Deputy Head
Thetford Grammar School
Thetford, Norfolk
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January or April
- Apply by:
- 24 September 2018
Job overview
Deputy Head
Thetford Grammar School, Norfolk
Thetford Grammar School is proud of its history as a seat of learning stretching back over 1400 years. Today, we are a 3-18 school that achieves excellent outcomes for pupils at every stage of education. We have begun an ambitious programme of growth, nationally and internationally, carefully designed to ensure we retain close relationships with pupils and parents as well as the strong sense of family and belonging that defines the TGS experience from nursery to sixth form.
Our ultimate aim is to develop the girls and boys in our care into young women and men capable of fulfilling their immense potential. Pupils that come through our school consistently achieve outstanding GCSE and A level results and go on to the places at some of the world's best universities, including Oxford and Cambridge entrance rates significantly above local and national trends.
Thetford Grammar School is seeking to appoint as Deputy Head an individual with a proven track record of managing change and delivering excellent outcomes across the 3-18 age range. This is a whole school, sole Deputy position with candidates from junior and senior school backgrounds warmly welcome to apply.
Our next Deputy Head will be highly adaptable, pragmatic and capable of motivating and guiding colleagues as well as having good commercial understanding of the sector. The role will be a challenging and busy one, and the successful candidate will demand high standards of themselves and others. They will have the full support of the Head and will work with a passionate and talented staff body, as well as the Directors and Governors, to realise Thetford Grammar School’s vision for the future.
The Deputy Head will teach a reduced timetable to be agreed based upon their stage or subject specialism. Qualified applicants from all subject backgrounds will be considered.
Please see attached job description and welcome letter from the Head. Please contact scsec@thetgram.norfolk.sch.uk for further details.
Closing date: Noon, Tuesday 25th September 2018.
Interviews will take place: w/c Monday 8 and Monday 15 October 2018.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and all successful applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate for the post, including checks with any past employer and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Thetford Grammar School is an equal opportunities employer.
Attached documents
About Thetford Grammar School
Thetford Grammar School is an independent co-educational day school in Thetford, Norfolk, with some 300 pupils aged from 3-19 coming from feeder schools across Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.
Celebrating its 900th anniversary in 2014, the school is one of the oldest in England. It was a state grammar school until it became independent in 1981. The school occupies two sites in the centre of the town. Some buildings date back to Tudor times, others are brand new,and despite being a relatively small school, it offers a wide range of facilities.
Head
Mrs Amanda Faye
Values and vision
While taking pride in its 900 years of educating local children, Thetford Grammar School dedicates itself to preparing pupils for the fast moving, ever changing world they will enter on leaving. Its chief aim is to develop the whole child within an inclusive school community. The core value is to ensure the creative growth of every individual in all areas: academic, physical, emotional, cultural and social.
There are over 20 AS- and A-level subjects on offer in the schools sixth form.
ISI
"The school fulfils its aims; it is an inclusive family community which develops the whole pupil and ensures that all are known as individuals. Pupils are very aware of the needs of those who are less fortunate and engage in many charitable fund-raising activities...They have a very positive attitude to learning and work well individually and with one another. They develop into caring and responsible young people.”
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