Assistant Headteacher
Floreat Wandsworth Primary School
Earlsfield
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Group Pay Range (Inner London)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 9 March 2018
Job overview
"Everything is positive!" - Floreat teacher
We are looking for an Assistant Headteacher with plenty of positivity, spark, drive and grit to lead teaching and learning in either a Foundation Stage or KS1 classroom.
Please download our Recruitment Pack for more details (& photos of our children!).
You will share our core values and be totally committed, as we are, to Every Child Flourishing.
Your virtues will include:
- An effective leadership style that builds collaboration among and confidence of staff.
- An understanding of how to establish and instill consistently high standards of behaviour and a scholarly culture in an inner city school.
- Motivation to help Floreat staff through day-to-day challenges whilst maintaining an underlying focus on developing their capacity to deliver the Knowledge and Virtue School Model.
- Genuine belief in the potential of every child to be knowledgeable and virtuous.
- Drive and perseverance continually to evaluate, improve and learn.
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils.
We can offer you:
- A new building with fantastic facilities in which you can create your very own learning environment.
- An energetic and happy school team who will share your enthusiasm to build a great school from scratch.
- A superb professional development programme and career opportunities within Floreat.
- Opportunities to showcase your your teaching and leadership skills to other teachers and leaders who visit us from all over the UK.
- Opportunities to develop your own ideas and personality to make our school even better!
- Support from an exceptionally skilled team including our CEO, Janet Hilary who is a National Leader of Education.
- Training and regular visits from the wider education community such as Pie Corbett (Talk4Writing) and John Walker (Sounds-Write)
- Parents who tell us they love what we do and are ready to give you their full support.
- An easy commute! Our school has superb public transport links and a parking space for your car if required.
Floreat Wandsworth Primary School is a school in a newly built school in Earlsfield serving a community of happy children and supportive parents. We opened in September 2015 and we currently have a Nursery class, two Reception classes, two Year 1 classes and two Year 2 classes. Eventually we will have a full two form entry primary school up to Year 6.
Come and meet the Headteacher, Matthew Custance, and see what we do here at Floreat!
We are offering school tours on Wednesday 28th February @ 7.30am or 4.30pm and on Wednesday 7th March @ 7.30am or 4.30pm. Please book yourself onto a 30 minute School Tour by emailing recruitment@wandsworth.floreat.org.uk by stating your name and your chosen tour date and time.
Applications forms and an attached cover letter should be addressed to the Headteacher (Matthew Custance) and sent in hard copy to Floreat Wandsworth Primary School, 305 Garratt Lane, London SW18 4EQ or electronically to recruitment@wandsworth.floreat.org.uk
Attached documents
About Floreat Wandsworth Primary School
- Floreat Wandsworth Primary School
- 305 Garrett Lane, Wandsworth
- London
- SW18 4EQ
- United Kingdom
At Floreat Wandsworth, part of GLF Schools, our pupils are safe, happy and high-achieving.
School should be fun and happy pupils are more likely to be successful. We see it as our responsibility to bring out their talents, to broaden their interests and to develop their personal qualities.
We offer an approach to education which develops in our pupils
- An intelligent and critical awareness of the world
- Strong communication skills based on a love of reading and discussion
- A confident ability to think independently and with originality
- A vast array of skills including music, sport and performing arts
- An enthusiastic appetite for study
- Character strengths such as service, courage and perseverance.
Why join our Team?
- Leadership opportunities from the moment you start your Floreat career
- Everything is positive... the children are full of joy and are always very well behaved!
- The leadership team always have your best interests at heart.
- The chance to work for a thriving community of families
- Straightforward and efficient marking. This allows more time to focus on the next day of learning
- Lots of CPD opportunities are provided by the Trust we belong to – GLF
- Easy transport links to great places to live e.g. Tooting, Clapham, Brixton, Putney, Balham, Wimbledon and Kingston
- It’s a 5 minute walk from Earlsfield Train Station and then a 10 minute train to Waterloo. There’s also a space for your car!
Join the GLF Schools Community
As a part of GLF Schools, you will join a community of staff dedicated to transforming education. With regular progression discussions, there will be a wealth of opportunities for you to grow your career, whether in one of our 42 academies or in our central team.
- Celebrating 10 years as a growing Multi Academy Trust with over 2,000 colleagues and over 16,000 pupils
- Founded upon the values of Respect, Inclusivity, Integrity and Kindness
- 42 primary and secondary schools across 7 Local Authority areas across the south of England
- We work as a community whilst ensuring each school maintains its own unique identity
- Committed to ensuring all children and young people receive the best possible education
GLF Schools Employment Offer
GLF Schools has a generous employment offer, which allows all our colleagues to Grow, Learn and Flourish
- Access to our highly competitive Local Government Pension Scheme
- Flexible working options
- Generous holiday allowance
- Work life and family friendly policies
- Employee wellbeing initiatives
- Career pathways and talent management
- Access to a staff benefits portal
- Community and collaboration working model
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