Assistant Headteacher for Targeted Pupil Attainment

We are seeking to appoint a dedicated professional to come and join our successful and dynamic school as an Assistant Head Teacher.

We are looking for an ambitious, motivated and aspiring leader at our pioneering school, with an established strong reputation, where commitment and our Catholic ethos underpin ongoing improvement. 

The Role

As Assistant Headteacher for Targeted Pupil Attainment, you will play a pivotal role in improving outcomes for all pupils, with a particular focus on ensuring progress for those requiring additional support or intervention. The groups are Pupil Premium, More Able Students and those with EAL. This is a key focus of our school and one of our key priorities: No Child Left Behind. You will lead on strategies to close attainment gaps, such as our Literacy and Numeracy programme and champion best practices in teaching and learning, working with our teaching and learning team to facilitate staff to deliver the highest standards of education across the school to all our pupils.

Our School

All Saints Catholic School is an Outstanding Catholic comprehensive school situated in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and within the Diocese of Brentwood, with good transport links to central London.

All Saints Catholic School has over 1400 students from year 7 to 13. The school achieves excellent exam results, with a Progress 8 score of 0.72 (well above average). We have received an Educational Outcomes award for being in the top 12 percent of schools in the country for progress. 

Our core values of Respect, Understanding, Affection and Humour underpin all aspects of our pastoral and academic daily routines. Our 2024 Ofsted judged us to be an Outstanding school, highlighting that “the school successfully encourages pupils to demonstrate its core values, which include respect and understanding others. In addition to this, pupils meet the school’s exceedingly high academic expectations and achieve very well”.

 We have won a number of awards which reflect our inclusive approach to education, including being awarded the Rights Respecting Schools Gold Award and the Inclusion Quality Mark, this is indicative of our “One in Christ” motto that we apply every day to everyone that is a part of the school community. 

Our learning is based on the transcendental values of truth, goodness and beauty. We encourage pupils to discover truth, develop a sense of goodness and appreciate beauty in the world around them.

Please watch our school videos available at: http://allsaintsschool.co.uk/ to get a further insight into life at All Saints. 

As an established Catholic school, the atmosphere in All Saints offers a calm,

purposeful learning environment, creating a unique oasis in Dagenham, where student

attendance is high and the school oversubscribed. Recently extended facilities

are excellent, strategic steps are already being taken to address the ever

changing demands of the curriculum, but governors recognise further work is

required to implement ongoing progress. 

The advantages on offer at All Saints include: 

· Opportunity to help shape the leadership and your areas of responsibility

· Planned, rising student numbers, enhancing curriculum developmental opportunities 

· Recent refurbishments provide excellent, modern facilities to enhance curriculum

delivery

· Sound balanced budget, with capacity to support future innovation and progress

All Saints Catholic School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment

Closing date: Wednesday 12th February at 9am.