Headteacher
Boughton Leigh Junior School, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1LTThis job expired on 7 March 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
7 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
14 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L18-24
What skills and experience we're looking for
Shaping the future:
- Ensures the vision for the school is clearly articulated, shared, understood and acted upon effectively by all;• Works within the school community to translate the vision into agreed objectives and operational plans which will promote and sustain school improvement;• Demonstrates the vision and values in everyday work and practice;• Ensures that strategic planning takes account of the diversity, values and experience of the school and community at large;• Translating the Governing Body and Senior Leadership Teams vision for the school in clear deliverable plans.
Leading Learning & Teaching:
- Ensures a consistent and continuous school-wide focus on pupils’ achievement, using data and benchmarks to monitor progress in every child’s learning;• Ensures that the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum are met through creative, responsive and effective approaches to learning and teaching;• Ensures a culture and ethos of challenge and support where all pupils can achieve success and become engaged in their own learning;• Takes a strategic role in the development of new and emerging technologies to enhance and extend the learning experience of pupils;• Monitors, evaluates and reviews classroom practice and promotes improvement strategies.• Developing Self and Working with Others:• Treats people fairly, equitably and with dignity and respect to create and maintain a positive school culture;• Builds a collaborative learning culture within the school and actively engages with other schools to build effective learning communities;• Ensures effective planning, allocation, support and evaluation of work undertaken by self, teams and individuals;• Develops and maintains a culture of high expectations for self and for others and takes appropriate action when performance is unsatisfactory;• Ensure the development of, and maintain effective strategies and procedures for, staff induction, professional development and performance review.
What the school offers its staff
Further information about the job
Managing the School:
- Creates an organisational structure which reflects the school’s values, and enables the management systems, structures and processes to work effectively in line with legal requirements;• Produces and implements clear, evidence-based improvement plans and policies for the development of the school and its facilities;• Manages the school’s financial and human resources effectively and efficiently to achieve the school’s educational goals and priorities;• • Recruits, retains and deploys staff appropriately and manages their workload to achieve the vision and goals of the school;• Manages and organises the school environment efficiently and effectively to ensure that it meets the needs of the curriculum and health and safety regulations;• Ensures that the range, quality and use of all available resources is monitored, evaluated and reviewed to improve the quality of education for all pupils and provide value for money;• Ensures that the range, quality and use of all available resources is monitored, evaluated and reviewed to improve the quality of education for all pupils and provide value for money.
Securing Accountability:
- Fulfils commitments arising from contractual accountability to the Governing Body;• Develops a school ethos which enables everyone to work collaboratively, share knowledge and understanding, celebrate success and accept responsibility for outcomes;• Ensures individual staff accountabilities are clearly defined, understood and agreed and are subject to rigorous review and evaluation;• Ensure every individual child has access to high quality teaching and learning;• Works with the Governing Body (providing information, objective advice and support) to enable it to meet its responsibilities;• Develops and presents a coherent, understandable and accurate account of the school’s performance to a range of audiences including Governors, parents and carers;• Reflects on personal contribution to school achievements and takes account of feedback from others.
Strengthening Community:
- Builds a school culture and curriculum which takes account of the richness and diversity of the school’s communities;• Creates and promotes positive strategies for challenging racial and other prejudice and dealing with racial harassment;• Ensures learning experiences for pupils are linked into and integrated with the wider community;• Collaborates with other agencies in providing for the academic, spiritual, moral, social, emotional and cultural well-being of pupils and their families;• Creates and maintains an effective partnership with parents and carers to support and improve pupils’ achievement and personal development.
Commitment to Safeguarding Children:
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people as required under the Education Act 2002 and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment:
- Responsible for promoting the welfare of all children and young people;• Ensuring the policies and procedures adopted by the governing body are fully implemented and followed by all staff;• Ensuring all staff and volunteers feel able to raise concerns about poor or unsafe practice in regard to children, and such concerns are addressed sensitively and effectively in a timely manner in accordance with agreed whistle blowing practices;• Creates an organisational culture which is vigilant to, monitors and prioritises the safeguarding of children and young people above all considerations.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Boughton Leigh Junior School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 456 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Boughton Leigh Junior School website
- Email address
- admin2590@welearn365.com
- Phone number
- 01788 577914
Welcome to Boughton Leigh Junior School. We are a very proud 4 form entry school and have on offer, a wide and balanced curriculum which embraces the needs of all and essentially builds on our desire to prepare children for their life as adults. This is encompassed in our mission statement: Inspiring the minds of the next generation.
English and Maths lessons are engaging for pupils and are well supported by our wide ranging foundation curriculum, where History, P.E/Sport, PSHE and Forestry are a particular strength.
In addition to this we run an additional SEND Provision for pupils across Warwickshire who have an EHCP identifying primary needs in Communication and Interaction, and/ or ASD – please see the link to their own dedicated website.
We also offer before and after school wrap around care through our friendly KidZone which offers fun activities both indoors and out; the opportunity to complete homework tasks, and if required, an evening meal. We have an additional Breakfast Club, run by invitation, for school children with high anxiety facing the start of a school day, as well as a wide range of clubs and activities run by staff throughout the day.
At BLJS, we believe that learning should be fun and as such pupil engagement is key.
Outside we have 4 playgrounds with a range of activities on each, including a gym trail and Zen Garden. There is plenty to do, and pupils are supported by experienced staff, Harris Sports
and Rugby Council Play Rangers, who arrange organised games.
We run whole school support for well-being through the THRIVE approach, for which we have three trained practitioners. We have several Designated Leads for Safeguarding and additionally, two Pupil and Family Support workers who deliver Early Help and support for vulnerable children and families. Teachers and pupils are well supported by a team of experienced Teaching Assistants, including TAs that run therapy sessions and Forest School. We also have a trained support dog called George, so lots to enhance the physical, mental and academic development of our children.
We believe in the fundamental British Values and our pupils' ability to be successful and constructive citizens. Part of this is displayed through our school Parliament, whereby pupils may elect to join the House of Commons to represent their class, or may be elected by other pupils and staff, to be part of the House of Lords: a team that works closely with senior leaders to share pupil voice and make real changes to our setting.
Arranging a visit to Boughton Leigh Junior School
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