Headteacher
Lime Academy Watergall
Peterborough
- Expired
- Salary:
- L20 - L26
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April 2018
- Apply by:
- 24 January 2018
Job overview
Aiming High, Including All
Are you looking for your next challenge? Would you like the opportunity to make a positive impact and lead colleagues to make rapid and sustained school improvement?
Lime Academy Watergall is an inclusive, diverse 2-form entry Primary School in Bretton, Peterborough. Our children are happy and have a genuine enjoyment and enthusiasm for learning. Our EYFS provision is strong and we have parents and carers that support the children and academy well.
We offer an exciting curriculum aiming to prepare and develop children’s academic, social and emotional skills, in order that they will achieve their potential in life. Recent developments have seen us build on our partnership with Apple, with a clear vision developed to deliver one-to-one iPad in years 5 and 6, with shared iPad in years 1-4.
We are at the beginning of our journey of transformation having recently converted to being an academy within the Lime Trust. Lime Trust is a small but expanding multi-academy trust built around our ethos of putting the child first. We are committed to supporting and developing ambitious young leaders and provide outstanding CPD opportunities for all our staff.
We are excited about the future and are looking to appoint an inspirational Headteacher, with experience of school improvement, to lead a new senior team and the existing staff at Lime Academy Watergall. You will have the space to lead from the front and bring innovation and energy as we drive towards Good or Outstanding.
Visits prior to application are warmly welcomed. For a confidential discussion, to request an application pack or to book a visit, please contact Jo Grabowska on 020 3194 3085 or email joanna.grabowska@tes.com
Closing date:9am 24th January 2018
Shortlisting:25th January 2018
Interviews:30/31st January 2018
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment.
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About Lime Academy Watergall
- Lime Academy Watergall
- Watergall, Bretton, Peterborough
- Cambridgeshire
- PE3 8NX
- United Kingdom
Lime Trust is a Multi Academy Trust formed of 8 schools over 10 locations across Peterborough and the London Boroughs of Havering and Waltham Forest. We have grown to include four primary schools and four all-through special schools, with 2400 pupils and over 700 employees. In our academies we strive to ensure:
· Learners are safe and enjoy learning
· Everyone feels included, respected, and valued
· An ambitious curriculum develops our learners for the challenges of life and adulthood
· Employee potential is recognised and invested in
Putting Learners First is the Trust’s vision. We do this by providing high quality education for pupils through school-to-school collaboration, Trust direction, high challenge and high support. Our values of Respect, Equity, Self-worth, Partnership, Enjoyment, Communication and Trust are core to all we do
LIME Trust Vision & Values
Putting Learners First is our Trust vision.
We aim to create a nurturing and supportive learning environment for all, encouraging our learners to achieve academic excellence and reach their full potential. We set high expectations and build capacity-rich schools through facilitating school-to-school collaboration. The high challenge we put forward is met with equally high support from our team of education experts, so we continue to improve our children’s lives and futures – especially for disadvantaged pupils.
Our values are based on R.E.S.P.E.C.T. which means we believe that:
Respect is built on unconditional positive regard for all learners, all employees, and our wider communities.
Equity enables everyone to be treated as individuals. It removes barriers, provides opportunity and celebrates difference.
Self-worth creates a culture where all learners, all employees and our wider community have pride in their contributions and feel confident and valued.
Partnership is working together for the common good, ensuring that our learners are at the heart of all that we do.
Enjoyment is feeling happy, safe and motivated to make a positive contribution.
Communication provides a voice for all, creating a shared understanding through dialogue.
Trust is a partnership which requires us to act with integrity. Be brave, honest and kind.
Top 5 reasons for working for Lime Trust
- The Trust is committed to our vision and values as above which are always incorporated in everything the Trusts achieves.
- Reduced workload for teachers as planning days are arranged half termly for all year groups collectively across all schools.
- Enhanced benefits for both teachers and support staff
- CPD and career pathways which enhances career progression across the Trust
- Wellbeing is at the forefront for both leaners and employees.
- The Trust is committed to our vision and values as above and are always at the heart of the direction of the Trust growth plan.
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