Headteacher
Priestley Primary School, Calne, Wiltshire, SN11 8TG12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
3 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
10 January 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
Pay scale
- L15 - L22 (£70,293 - £83,463)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for an ambitious, approachable, and committed Headteacher, who wants to take a warm, diverse, community-based school from strength to strength.
Strategic direction and development of the school:
- Provide inspiring and purposeful leadership for the staff and pupils.
- To work in partnership with the governing body, staff and parents generating the ethos and values which will underpin the school.
- To translate the educational vision and direction for the school into a Development Plan and implement this successfully to secure continuous school improvement through effective teaching, successful learning and sustainable high standards.
- To monitor and evaluate the performance of the school, respond with appropriate actions, and report to the governing body as required.
- To ensure that management, finances, organisation and administration of the school supports its vision and aims.
- To ensure that school policies and practices take account of national, local and school data and reflect best practice.
- To monitor, evaluate and review the impact of policies, priorities and targets of the school in practice, and take action if necessary.
- To lead by example and model best practice regarding professional conduct, workload and personal development.
- To ensure that all those involved in the school are committed to its aims, motivated to achieve them, and involved in meeting long, medium and short term objectives and targets which secure the educational success of the school.
- Create an outward-facing school which works with other schools and organisations to secure excellent outcomes for pupils.
Teaching and learning:
- Continue to maintain an environment that promotes and secures high standard teaching, effective learning, high standards of achievement, good behaviour and a passion for learning.
- Determine, organise, implement and monitor the curriculum and its assessment and ensure that statutory requirements are met.
- Ensure that pupils develop study skills in order to learn with optimum effectiveness and with increasing independence.
- Monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching and learning and standards of achievement of all pupils in the school through appropriate methods.
- Develop and maintain effective links with the community including business and industry, to extend the curriculum and enhance teaching and learning.
- Continue to maintain an effective partnership with parents and the wider community to support and improve pupils’ achievement and personal development.
- Promote extra-curricular activities in accordance with the educational aims of the school.
- Provide a safe, calm and well-ordered environment for all pupils and staff, focused on safeguarding pupils and developing exemplary behaviour.
- Communicate the school’s vision compellingly and drive strategic leadership.
- Seek training and continuing professional development to meet own needs.
What the school offers its staff
A particular strength of the school is its spacious grounds that allow for three playgrounds and extensive grassy areas which we have worked hard to landscape so we can best support all aspects of the children’s learning with a wildlife area, dedicated outside teaching spaces, a range of fixed large play equipment and extensive areas to run and play.
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
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About Priestley Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 283 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Priestley Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- SchoolBulletin@wiltshire.gov.uk
Priestley Primary School is a located in the town of Calne. We currently have 282 pupils on roll.
Our aim at Priestley is to help create communicative, competent, confident young people who are more than ready for the next challenge in their educational journey. Whilst we are committed to academic standards to ensure children have better life chances, we also feel that it is vitally important not to lose sight of the child as an individual, so foster social learning and develop children’s interests by providing opportunities and experiences.
Arranging a visit to Priestley Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email SchoolBulletin@wiltshire.gov.uk.
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