Headteacher
Dunbury Church of England Academy, Winterborne Whitechurch, Dorset, DT11 0AWThis job expired on 17 September 2020 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 January 2021
Closing date
17 September 2020 at 9am
Date listed
13 July 2020
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
- Deputy headteacher
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
Full-time equivalent salary
- L10-L16 (negotiable according to experience) £51,311 - £59,528 p/a
Headteacher job summary
Please read and carefully consider the person specification and job description for this post.
Dunbury CE Academy is a positive and friendly place to work. The school is a small primary situated in two popular villages. We have gorgeous grounds and enjoy high quality resources. We are proud of our church school ethos that has the well-being of children at the heart of all we do.
We genuinely value the positive contribution of every member of our team and are keen to welcome other like-minded staff. We are part of the Diocese of Salisbury Academy Trust and commit to working collaboratively to achieve the best outcomes for all children in the Trust. We are a good school and always ambitious to reach the next level.
Are you looking for your next big adventure? Ready for a bigger leadership opportunity?
Are you determined, innovative and passionate about learning?
Do you have the skills and attributes to lead a team, determined to offer the very best education?
Can you commit to being part of a journey to secure excellent outcomes for our young people?
We are looking for someone who:
• Has a dynamic vision for the education of all children
• Has a proven track record of excellent teaching and learning
• Has a desire and commitment to raising standards for every child
• Is creative and can embrace change
• Has energy, enthusiasm and passion
• Can build positive working relationships within a diverse school community
• Can lead by example and is ready to learn and grow with us
• Is able to show reflectiveness and persistence when dealing with complexity
• Genuinely wants to be part of our future
We can offer:
• Young people who love their school and are excited by learning
• A team of dedicated staff who believe in keeping the children at the heart of everything they do
• A collaborative desire to be the very best we can be
• Opportunities for professional development
• A governing body prepared to support and work hard for the school
• A strong and supportive parent body
• A positive, caring school ethos firmly rooted in our church school values
• A Trust that offers many opportunities for working together and collaboration
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 Dunbury Church of England Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 118 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- office@dsat.org.uk
Our School
Our vision – strength in difference, together we are one, together we fly high – was shaped by the whole school community. It binds us together in our drive to provide the fullest possible experiences for our children and to enrich our communities with understanding of the world beyond our gates and beyond our local area. Our core Christian values underpin all that we do. As a Church school, we work together to provide an excellent education, within an inclusive, respectful and kind Christian ethos. We wholly uphold the belief that we are all one in God. We strive to enable our children to achieve the very best and to surpass all expectations. We want to inspire children to go out into their community and into the world and make a positive difference.
Shaping our vision required us to consider carefully the needs of the community that we serve. We have started to purposefully reshape our curriculum so that it bears out our vision. We identified that our rural Dorset communities do not always provide our children with the full richness and diversity of life in the UK. We identified that, increasingly, children’s resilience when encountering obstacles or problems can be overwhelmed, and this can be exacerbated by poor mental health and wellbeing. We identified that the greatest barrier to children achieving and enjoying all that education has to offer is poor language skills. Our vision is to foster a community that empowers each other to overcome these issues, and so these issues are the drivers of our curriculum.
Our curriculum is designed to be woven throughout with engaging, meaningful and high-quality learning opportunities that meet the needs and enrich the experiences of our rural school community. Carefully planned opportunities inspire and nurture a life-long love of learning, promoting positive learning behaviours and helping our children to grow and flourish as confident, resilient and aspirational individuals.
The foundation of our curriculum intent is our vision statement of ‘strength in difference, together we are one, together we fly high’. Our curriculum is underpinned by our core Christian values of friendship, respect, courage and trust, while it is driven by our community priorities: community & diversity, resilience & well-being and communication & language.
We want our children to learn and understand a rich conceptual body of knowledge and develop skills that equip them to succeed in today’s and tomorrow’s world.
We want them to acquire an understanding of personal and social responsibility that enables them to have a real and positive impact on themselves, on their communities and on the environment.
We want them to grow and flourish as unique and curious individuals with the resilience and determination to continually challenge themselves, to innovate, to aspire and to achieve highly.
Through the curriculum they will refine their ability to create, perform and author high quality work. They will develop language and communication skills necessary to thrive and succeed. They will learn to think critically and independently, developing positive self-esteem, wellbeing and confidence.
Our curriculum is designed to provide an in-depth, relational and applicable knowledge and understanding in the different subjects. It is underpinned by the National Curriculum, strengthened through careful mapping of how concepts progress in complexity across each year group. Core personal, social and thinking skills are woven through the curriculum, so that children aspire to be Intrepid Individuals, Team Players and Life-Long Learners.
We want our curriculum to enable every child to fly high, creating ground-breakers and change-makers, communicators, instigators, leaders – and friends
Arranging a visit to Dunbury Church of England Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@dsat.org.uk.
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