Junior School Assistant Head - Academic
Bromley High School
Bromley
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary plus benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required from Summer Term 2021
- Apply by:
- 3 December 2020
Job overview
Bromley High School have an opportunity for an ambitious and innovative teacher to play a key role championing and developing an inspirational and innovative curriculum across all areas of the Junior School.
You will be joining at what is an exciting time in the history of the Junior School. A £6 million investment has created outstanding new learning spaces and you will have the opportunity to design and implement an inspirational 21st century primary curriculum, which explores the possibilities of these state-of-the-art facilities.
Working closely with the Head of Junior School and Junior Leadership Team to generate and deliver the academic vision and direction of the School, your key responsibilities will include:
• Translating the vision for the School into agreed objectives and operational and strategic plans
• Taking lead responsibility for policy development and implementation in the following areas: learning, teaching, curriculum and innovation
• Ensuring innovation and outstanding practice in teaching and learning
You will also line manage some teaching staff and subject coordinators and be a form teacher where appropriate and be responsible for timetabling the Junior School curriculum and overseeing the planning and effective delivery of our extra-curricular and curriculum enrichment programmes.
Substantial and successful experience of curriculum leadership, strategic planning and curriculum evaluation is essential, as is excellent knowledge and understanding of the latest developments in pedagogy, educational policy and best practice.
If you can lead by example and provide inspiration and motivation, we would be delighted to hear from you.
About Bromley High School
Bromley High School is a consistently oversubscribed, academically selective girls’ school with 900 pupils from 4-18, occupying a 25-acre parkland site in leafy Bickley, in Kent. The School enjoys an excellent reputation and in 2018 celebrated another year of outstanding academic achievement.
As part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
• Access to extensive professional development opportunities
• Training grants for qualifications
• Generous pension schemes
• Free life assurance benefit
• A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
• Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
• A Cycle to Work scheme
• Competitive terms and conditions of employment
• Access to school multi-gym, swimming pool, yoga classes
For further details and to apply please click the apply button.
Applications must be received by 8.00am on Thursday 3rd December 2020.
Interviews will take place on Wednesday 9th December 2020.
Bromley High School and the GDST are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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About Bromley High School
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Bromley High School has been offering an exceptional education to bright and talented girls since 1883.
A leading GDST and HMC girls’ school with superb facilities spread across a leafy 25-acre site, Bromley High School educates approximately 870 girls from pre-prep to Sixth Form.
The school’s academic results are consistently excellent earning a rare ‘Exceptional’ rating for Learning and Achievement from the Independent Schools’ Inspectorate. Achievement at A-level in 2022 was 34% A*s, 68% A*-A and 91% A*-B.
Bromley High girls are resilient and well-rounded young women participating with enthusiasm and commitment in music, drama, art, sport, Duke of Edinburgh and an overabundant range of activities – and where they have interest or talent or enthusiasm, it is nurtured so that they learn to excel.
As the first all girls’ All-Steinway School in the world, the school continually invests in the music department, and offers its own Musician in Residence and specialist music wing. In 2020, the school launched a Steinway Scholarship and Mentoring Scheme offer the winning recipient coaching sessions throughout the year, a masterclass from a Steinway artist at Steinway Hall, private lessons with a Steinway artist and a solo recital at Steinway Hall. In 2021, the school’s first ever Steinway Scholar won a place to read Music at Oxford.
Sport is also exceptional: with 25 acres of top class facilities including a beautiful pool, new fitness suite, sports hall, gym, track and floodlit courts and pitches, providing the perfect environment in which to develop girls’ love of sport. Bromley High School has achieved huge successes in sport at regional and national level. The school’s under 16 team reached the National Hockey finals and were placed 3rd in the country and in 2021, Year 12 pupil Evie Davis won two gold medals with Team GB at the European Swimming Championships.
Pastoral Care is of paramount importance at Bromley High and the school offers an outstanding supportive and caring pastoral system. In 2021, the excellence of the school’s pastoral care was recognised by the Wellbeing Award for Schools.
Bromley High School provides a beautiful and vibrant environment where bright girls flourish.
The Girls’ Day School Trust
The GDST is the leading network of independent girls’ schools in the UK, with nearly 4,000 staff and 20,000 students in our 24 schools and two academies. The majority of GDST schools take girls all through, from the age of three to 18 (there are about 6,000 pupils in GDST Junior schools).
Founded in 1872, the GDST has a long history of pioneering innovation in the education of girls, and is the largest single educator of girls in the UK (and the UK’s largest educational charity).
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