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Early years

Working pattern

Part time: 0.6 FTE. Hours may be worked over three full days or the equivalent hours split over four or five days.

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

L2 to L5

What skills and experience we're looking for

Low Road and Windmill Music Federation require an enthusiastic and committed Head of EYFS to start Sept 2023. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced EYFS specialist to make a positive impact across both schools.

Our schools are rated “Good” by OfSTED and we believe we are on an improving trajectory.

Low Road ‘You, your senior team and staff are dedicated to ensuring that all pupils do well and receive the very best’ Ofsted May 2018

Windmill ‘Staff morale is high. You have invested time and resources to enable your staff to develop their skills and confidence’ Ofsted October 2018.

Low Road and Windmill Primary schools are federated sharing an Executive Headteacher, Staff and Governing Body. We are Local Authority Community Schools committed to ensuring that all pupils achieve personal and academic success through a carefully crafted curriculum, celebrating fundamental British values and ensuring excellence through pride, effort and an aspirational vision. We also work in close partnership with Opera North to provide the incredible opportunity for all our pupils to have professional choral and instrumental tuition, and an opportunity to perform in some of the most prestigious venues imaginable.

We are seeking:

  • An EYFS specialist and leader with a commitment to the highest standards of teaching and learning
  • Practitioners who have high expectations of children’s achievement, progress and social development
  • Practitioners who want to work in a school with a genuine commitment to inclusion and equal opportunities
  • Practitioners who have highly effective communication skills with children, parents, colleagues and the wider community
  • Practitioners who can both manage and work closely with a range of colleagues including Teaching staff, our Daycare Management team our highly effective Teaching Assistant team
  • A team player who will embrace the needs of a rapidly improving school


What the school offers its staff

We are offering:

  • Children who are well behaved, enthusiastic and enjoy their learning
  • A school on a positive learning journey of improvement and expansion
  • A caring, supportive & friendly school with innovative ideas and supportive staff
  • An opportunity to develop your career in leadership

Commitment to safeguarding

Our schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidates will be subject to a Disclosure and barring Service check.

We promote diversity and want a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds

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About Windmill Primary School

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
406 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 11
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
0113 271 2115

Our Schools are situated in the South of Leeds with easy access to the M621, M62 and M1, Low Road is a 1 form-entry school with 211 children on roll and is federated with Windmill Primary School with 430 children on roll.

Arranging a visit to Windmill Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email vanessa.lincoln@musicfederation.co.uk.

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