Headteacher
Gamlingay Village Primary, Sandy, SG19 3HD7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
20 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
6 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £70,292.00 - £81,440.00 Annually (FTE)
Headteacher job summary
We are seeking a committed, passionate and ambitious principal who will lead our school to excellence. The new principal will hold a clear vision, be able to drive up standards and be able to lead with confidence and credibility.
Gamlingay Village Primary is a large primary school which provides a rich, inclusive learning experience for all. As a school we make every effort to provide a broad, ambitious curriculum full of enjoyment and challenge. We aim to provide our children with the knowledge and skills they need to thrive in education and later life.
The school has an enhanced resource base provision, the Cabin, which supports pupils with autism. The school have recently developed a successful pre-school.
In July 2024, the school retained its Good Ofsted judgement, meaning strong foundations are in place for a leader to take the school forward to excellence.
The successful candidate will have experience of leadership in a primary setting and will be able to build upon the success of the school to date. The new principal will have a good understanding of curriculum development and be excited by the opportunity to further develop the school’s offer for all pupils. We are particularly interested in appointing a candidate who is passionate about improving teaching standards.
As part of The Cam Academy Trust, you will be supported and challenged by a Trust team that drives for excellence and believes in investing in and empowering their leaders.
This role is perfect for you if:
- You have a strong track record of leading successful school improvement.
- You are passionate about education and driven to achieve exceptional outcomes, particularly for vulnerable learners.
- You can inspire and motivate others
- You have a good understanding of how to support all learners within the school community.
- You are committed to the safeguarding and well-being of children
- You are a strategic thinker with strong leadership and management skills.
- You are a collaborative leader, who wants to leverage the potential of being part of a strong Trust
- You can work positively with the school community
- You are a champion of high standards
You will be a trust leader as well as a school leader.
As well as leading a great school, the successful candidate will play an important role in our trust. Our heads shape the future development of the trust and contribute to our strategy. We are collaborative and seek to work in meaningful partnership with others. This creates opportunities for our leaders.
Pre-application discussions are welcomed and encouraged. If you would like to find out more about this position, or to arrange a visit, please contact Tania Tull, Trust HR Manager.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone who comes into contact with children and their families have a role to play in safeguarding children.
To fulfil this responsibility at Gamlingay Village Primary, all professionals are trained to ensure their approach is child-centred. No single professional can have a full picture of a child’s needs and circumstances. If children and families are to receive the right help at the right time everyone who comes into contact with them has a role to play in identifying concerns and the sharing of information, on a 'need to know' basis.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Gamlingay Village Primary
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 400 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Gamlingay Village Primary website (opens in new tab)
As a full primary school, we are continually evolving to provide a rich, inclusive and creative learning experience for all. We make every effort to deliver a curriculum full of enjoyment and challenge. We aim to provide our children with the skills and enthusiasm they will need to become lifelong learners. To ensure our children achieve excellence for all,
Our knowledge-rich curriculum enables pupils to learn by making connections with what they already know & build on prior learning. Children have the opportunity to discuss and debate this knowledge and to apply it creatively.
We are proud to have been the first primary phase academy of The Cam Academy Trust when we joined in April 2016. Their support, development opportunities and expertise has already supported the conversion of our school from a First School to a Primary School and will further support on-going changes; ensuring it continues to flourish.
Our school and staff ethos is to do what is best for the children
School location
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