Headteacher - Full-time

The Stour Academy Trust

• Ref:KCC-F9-5-L
• Posted:26/11/2018
• Pay:£43,034 - £49,937 per annum
• Start Date:May 2019
• App Close Date:06/01/2019 at 12:00
• Interviews:21st and 22nd January 2019

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The Board of Directors are looking to appoint an enthusiastic leader with real drive who supports our culture of collaborative working. As Headteacher of Adisham Church of England Primary School, you will also be a member of the Trust’s Canterbury hub Senior Leadership Team, working alongside other headteachers and senior leaders to share best practice and develop strategies to bring about rapid improvements. This provides opportunities to enhance your own development as a leader, contribute on a wider scale and for further career progression within the Trust.

As a school with only four classes, this post includes a teaching commitment in KS2. The Trust has vast experience in developing and supporting Headteachers, with over 60% of our senior leaders being homegrown. Due to the specialist support provided by the Trust’s Central Team in areas of finance, HR, premises and marketing, the successful candidate will have the envious opportunity to fully utilise their experience and skills to focus on the development of teaching and learning and create an outstanding learning environment for all children.
The ideal candidate will be an outstanding teacher with assistant or deputy head experience, who is looking to progress into the next stage of their career.

For an informal discussion about this role and to arrange a visit to the school, please contact Simon O’Keefe, CEO of The Stour Academy Trust, on 01227 931560. Alternatively, you can email pa@stouracademytrust.org.uk.

Our School and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Information about the trust

Join a supportive and collaborative network of staff at The Stour Academy Trust.

The Stour Academy Trust recognises that our education system needs to quickly and more radically shift to close equity gaps and to better prepare our young people for the 21st century. We are transforming our schools from passive forms of learning focused on direct instruction and memorisation, by moving towards interactive methods that promote the critical and individual thinking needed in today’s innovation-driven economy.

Our pedagogical model combined with the intentional deployment of technology will help us deliver personalised learning in an enabling environment. Technology will accelerate our progress but will not be the driver of our vision.

We aim to nurture a community of learners that challenge thinking, where our staff are empowered to take risks and develop their practice to meet the needs of an evolving school system, which is not held back by traditional restrictions and ideologies.

By limiting routine or unnecessary tasks we allow professionals to focus on learning behaviours and interactions which will promote emotional intelligence and the development of children as life-long, curious learners.

There will be no barriers to achievement within our learning community and our teachers will build strong relationships that facilitate the learning of others. Collaboration will open doors, minds and possibilities and enable individuals to meet their personal goals. .

We are looking for people that:

•Recognise that our current education system needs to radically change to better prepare our young people for the 21st century

•Want to move away from passive forms of learning and move towards interactive teaching methods that promote critical and individual thinking

•Are able to take advantage of the latest technology to deliver personalised learning that is accessible for all children, irrespective of their language skills, reading ability or any other factors that may present learning challenges

•Want to work with other staff as a community of learners that challenge traditional thinking

•Want to develop their own practice to meet the needs of an evolving school system

•Want to develop children as life-long, curious learners

•Want to build strong relationships with children that facilitate their learning

•Want to teach in enabling environments that promote flexibility, collaboration and independence

Job Contact Information

• Name:Rob Butterworth
• Address:Park View,
  Sturry,
  Canterbury,
  Kent,
  CT2 0NR
• Telephone: 01227 931560
• Email: rob.butterworth@stouracademytrust.org.uk

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