Deputy Headteacher
Prendergast School
Lewisham
- Expired
- Salary:
- Inner London Leadership Scale L22 – L26
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1 September 2019
- Apply by:
- 26 February 2019
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint an experienced teacher to the post of Deputy Headteacher from September 2019. The postholder will be responsible for the Quality of Education across the whole school. They will also have strategic leadership and management of Key Stage 5. A key priority of this role will be to increase the size of the sixth form and make it the destination of choice for students from the Federation and the wider community.
As a member of SLT, the Deputy Headteacher will play an important role in the overall leadership and management of the school. In particular, you will work closely alongside the Headteacher to lead and develop an outstanding, inclusive, comprehensive education that serves the local community.
The successful candidate will have:
• the knowledge and skills to lead on the management and development of Key Stage 5;
• experience of developing teaching, learning and assessment at a whole school level;
• a track record of outstanding teaching and improving results;
• significant relevant experience of contributing to whole school issues;
• proven ability and enthusiasm to motivate students and staff;
• the ability to raise expectations and aspirations of students of all.
You will share our ethos that disadvantage should not be a barrier to academic achievement and success for all.
Prendergast School is an Outstanding 11-16 Girls School with a mixed 6th Form of 330 and benefits from being part of the Leathersellers’ Federation of Schools. It is one of the most successful schools in Lewisham. Awarded its third Outstanding OFSTED grading in a row in November 2013, the school has been leading girls’ education in Lewisham for over 125 years.
The school is part of the Leathersellers’ Federation of Schools; you will have the opportunity to work with a forward thinking school leadership team, and access to a rich and varied CPD programme within the school and across the federation.
Visits to the school are welcome please contact Fiona Fuller, Acting PA to Headteacher to arrange via email ffuller.PS@lsfed.com or telephone 020 8690 3710 ext: 603039.
To apply for this post please click here .
Closing Date: 9.30am on Tuesday 26 February 2019
Interviews: 1 and 4 March 2019
Please note CVs are not accepted.
The Leathersellers’ Federation of Schools is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and all employees are required to have an Enhanced DBS Disclosure.
Appointment will be subject to qualifications, experience checks and satisfactory references.
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About Prendergast School
- Prendergast School
- Hilly Fields, Adelaide Avenue, Brockley
- London
- SE4 1LE
- United Kingdom
Welcome to Prendergast School. It is an honour and a privilege to be Prendergast School’s eleventh Headteacher and to work with staff, students and families. Staff here are passionate about ensuring the very best opportunities and education for all students. Our motto and ethos is ‘Truth, Honour, Freedom and Courtesy.’ We are all on the same side, working to support all students to excel. We take pride in building strong relationships with students and their families.
We have a long history of providing exceptional education to young people. We were founded in 1880 as Prendergast Grammar School for Girls on a site in Catford provided by the Leathersellers’ Company, which then funded the school’s move to its current site in 1995.
We are now part of the Leathersellers’ Federation of schools, a group of three secondary and two primary schools as well as Prendergast 6th Form. We are very fortunate to be part of the Federation and receive a lot of support from the Leathersellers’ Company, that helps our students succeed.
We are very proud of our last Ofsted judgement of Outstanding in all areas, our third Outstanding judgement in a row. We are described in the most recent report as ‘exceptional’ and having ‘exemplary attitudes to learning’ across the school. We do achieve great academic results at Prendergast School (more information is on the website).
We value our talented and hardworking employees and know that in order to continue to succeed in our aims it is essential for us to support and develop them and ensure we continue to be a great place to work.
With this in mind we offer a number of employee benefits.
Kelly Lovegrove
Headteacher
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