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Primary - Head of School
St Peter's School
Bournemouth, Dorset
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Range 14-19
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 14 January 2018
Job overview
Are you a serving headteacher or deputy, with a passion for learning and a vision for a holistic all-through curriculum? Would you like to work with a strong team to further develop our new Primary phase?
St Peter’s Catholic School in Bournemouth is an all-through school ,currently with two classes in each year from Reception to Year 3, plus an eight form Secondary phase from Year 7 to Year 13. We will continue to grow each year to become an all-through 4 -18 school by 2020.
We are looking to appoint a ‘Head of Primary Phase’ to start in September 2018. From that time the appointed person will recruit staff and further develop the curriculum along with the current Senior Leadership Team, under the line management of the Headteacher. The Primary Phase was awarded Outstanding by Ofsted as part of the All through Report in September 2017.
St Peter’s is a split site school and the Primary site, which is three miles away from the Secondary phase, has great facilities within a large open campus.
St Peter’s School has a celebrated reputation in the local community and is always over-subscribed. There are strong links with our partner Catholic primary schools. St Peter’s School is an Academy under the joint trusteeship of the Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth and the De La Salle Order.
We are a flourishing Catholic School, delightfully situated on the Dorset Coast with ready access to the New Forest, both areas rich with opportunities for outdoor pursuits.
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About St Peter's School
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St Peter’s is an exceptional, oversubscribed Catholic school in Dorset on the South Coast of England close to Bournemouth Town.
The area is famous for its miles of sandy beaches which provide opportunities for water sports and beach activities. Bournemouth itself has a vibrant, cosmopolitan centre which attracts over 5 million visitors annually. The area offers plentiful choice of restaurants/cafes, theatres, comedy clubs, music venues and outdoor or indoor activities for both children and adults alike. There is also easy access to the beautiful and historic New Forest and the ‘Jurassic’ coast.
St Peter’s Catholic School is an ‘all-through’ Academy which, by 2020, will educate over 2,000 young people between the ages of 5 and 18. The school has two sites: our Primary Phase is located at Iford and the site for Years 7 to 13 which overlooks the coast at Southbourne.
St Peter’s is a school with a strong tradition of success, oversubscribed and benefitting from a deservedly positive reputation in the local community. Relationships with families are affirming and constructive, with parents and carers keen to support the school and their children’s learning. Approval ratings are very high.
We are not a complacent community; all staff are keen to learn and improve, developing pedagogy through research, shared practice and innovation. Our relentless focus on strengthening pedagogy has resulted in improving progress measures for all students at every key stage. Our progress scores are either above or, in most cases, significantly above the national average.
St Peter’s seeks individuals who are committed to:
- comprehensive and inclusive education
- developing their practice through collaboration with colleagues
- delivering the best possible progress for all, by having the highest expectations
Our most recent Ofsted report graded the school as ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for EYFS and for Personal Development, Behaviour and Wellbeing.
We seek to appoint staff who are comfortable with the Catholic ethos of the school and able to support our core values. We are looking for teachers who have a clear pastoral commitment, are able to get to know their pupils quickly and tailor teaching to meet their needs. The strong Christian ethos underpins all we do. We are an Academy jointly sponsored by the Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth and the De La Salle Order – an international organisation which has been running schools for over 350 years.
The school opened in 1936 as a Boys’ Independent Boarding School, combining with two other local schools in 1980 to become a co-educational comprehensive school.
St Peter’s was once a specialist performing arts and sports college (when such things existed) and became an elective academy in 2011. With the growth in birth rate, St Peter’s was approached in 2012 to open a two-form primary phase and in 2014 we welcomed our first 60 Reception children. Each year we will accept another cohort until we grow to reach the full complement of primary pupils. If you are passionate about teaching and learning we would love to welcome you to join us for the next chapter of the St Peter’s story
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