Trust Leader for Early Years
Lakeside Primary Academy, Derby, DE24 8UY8 days remaining to apply
Closing date
23 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Full Time 32.5 Hours, 52 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Range 7 – 12, £57,831 - £65,286
What skills and experience we're looking for
The candidate should have strong experience of ensuring effective provision in the EYFS including continuous provision indoors and outdoors, ensuring excellence in teaching and learning and curriculum development. They should have a strong subject knowledge of early childhood development and how children learn in their early stages. They should be able to apply the pedagogical approaches and strategies needed to ensure children get off to the best possible start. Strong knowledge of Early Literacy in EYFS and KS1 is essential. The candidate should also be experienced in supporting and developing others at all stages of their career within and beyond their own school/academy.
The successful candidate will:
- be an outstanding leader and Early Years practitioner with expert professional knowledge
- have experience of successful senior leadership in one or more schools
- have high expectations of achievement, attainment and behaviour
- lead by example, inspiring and motivating children and colleagues
- support the Trust in developing provision for all pupils
- have very effective mentoring & modelling skills.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- the opportunity to be part of our team, who are committed to educational excellence
- friendly and supportive staff, parents and trustees,
- a commitment to high quality professional development,
- opportunity for future career development & progression within the Trust’s portfolio of schools and most importantly
- the chance to transform the lives of children and really make a difference
Commitment to safeguarding
The Harmony Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all our staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS and pre-employment checks.
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About Lakeside Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 638 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Lakeside Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- derbyrecruitment@theharmonytrust.org
Lakeside's History
Lakeside Community Primary School, formed in September 2004 after the amalgamation of Southgate Infant & Nursery School and Wilmorton Community Primary School. In January 2019 we joined the Harmony Trust to become Lakeside Primary Academy.
Our Academy caters for children aged between 3-11 and we currently provide for around 675 learners and their families.
Our beautiful modern school has four phases, each phase has a leader and its own team of excellent staff who in turn are assisted by fantastic office staff and a kitchen and facilities management team who help us to avoid hunger, stay warm and have a clean place to learn!
Early Years Foundation Stage (3-5 years) Nursery and Reception
Key Stage 1 (5-7 years) – Year 1 & Year 2
Lower Key Stage 2 (7-9 years) – Year 3 & Year 4
Upper Key Stage 2 (9-11 years) – Year 5 & Year 6
The whole school is housed in a state of the art building completed July 2006 on the busy A6. We have a large playing field, extensive play space around the school, Sensory Room and Learning Zone, which houses our Computing Suite and Library. The building is an imaginative design built as part of a Private Funding Initiative (PFI) project with the facilities management being undertaken by Vinci Partnerships.
The Alvaston Children’s Centre is located on the London Road side of the school site. This facility is available to all families in the area, not just the families of children who come to the school and looks to provide a range of services for children between 0 and 7 and their families. Information leaflets are produced by the Children’s Centre advertising the activities and services they offer, we regularly send this out to all our families. For any other information please pop in to see them.
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