Headteacher
Green Ridge Primary Academy, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP18 0YAThis job expired on 3 June 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
3 June 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
8 May 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
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L25 - L31
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Role:
As our school expands to a three-form entry, we are seeking a dynamic and inspirational leader to join our team. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of excellence in educational leadership, with experience in managing highly effective teams. You will be committed to providing every child with an exceptional educational offer, ensuring they are supported, challenged, and inspired to reach their full potential.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, motivate, and inspire a dedicated team of educators
- Drive excellence in teaching and learning
- Foster strong relationships with parents and the wider community
- Ensure the delivery of an exciting, broad, and engaging curriculum
- Uphold and promote our core values: Honesty, Friendship, Forgiveness, Responsibility, Gratitude, and Respect
Requirements:
- Proven track record of excellence in educational leadership
- Experience in managing highly effective teams
- Commitment to providing exceptional educational opportunities for all children
- Relational and proactive approach with parents and the community
- Ability to inspire, challenge, and motivate
To arrange an informal discussion please contact Jenny Redgrove, Deputy Director of Education using jenny.redgrove@reach2.org
At Green Ridge, we rightly pride ourselves on the high expectations we place on the academic achievements and behaviour of all children, whatever their need, as well as a broad, diverse, and engaging creative curriculum which will underpin all that we do. Green Ridge is an inclusive setting, valuing all children’s achievements and ensuring that each child is given every opportunity to meet their full potential. There is no doubt that Green Ridge is an exciting place to be – for children, staff, parents, and the local community! Our applications for school places each year places us in one of the most over-subscribed schools within Aylesbury, typically with over 180 applications for just 60 places. We know parents and carers want their child to join us because of the fantastic opportunities their children have whilst at Green Ridge, the exceptional teaching and our commitment to being an inclusive setting for all. Over the last year, the academy has provided professional development to all staff about trauma and attachment, and we are being accredited as a ‘Thrive’ school, so that our guiding principles for supporting children and their behaviour is rooted in a therapeutic way, which takes into account the whole child and their experiences.
What the school offers its staff
- A firm commitment to you and your professional development
- Friendly, supportive, enthusiastic and hardworking colleagues, staff and Governors
- A growing learning community
- Encouragement to develop new ideas and the opportunity to make a real difference
- Coaching and mentoring from the academy’s Headteacher
- The chance to be part of the largest primary only Multi Academy Trust, which offers fantastic trust wide CPD opportunities
- A wide range of professional development opportunities and the opportunity to work with some of the best educational professionals in the country
- Membership of the Teacher’s Pension Scheme TPS,
- Relocation Packages: If you’re relocating for work, we offer relocation packages of up-to £8,000 to ease the transition. From moving expenses to settling into a new area, we’ve got you covered.
Further details about the role
Commitment to safeguarding
At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Green Ridge Primary Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 527 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Green Ridge Primary Academy website
- Email address
- office@greenridgeacademy.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01296326320
Green Ridge Academy is a new primary school built on Berryfields, which opened in September 2017 in temporary accommodation on the site of the permanent building. The permanent school building opened in September 2018. In September 2023, the academy will be two-form entry from Nursery through to Year Six, taking children from aged 2-11, with two bulge classes in YR and Y1 as we continue our preparations to become a 3-form entry school. Whilst the school currently has the capacity for over 450 children, this is an exciting time at Green Ridge, as we continue to grow our site is being expanded with the additional capacity so that by September 2024, our building will be able to accommodate over 650 children. Exciting!
Arranging a visit to Green Ridge Primary Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@greenridgeacademy.co.uk.
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