Deputy Headteacher
Icknield High School
Luton
- Expired
- Salary:
- Salary range L23-28
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required for September 2018
- Apply by:
- 18 April 2018
Job overview
‘Turn Vision into Reality’
Deputy Headteacher
Required for September 2018
Salary range L23-28.
Due to promotion of the current post holder, Icknield High School is seeking to appoint an inspirational and exceptional Deputy Head Teacher to lead on Curriculum and Achievement.
Our school is a high performing multi-cultural 11-16 comprehensive (1450 students) with Academy status, situated in pleasant grounds on the northern outskirts of town, with excellent transport links by both road and rail to London. We are justifiably proud of our excellent reputation and believe that we offer both students and staff a caring environment in which they can succeed. We are looking for a creative and dynamic practitioner who will be able to contribute to and help drive forward our agenda of continuous improvement.
Successful candidates will demonstrate:
- Achievement of excellence in learning
- Unrelentingly ambition for the school, its staff and students
- Ability to develop clear vision and strategies for the future
- Collaborative leadership approach through excellent interpersonal skills
- Proven experience in the leadership of whole school change
- Commitment to a high expectations’ culture
Join our team and help us realise our aim: Raising the Achievement of All.
Please contact Janet Giles, Office Manager, for an application pack. Requests for application packs during the Easter holidays will be processed in the week beginning 9th April.
Visits to the school are most welcome and the available dates are Monday 26th March – Wednesday 28th March and Tuesday 17th – Wednesday 19th April. Visits should be arranged via the Office Manager.
Closing date: Thursday 19th April at 12.00 noon.
Interviews will be held in the week commencing 23rd April 2018.
About Icknield High School
Located in the city of Luton, Bedfordshire, Icknield High School is a secondary academy, with a specialist status in art. Although the school has no sixth form, it has around 1400 pupils aged 11-16 in a co-educational setting, making it considerably larger than the average school of its type. Icknield School has an extremely culturally diverse catchment area, a fact reflected in the school’s student intake. Although the vast majority of teaching take place in school, a small number of students do make use of local off-site provision for particular subjects or needs.
Headteacher
John Noble
Values and Vision
Icknield School encapsulated its vision and ethos in its maxim, “Icknield Cares”. The school, strives to Celebrate, both the uniqueness of the school and its pupils; Achieve, helping each student reach their potential; Respect, for all faiths and cultures represented at the school; Enjoy, both their learning and their time outside the classroom; and finally Support, ensuring that students are properly guided through their academic studies. The school takes great pride in its diversity, and goes far to stress the importance of British values such as tolerance and mutual respect, among others.
Ofsted
“Parents, staff and pupils speak highly of the school’s work to develop pupils’ confidence and promote their well-being. This is supported by the positive comments received, particularly the views expressed in Ofsted’s online questionnaire to parents. Parents praise the way the school knows its pupils. One parent wrote, ‘They are not faces among the crowd, but individuals who are listened to.’”
The full report into Icknield High School can be found here.
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