Headteacher
Sandy Lane Primary School, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 2JG3 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Either 1st September 2024 or 1st January 2025
Closing date
6 May 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L19 - L23 (£74,811 - £82,373)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a new Headteacher at Sandy Lane Primary School, a large primary school based in Bracknell, Berkshire and is a popular two form entry school.
We have a loyal, talented and committed team of professionals ready to be led by a Headteacher with a passion for teaching and learning to guide them in continual school improvement and deliveryof a curriculum with aspirational impact and outcomes. In order to achieve this, we require colleagues who have a passion for teaching and learning and who want to work in a school with colleagues that are innovative, forward thinking and who support each other in their approach to education.
Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi-academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive, non-selective and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.
The Headteacher will:
- demonstrate a passion for education and a desire to improve the life chances of all children;
- build a culture of continuous learning and development throughout the school community;
- adapt rapidly to the challenge of building on the existing strengths of the school to achieve all round excellence in teaching and learning;
- assess their approach and style and challenge themselves to think differently about how to best align their leadership to the needs of the school;
- maintain and develop the school's ethos of diversity, inclusivity, and equality of opportunity;
- have successful experience in senior leadership as an Assistant Headteacher, Deputy Headteacher or Headteacher.
Main responsibilities:
- develop the strategic vision for our successful school, ensuring that it is clearly articulated, shared, understood, and acted on effectively by all;
- ensure that quality of learning is at the centre of the organisation and management of the school;
- seek to ensure that the school’s systems, organisation, and processes are well considered, efficient, fit for purpose and uphold the Trust’s principles of transparency, integrity, and probity;
- develop and propose the annual budget consistent with the school’s priorities and in line with the policies of the Trust;
- ensure that the curriculum is broad, balanced, diverse, flexible and offers opportunities for all children to be successful and engaged;
- set appropriate and challenging curriculum targets for all children;
- maintain and develop an effective system for monitoring and evaluating teaching and learning and for improving practice drawing on relevant research evidence and robust data analysis;
- proactively develop among all staff the effective professional relationships, the good order and high morale and the understanding of accountability that led to the best possible children’s outcomes;
- create an environment that encourages ideas and contributions from staff and values the achievements of individuals and teams;
- maintain and develop an effective partnership with parents and carers to support children's achievements and personal development;
You will need:
- Degree
- Qualified Teacher Status
- experience in senior leadership as an Assistant Headteacher, Deputy Headteacher or Headteacher within the primary phase
- to lead by example and aim to inspire, motivate, influence, and empower staff, children, and parents through personal commitment, maintain and develop our ethos of diversity, inclusivity, and equality of opportunity
- commitment to own personal and professional development
- a higher qualification in education and/ormanagement would be desirable as wouldNPQH
What the school offers its staff
What’s in it for you:
- Professional development and career progression
- Generous pension scheme
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Gym Discounts
- Free eye tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Green car scheme
- Being part of a great team and expanding organisation
Further details about the role
Please download the recruitment pack for further information.
Closing date for receipt of applications is 11.59pm on Monday 6th May2024. We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date.
We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive.If you require any support or adjustments to interact with us, please let us know.
Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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.
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About Sandy Lane Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 475 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Sandy Lane Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- sbm@sandylanebracknell.com
Sandy Lane Primary School is a large primary school based in Bracknell, Berkshire and is a popular two form entry school. We are a proud member of the Greenshaw Learning Trust, a ‘family’ of like-minded schools that collaborate to provide mutual support, share good practice, and learn from each other while retaining and developing their own distinctive character. Greenshaw Learning Trust has at its heart effective collaboration and the sharing of the very best practice not only throughout the organisation, but across and with other like-minded educational organisations, further improving the life chances of as many young people as possible.
We are ambitious about diversity and inclusion and very much look forward to receiving applications from candidates whose personal qualities and values reflect those in the person specification and whose experiences also place them in a strong position to deliver the challenges set out in the job description. We encourage applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, religion, belief, or race.
Arranging a visit to Sandy Lane Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email sbm@sandylanebracknell.com.
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