Head
Wycombe Abbey
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2019 or January 2020
- Apply by:
- 27 August 2018
Job overview
Wycombe Abbey is renowned nationally and internationally as one of the world’s leading boarding schools. Known for its academic pre-eminence as well as strong pastoral care and fabulous extracurricular and co-curricular programmes, this HMC and GSA school sets the agenda for the best in education. With 170 acres of beautiful parkland, the school is set on the edge of High Wycombe and attracts its 630 pupils from the UK and across the world. The global dimension is strengthened further by Wycombe Abbey International.
Following Rhiannon Wilkinson’s highly successful tenure as Head, the Council of Wycombe Abbey seek an outstanding individual to take the school forward. The successful candidate will have a strong academic background, a passion for education and the best of educational innovation, the ability to be an advocate for the many benefits of boarding and a commitment to holistic education and promoting the wellbeing of young people. The next Head will be a person with warmth, humour, resilience, the ability to inspire and motivate staff and pupils and to win the trust and confidence of all stakeholders.
Potential candidates wishing to discuss the post are invited to contact:
Claire Oulton - claireoulton@rsacademics.co.uk / 07738 737482
Holly Fitzgerald - hollyfitzgerald@rsacademics.co.uk / 07801 522913
Further information can be downloaded from rsacademics.co.uk
Closing date: 10.00am on 28th August 2018.Wycombe Abbey is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
About Wycombe Abbey
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Wycombe Abbey is committed to maintaining full boarding for the needs of modern families. Girls who enter the school at 11+ have their own Junior Boarding House. From the age of 11 to 18, pupils live in nine mixed-age Senior Houses, and in the Upper Sixth girls move into Clarence House, a purpose-built study-bedroom complex.
Many co-curricular and enrichment opportunities are on offer for girls across the age range. Our sports teams regularly reach national finals and the sports department offers more than 30 sports on a consistent basis. Our music department teaches more than 600 individual lessons a week and nearly every pupil plays an instrument if not two. The drama provision is equally impressive with numerous productions happening annually.
The School is ideally located to be able to enjoy a wide variety of activities with other independent schools including Eton, Harrow and Radley. The boys join the girls for dinners and dances. We also enjoy close relationships with the two boys’ grammar schools in High Wycombe, with our pupils and theirs co-operating in choirs, an annual Management Conference and other social and academic events.
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