Headteacher - Five Acres Primary School
Five Acres Primary School, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX25 2SN26 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
8 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 March 2025
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
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £59,167 - £80,634
What skills and experience we're looking for
Job Introduction
Are you an experienced Headteacher seeking an exciting new opportunity? If so, Five Acres Primary School is the opportunity to drive your career forward.
Five Acres Primary School, located in the heart of Bicester, is a vibrant and inclusive school dedicated to providing a high-quality education in a supportive and welcoming environment.With a strong focus on fostering creativity, academic excellence, and personal growth, our school serves a diverse community of children from various backgrounds, empowering them to reach their full potential.
At Five Acres Primary, we pride ourselves on our nurturing atmosphere, where every child and adult is valued and supported to thrive.Our dedicated staff team works together to inspire a love of learning and encourage students to develop strong academic and social skills foundations.
We offer a range of extracurricular activities to support the development of well-rounded individuals and maintain strong relationships with families, ensuring a collaborative approach to each child’s education.
We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive school, with a high number of service and refugee families who are active members of our school community.
We are looking for a highly motivated, inspiring leader with a purposeful vision to build on the successes of our retiring Headteacher. Our school is an exciting place for both adults and children to learn, grow and develop. It is an improving school with more work to do. This is an exciting opportunity to take our school to the next level.
If you are a forward-thinking, inspirational leader passionate about making a difference in the lives of young learners and are excited to join a dynamic, forward-thinking school community, we would love to hear from you.
So why not request an information pack and visit us and see for yourself? The school governors, our talented, enthusiastic staff and happy, motivated pupils look forward to welcoming you.
We are looking for a Headteacher who:
- Can demonstrate substantive successful Headship experience in a primary school.
- Has substantial primary teaching experience and is an able and versatile classroom practitioner.
- Demands ambitious standards for all pupils regardless of disadvantage, background or starting point.
- Is prepared to take forward our desire to remain at the forefront of curriculum changes and educational developments.
- Will honour and enrich the ethos and values of the school
What the school offers its staff
Our school offers:
- A welcoming, inclusive, and safe environment
- Diversity of students
- Strong links to the military
- Opportunity for a new headteacher to put their mark on the school
- A chance to help create and shape the vision and ethos and drive rapid improvement for the children
- An enthusiastic, committed hardworking staff team
- Supportive and actively involved governors who are committed to School Improvement
Further details about the role
Application Process:
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed, please contact us to arrange.
For further details and an electronic information pack, please contact the school office by email office.2200@five-acres.oxon.sch.uk.
If you would like to arrange an informal chat with our Chair of Governors, Kevin Moyes - please email him on:chair.2200@five-acres.oxon.sch.uk
We look forward to receiving your application via the applicant tracking system.
Safer Recruitment
Five Acres Primary School and Oxfordshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
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.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Five Acres Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 352 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Five Acres Primary School website
- Email address
- office.2200@five-acres.oxon.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01869253193
Arranging a visit to Five Acres Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office.2200@five-acres.oxon.sch.uk.
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