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  • Job start date

    19 April 2021

  • Closing date

    29 January 2021 at 9am

  • Date listed

    12 January 2021

Job details

Job role

  • Headteacher
  • Deputy headteacher
  • Assistant headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full-time equivalent salary

L22 - L28

Additional allowances

The Trust is exceptionally supportive, with a core of excellent directors who have long service as governors and who understand and appreciate the work of schools, and challenge is welcomed. We work to create strong governance that acts as a good critical friend.

Headteacher job summary

Core Purpose:
The Headteacher will be the strategic lead professional at Court Fields School. They will provide vision, inspirational and professional leadership to ensure the continued success, improvement and development of the School and The Trust. The Headteacher will work strategically with all partners and stakeholders to develop provision beyond Good, which will transform the educational and future life opportunities of all pupils.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Blackdown Education Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all who work here to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to employment checks, including an Enhanced DBS disclosure.

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About Court Fields School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
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School size
751 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Phone number
01823274073

Court Fields is an 11-16 secondary school of about 775 students but a PAN of 860. At Court Fields, we carefully tend the positive and warm community where everyone is valued and treated fairly. Parents are very appreciative of the school. However, it is in its third RI judgment and progress is still not good enough. We want to be honest and transparent with candidates about this. The school joined the Trust in 2014 as a sponsored academy in Special Measures and was deeply so. It was taken out of Special Measures only 3 months after the Trust had taken it over and this was probably too quickly if we are honest, although at the time, we were very pleased. Since then a succession of school leaders have done much to improve the ethos, the behaviour and expectations but as you will know, it takes time to improve the quality of teaching and learning and whilst there is considerable progress and improvement, best practice is not yet fully embedded and consistent for every child in every lesson, every day. Leadership is strong throughout the school in both curriculum and pastoral however and I am confident that these improvements will be sustained given strong leadership and a determination from the new permanently appointed Headteacher.

Teachers and support staff have a great ethic and work hard for the children of Court Fields; they just need stability and consistency so that improvements already in place are allowed to embed fully. We do not need rapid change, we do not need a raft of new ideas. Everything is in place to more forwards and we need a steady hand on the till, guiding the school forwards at the right pace, supporting staff so that we retain the excellent people we now have in place, and maintaining the very positive relationships the school has with its community.

We are now seeking a new permanent Headteacher to ensure the school continues to move forwards.

Arranging a visit to Court Fields School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email Recruitment@castle.somerset.sch.uk.

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