Headteacher
Elm Grove Primary School, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 3ESThis job expired on 19 February 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
19 February 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
23 January 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
Full-time equivalent salary
- between £69,970 and £81,070
Pay scale
- L17-L23
What skills and experience we're looking for
What the school offers its staff
Further details about the role
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding children and young people is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone who comes into contact with children and families has a role to play.
Our pupils’ welfare is our paramount concern. Our school will safeguard and promote the welfare of pupils and work together with other agencies to ensure that our school has adequate arrangements to identify, assess and support those children and young people who are suffering or likely to suffer harm.
Our school is a community and all those directly connected, staff members, governors, parents,families and pupils, have an essential role to play in making it safe and secure.
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About Elm Grove Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 406 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Elm Grove Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- seancopping@elmgrove.brighton-hove.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01273708004
We are a thriving, two form entry school situated in the heart of our localcommunity in Brighton and Hove.
We pride ourselves in providing the bestpossible educational provision in a supportive, nurturing and inclusiveenvironment with safeguarding at its core.
Our whole staff team strive to ensure that all pupils achieve their full potential througha rich, varied and creative curriculum.
The new Teaching & Learning Policy reflects thelatest evidence-based research, the introduction of the mastery approach to maths,the Sounds Write phonic programme and updated assessment processes andsystems are all indicative of this.
Elm Grove excels in sport. Achieving the Platinum Sports Award and offering childrenopportunities to participate in a huge variety of activities both at competitive level andsupporting as wide a range of children, of all abilities, to take part in sport. From cricketto dance, gymnastics to football, the school has a fantastic sporting reputation.
Creativity is central at Elm Grove where children are encouraged to expressthemselves through their artwork, music, drama and design & technology. Weparticipate in the annual Children’s Parade, which opens the annual Brighton Festival.
Sustainability lies at our heart, and we are proud to fly the Green Flag Eco SchoolsAward with distinction thanks to the extensive work by our Eco Club and Eco Council.
Our three playgrounds and basketball court offer fantastic outdoor learning andactivities, where daily OPAL (outdoor play and learning) creates an enjoyable,stimulating and challenging play environment.
We are an inclusive school that celebrates and supports diversity in all its forms. Westrive for the best outcomes for children with SEND, led by our experienced SENCO inclose collaboration with staff and families. The Nest and Canopy rooms offer safe,inclusive spaces for children to find emotional and mental wellbeing support from ourfull time inclusion mentor and inclusion TA.
Beyond the school day children enjoy a huge range of extra-curricular clubs andactivities, from coding to capoiera; drama to Dungeons & Dragons, Art Club toSpanish, and of course sport. Whatever their passion, children can grow their minds,broaden their skills and build their friendships.
A valuable resource for over 25 years, Elm Grove Out of School Club is a breakfast andafter school club hosted by the Elm Grove Primary School. The school and EGOOSCwork together closely, for the mutual benefit of the club, school and their families.
Our school website contains a wealth of additional information that you will find useful:
www.elmgrove.brighton-hove.sch.uk
Arranging a visit to Elm Grove Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email seancopping@elmgrove.brighton-hove.sch.uk.
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