Headteacher
Woodston Primary School, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE2 9ER23 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025 (but will also consider January 2026 for the right candidate)
Closing date
28 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
4 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- L20-26
Headteacher job summary
About Woodston Primary School
About OWN Trust
Woodston Primary School is proud to be part of OWN Trust. We are committed to working together to ensure that every child receives the very best start to their education. OWN Trust schools provide children with a nurturing, supportive, and high-quality learning environment.
Each OWN Trust school has its own identity but is united by a common vision: ‘To have transformed aspirations, changed attitudes and raised achievements for our community through our passionate belief in the power of education’.
OWN Trust Values: Opportunity, Work Together and Nurture.
About this role
Please download our Headteacher Recruitment Pack to find out more and read the Job Description and Person Specification.
To apply for this role, please visit My New Term to complete your application. For the Personal Statement section of the application form, please set out why your skills and experiences make you a suitable candidate for this position, with direct reference to the Person Specification.
We actively encourage all candidates to visit the school prior to interview. Please note that all visits will be informal; they will not be part of the selection process and will not have any bearing on our shortlisting, interview, selection and recruitment process.
To discuss this exciting opportunity further and to arrange a visit, please email exechead@woodstonprimary.org.uk.
SCHOOL VISITS:
Can be requested via an email to exechead@woodstonprimary.org.ukand will then be scheduled to take place between Tuesday 22nd April and Friday 25th April.
INFORMAL CONVERSATION:
With the CEO can be requested via lgreco@own-trust.education
APPLICATIONS SHOULD MADE ON:
My New Term
CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS:
9.00am Monday 28th April 2025
STARTING DATE:
September 2025 (but will also consider January 2026 for the right candidate)
SALARY:
L20-26
SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES NOTIFIED:
By Thursday 1st May 2025
INTERVIEWDAYS:
Thursday 8
th
May and Friday 9th May 2025We can offer:
We are a dedicated and driven team, prioritizing the school and local community in all that we do. Our schools are professional and collaborative, focused on fostering strong working relationships while consistently maintaining high standards in the environments we create for both students and staff.
Enthusiastic pupils who are willing to learn
Comprehensive induction and on-going opportunities for professional development
A working culture that promotes diversity and equality
Opportunity to join the Local Government Pension Scheme
Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
Through coaching and thoughtful reflection, we support our colleagues, fostering a bold, creative, and aspirational culture.
The Trust is dedicated to promoting diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities for all staff. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, genders, sexual orientations, races, religions or beliefs, and marital or civil partnership statuses.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure & Barring service (DBS), as well as social media checks. Information on our schools can be found on their websites and on www.own-trust.education
Commitment to safeguarding
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), as well as social media checks.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Woodston Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 552 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Woodston Primary School website
Woodston is a large sized primary school that has expanded from a PAN of 20 in 2002 to a current PAN of 90 and is 3-form entry. The school has been consistently at capacity which in recent years, was the reason the Local Authority authorised and completed 3 building expansion works. We have a beautiful school and extensive grounds – all our pupils love and respect the environment they are in. Indeed, we positively promote care for each other and our environment. The school has a mixed demographic with 29% of pupils eligible for pupil premium; SEND support & EHCP totals 13.4%, which although is slightly lower than the National for SEN support, EHCP total is higher than average. We have an effective Inclusion Team that includes 2 Learning Mentors, 2 Family Support Officers, 1.1 FTE SENDCos and an ASD Specialist. Our SENDCos are part of a very strong Trust wide team, ensuring quality provision for children with additional needs.
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