Headteacher
Copmanthorpe Primary School, York, North Yorkshire, YO23 3SBThis job expired on 8 September 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 January 2025
Closing date
8 September 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
13 August 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: Full Time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L11-L18
What skills and experience we're looking for
You
will be an ambitious, strategic and collaborative Headteacher or aspiring Headteacher
with a passion for promoting excellence through a rich and progressive curriculum;
have a strong focus on pupils’ achievement and holistic development and inspire
a life-long love of learning to enable our pupils to achieve and
succeed. Alongside this, you will teach everyone to uphold our core values with
an emphasis on kindness, respect and celebrating inclusion.
The Headship of a village school is unique: you have the benefit of getting to know a tight-knit and caring community and can build relationships with each child. Yet the role is diverse and requires a balanced skill-set. You will have strong financial capabilities, with a transparent and collaborative approach to stakeholder engagement. You will successfully embed a distributed approach and coaching culture to leadership and learning, and successfully address and lead school improvement priorities.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- A happy and friendly school, with delightful children who respect each other and have a thirst for learning.
- A culture which allows all staff to thrive and develop.
- An opportunity to see the huge potential that exists in making Copmanthorpe Primary School a pinnacle of excellence in primary education.
- Significant levels of support from the Local Authority, Governing Board and a staff team who are experienced, committed and passionate about our school.
- A Governing Body committed to providing support on all matters including more sensitive or difficult issues and including the wellbeing of all staff members.
- Support from other schools in our cluster where the Headteachers meet regularly. This provides a support network for sharing ideas and best practice.
Further details about the role
This is an excellent opportunity for an inspiring leader to lead, shape and further develop our wonderful school.
You will be working alongside a dedicated team of staff, and a governing body who are ambitious and are looking to work successfully together with the new Headteacher to bring a new buzz for forward-thinking learning to the school. You will have an affinity with our focus on wellbeing, determination and honesty, teaching everyone to have an inclusive mindset, aim high and provide every opportunity to overcome barriers and succeed.
For further information including application documentation, key dates and guidance, please visit our dedicated recruitment microsite via the apply button.
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.
About Copmanthorpe Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 347 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Copmanthorpe Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- Katherine.Brioude@northyorks.gov.uk
Copmanthorpe Primary School is a large primary school, situated in Copmanthorpe village, near York. The school has close contacts with the local community and benefits from support from the City of York cluster. The school has a warm and welcoming family atmosphere, where we place a great emphasis on continuing to develop working in partnership with parents/carers, children, governors, and the communities that we serve.
The school is successful and has been judged “good” by Ofsted. The quality of our teaching is consistently good and carefully monitored.
Arranging a visit to Copmanthorpe Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email Katherine.Brioude@northyorks.gov.uk.
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