Headteacher
Kingsway Primary Academy School, Widnes, Cheshire, WA8 7QS16 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
6 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
29 November 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: Full time.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L14-L21
What skills and experience we're looking for
WPAT is inviting applications for a Headteacher to lead the further development of Kingsway Primary Academy School. We are looking to appoint a committed professional who is an innovative and inspirational leader and highly ambitious for every pupil.
The right candidate will have a natural flair for harnessing team talent and an unwavering commitment to the best possible outcomes and progress for all, regardless of background or ability, to ensure all pupils achieve their full potential in all aspects of their lives.
The successful candidate will bring a strong track record of school improvement and will actively embrace working collaboratively with the Trust, the Local Governing Committee, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), staff, and pupils to develop Kingsway Primary Academy into a truly inspirational and outstanding school.
Please complete the application form below and email to myoung@wpat.uk by midnight on 6 January 2025.
We would also encourage you to have a look around our school by appointment via myoung@wpat.uk
What the school offers its staff
Kingsway joined WPAT in December 2020, when it was known as Simms Cross Primary School. The school consists of classes from Nursery through to Year 6, as well as four thriving Autistic Spectrum Disorder resource bases run on behalf of Halton Borough Council. Since academy conversion, the school has significantly improved in all areas. The quality of education that pupils receive has been transformed to capitalise on pupils’ interests, from our inspiring Nursery to building resilience and unlocking potential for a smooth transition to secondary school at Year 6. Our learning environments have been substantially renovated, and we have invested in our estate to make the school a welcoming, vibrant, and stimulating learning environment where curiosity and creativity thrive. The entire school community and Trust were delighted with the most recent Ofsted inspection, when Kingsway Primary Academy was graded as ‘Good’ in all areas (September 2023). You will be joining our Trust at an exciting part of our journey, where we continue to build on the incredible work in Kingsway and further enhance the capacity and capabilities of our Trust, including opportunities to influence to the teaching profession more widely through WPAT’s Generate Teaching Hub, based at the Kingsway site. As well as a dedicated and passionate staff cohort at Kingsway Primary Academy, you will contribute to and be supported by WPATs central services and network groups, through system leadership of excellence, to empower our school communities. This post will be an extremely rewarding experience for the right candidate. You will influence change across the Trust and its growing community of schools through our wonderful pupils, dedicated and talented staff, a supportive Local Governing Committee and an array of opportunities across the wider WPAT schools and Generate Teaching Hub.
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.
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About Kingsway Primary Academy School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 243 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- myoung@wpat.uk
Arranging a visit to Kingsway Primary Academy School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email myoung@wpat.uk.
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