Assistant Headteacher
Barton Court Grammar School
Kent
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2018
- Apply by:
- 15 October 2017
Job overview
Assistant Headteacher
Curriculum and Achievement (L14 – L18)
This is an exciting time to join Barton Court Grammar School (BCGS), an Ofsted Outstanding co-educational selective school in the heart of Canterbury with a strong reputation for its high academic standards and its caring and supportive ethos. Barton Court is the lead school of the Barton Court Academy Trust, BCAT, a Multi-Academy Trust of three secondary Schools, Barton Court Grammar School, The Charles Dickens School, and an 11-18yrs non-selective Free School, co-sited, due to open by 2020.
Required for January 2018, the Governors wish to appoint a highly qualified Assistant Headteacher, who is experienced in senior leadership, and is ambitious for Deputy Headship. We are looking for a well organised, creative, enthusiastic and committed individual to lead and manage Curriculum, KS4 Achievement, assessment, examinations, monitoring & tracking and intervention strategies. The successful candidate will be an excellent teacher and an enthusiastic leader committed to excellence for all pupils, with the vision, energy and desire to contribute to our continued success.
If you believe that we are the school and Trust in which you wish to pursue your career, please consult our website which contains further information about the school and the role. Applications for this prestigious post should be made on-line only using the school application form. CVs will not be accepted. On the website visit the information page and click on recruitment. Please email your application to rlight@bartoncourt.org. If you wish to discuss this post or arrange a visit then please contact the Head of School, Mr Macaulay.
Deadline: Monday 16 October 2017 at 10am
Interviews: Thursday 19 October 2017
Attached documents
About Barton Court Grammar School
Welcome to Barton Court Grammar School (BCGS)
Barton Court Grammar School is an 11-18 years, selective, co-educational, Grammar school in Canterbury, Kent. The School is highly popular and is oversubscribed.
At BCGS, we are a school that seeks to inspire, support and enable both staff and students to achieve. To help us do this we promote the values of serving others, humility, achievement, respect and equality. We are a school which embraces our British heritage and British values. As a result, we welcome staff from a range of backgrounds and faiths to join our vibrant and inclusive environment.
Subjects across the School benefit from being led by a team of highly competent, skilled and charismatic middle leaders. Exciting and innovative teaching is enabled by the scaffolding of colleagues’ skills through carefully designed continuous professional development which encompasses everything from bespoke workshops to the opportunity to observe colleagues, including our Leadership Team. Entirely committed to education, our facilities are second to none and include a shared Sports Hall and gym with Canterbury Christ Church University, a new block built in January 2018 which consists of 7 new Mathematics classrooms, 3 state-of-the-art Science Laboratories, new Kitchen/Servery and Canteen. In addition, Sixth Form students have access to their own Common Room and own Learning Resources Centre. The whole site has industry standard wi-fi with students in the Sixth Form able to bring their own devices to school.
Colleagues and pupils benefit from our commitment to extra-curricular activities, enrichment days and enrichment week broadening student experiences and developing cultural capital. Successful teachers at Barton Court are committed, industrious and open to development, not only within the confines of the classroom, but within wider school life.
Barton Court is the lead school in the Barton Court Academy Trust which provides staff with opportunities to significantly contribute to the CPD of colleagues within the Trust and support and develop the curriculum being designed at the Barton Manor Free School, which opened in September 2022. In addition colleagues within the school take advantage of planned opportunities to be part of our Staff Drive team, as well as pioneering work in relation to staff workload and well-being.
Headteacher
Jonathan Hopkins
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