Assistant Head Teacher - Student Progress
Sir Roger Manwood's School
Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- L12-16
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 28 April 2025
Job overview
We are looking for an excellent leader and classroom teacher with a track record of improving outcomes, impressive analytical skills that can identify capacity for progress and the ability to work with colleagues to create data-led high-impact strategy that raises standards and accelerates students’ progress to enable them to achieve their potential.
An outward-facing, proactive approach is required for this role and the successful candidate will be an excellent communicator to confidently work with staff, students and families in identifying where targeted support is needed. You will have an unstinting belief that every young person can make and sustain exceptional progress and that our purpose is to make positive differences to the lives of our students.
SRMS is a great place to work and teach – it is a friendly, dynamic school where both staff and students thrive because they are highly valued. Our students are bright, able and eager to learn, and due to our environment of excellent behaviour, teachers are able to teach their subjects to a high level. We are preparing to embark on a new strategic development plan for the school, which values a rounded education that not only delivers outstanding academic outcomes but also encourages participation in the wider life of the school and development of skills for life, including leadership, collaboration and independence.
SRMS is a mixed grammar school that was graded Good in all categories by Ofsted in September 2022.
Please note the School does not offer sponsorship for overseas applicants who require it for employment in the UK.
Please note that all references will be taken up before interview as per our Safer Recruitment Policy
For further details and a downloadable application form please visit the
vacancies section of the school website (www.manwoods.co.uk) or contact the
Head’s PA, Mrs Robinson, on head@srms.kent.sch.uk or 01304 610206. Any offer of employment will be subject to receipt of two satisfactory references and a DBS Enhanced Disclosure.
CLOSING DATE: strictly noon on Monday 28th April
INTERVIEWS: the school reserves the right to interview as applications are received
SHORTLISTING: Only candidates who are shortlisted will be contacted
Sir Roger Manwood’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Due to its Safer Recruitment Policy, the School will take up references before interview.
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About Sir Roger Manwood's School
The School was established in 1563 by Sir Roger Manwood in order to educate boys of Sandwich. The original school building still stands but as you may imagine a great deal has changed over the years. The School moved from its original small site in the middle of Sandwich to its present large and leafy site on the outskirts of town in 1895 and has grown from a one form entry, boys school to now being a five form entry, mixed school of over 1000 young people.
The School has a tangible warm, friendly atmosphere and is renowned locally for the care, guidance and support it offers its students. We are proud of our reputation for being an inclusive and welcoming school and strive to focus just as much on the development of the whole person as well as on academic progress.
We offer over 20 subjects at GCSE and Advanced Level and our examination results are consistently of a very high standard. The vast majority of our sixth formers go on to university; most progress to their first choice destination and a high percentage undertake courses at the most highly regarded and competitive universities.
Extra-curricular opportunities at the school are many and varied, and they form a particularly striking feature of school life. As well as the wide array of weekly clubs and societies, there are also many international ties. These include the following annual trips:
- sixth formers to our partner schools in The Gambia and India;
- French taking Y7 to Lille and Y8 to Boulogne on day trips and Y10 on a week-long residential to Paris;
- Spanish taking Y10 to Barcelona;
- Geography taking Y10 to Naples and Y12 to Switzerland;
- History and Politics taking Y11 to Berlin;
- the Combined Cadet Force organising several weekend camps in the local area as well as a summer camp each July;
- a cross-year ski trip to Austria each Easter.
In addition, staff often organise one-off trips to overseas locations. Recent examples include Vietnam (World Challenge), Borneo (Biology) and Sri Lanka (Sports).
The School is particularly proud of the very large numbers that enrol and complete the Duke of Edinburgh Award each year - over 90 at Bronze, 40 at Silver and 25 at Gold.
Our sports teams often progress to the final stages of competitions and many individual boys and girls represent the county, region or even country in sports as varied as athletics, boxing, cricket, hockey, rugby and sailing. One of our alumnae currently plays for England Women’s Cricket Team, another was the Captain of England Women’s Hockey team for many years and yet another was the Commonwealth decathlon champion.
Music and Drama are both extremely strong at SRMS – concerts involving a large number of students are a fixture in the calendar at the end of every term and School Productions include a huge number of students from across the entire school.
The school is situated in a beautiful area of Kent – it is near several seaside towns (e.g. Deal, Margate, Whitstable) and yet St Pancras International is only around an hour away via the High Speed rail network and the channel crossings at Dover and Ashford are within 30 minutes by car. House prices in the local area are significantly lower than those in most other areas of the South East.
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