Assistant Head (Teaching and Learning)
King's College
Somerset
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 29 February 2024
Job overview
We seeking to appoint an Assistant Head (Teaching and Learning) from September 2024.
This Assistant Head role is the perfect next step for someone who may have excelled leading an academic department or faculty to gain whole school strategic knowledge, experience and reach. This role has become available as the current outstanding incumbent has been promoted to the position of Deputy Head Academic at Sherborne Girls.
The Assistant Head (Teaching and Learning) is an exciting and incredibly important senior position within the school. Serving on the Senior Management Team and reporting directly to the Headmaster, you will help shape the vision and strategy of the school.
King’s College promotes a lifelong love of learning for its own sake, not simply to pass an exam. Pupils are encouraged to develop and grow their intellectual curiosity, to read widely around their subject areas and to think deeply. Excellent teaching and cutting-edge pedagogy facilitates this growth mindset and the Assistant Head (Teaching and Learning) plays a crucial part in ensuring this culture is fully embedded across the school.
This position is an exciting opportunity for someone who has a passion for learning, combined with the ability to inspire pupils and staff, and the willingness to support the ambition, values and breadth of school life. Working closely with a committed senior leadership, this is an opportunity to join King’s at the start of a new chapter and to make a real and lasting difference to the lives of young people.
For further details and an application form, contact the HR department on 01823 328105/328231, visit the vacancies page on our website (www.kings-taunton.co.uk) or email CSweet@kings-taunton.co.uk / SLMatthews@kings-taunton.co.uk.
The closing date for applications is Thursday 29 February.
Interviews will be held in the week beginning 4 March.
King’s College Taunton is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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About King's College
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King’s provides continuous day and boarding education for girls and boys aged two to 18 years. It comprises King’s College Prep which has approximately 300 children from 2 to 13 and a senior school with approximately 400 pupils from 13 to 18.
The schools are situated on separate sites in the south west of England and combine traditional values with state-of-the-art facilities. Both schools are run by one governing body, with many functions (marketing, strategy and finance for example) undertaken jointly.
King’s College has a rich and welcoming family and community ethos. Just over 60% of the pupils board. For a relatively small school, it has an enviable record of success in all areas.
The school has regularly topped GCSE and A-level league tables for Somerset. A broad range of co-curricular activities is offered, and the school is renowned for its success in sport, music, performing arts, fine art, design technology and outdoor pursuits. In many of these activities our pupils have achieved success at national and even international levels.
Good discipline is encouraged in a firm and positive way within a supportive pastoral framework. King’s College is strong on manners and social skills. Pupils go on to thrive at good universities and in their professional careers. In short, King’s is a purposeful, outward-looking, down-to-earth, highly successful school.
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