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Deputy Headteacher
Full Time / Permanent
Starting April 2025
Our aspirational and diverse community is seeking an engaging and ambitious Deputy Headteacher to lead curriculum, teaching and learning development for our children. A 'good' school (Ofsted November 2023), which is an IQM Centre of Excellence (May 2024), we are committed to growing people, to achieve the best for every child, enabling excellent progress for all.
We will offer:
- A community of children who value the support we give
- A team that strives for high outcomes for all
- A network of practitioners within our partnership
- Opportunities for professional development and advancement
- A non-teaching position with full time leadership responsibility.
We seek:
- A passionate, ambitious and optimistic mindset
- Highly effective knowledge and skill in leading and developing people
- High quality relationships with children, colleagues, families and other stakeholders
- Integrity, resilience, selflessness, honesty, openness and objectivity.
If you are interested in knowing more about this position, and would like to visit our school, please contact us at team@stgeorgesschool.org to arrange a tour.
Salary: Leadership Scale L13-L17 (any current advancement on this scale honoured).
Closing Date: Friday 17th January 2025 at noon
Interview Date: Monday 27th January 2025
Information about the School
We are passionate about our school. Why? … you ask.
It’s simple really. St. George’s School is at the heart our community. It is a well-established school with a sense of pride, community spirit and values. It is also a school which is proud to be pushing forward; developing increasingly effective teaching and learning strategies that support all of our children … a truly inclusive place to be.
We are focused on improving many aspects of school life. We promote a love of reading for all children, grow skilled writers and mathematicians and support children effectively in both their learning and well-being. We aim to provide an engaging curriculum for all our young learners through interest, breadth and depth, and offer excellent facilities.
Our school is one that has been on an exciting journey of development. Formed from previous separate infant and junior schools in 2021, our newly formed primary school serves the community of New Town and beyond, and is committed to be inclusive of all.
Many of our classrooms are newly refurbished and are lovely places to teach and learn. With capacity for 680 children, including our own nursery, we are one of the largest primary settings in the area, and provide a true team ethos in which to grow professionally.
However, we still have much to do and believe that, by working in partnership to achieve a common purpose, we can continue to provide a school that is at the cutting edge of educational practice. We are graded 'Good' by Ofsted (2023) and are an Inclusion Quality Mark Centre of Excellence. In the last available value added benchmarks we were one of the highest rated schools in the locality.
We know that success is drawn from professional cooperation and partnership. We are therefore trustees of the Child First Trust, participants in Partners in Excellence (PiXL) and active members of a local schools’ partnership, newly launched in April this year. These networks enable teachers and leaders to learn from each other, and provide mutual support across schools. We encourage our teachers to develop themselves further through national qualifications, and give them a real and meaningful voice in the advancement of our practice and curriculum offer. Professionally, it is a great place to be.
So, as you can see, we really are passionate about our school and recognise that through enabling inspirational teaching, learning and leadership, we will set the school well on the way to improving further still.
The Headteacher and Governing Body