Assistant Headteacher
Sheldon School
Wiltshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- L13-L20
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01.09.19
- Apply by:
- 25 February 2019
Job overview
Assistant Headteacher (Staff Development and Pupil Care)
Salary: L13 – L20
Required for September 2019, a full-time permanent Assistant Headteacher to join our Senior Management Team.
Sheldon is a large, high performing comprehensive school with over 1700 pupils and is oversubscribed for 2019. We would like to appoint a highly motivated and enthusiastic professional to work with the headteacher and senior management team to build on our successes and take the school forward. This is an exceptional opportunity for a candidate who is an outstanding classroom practitioner, who has pastoral welfare at their core and who has the ability to inspire both colleagues and students. The role is a varied one including leadership and management of the key stage 3 year heads, CPD and training, and line management of other key personnel within Sheldon.
The assistant headteacher would be joining a hugely committed senior management team in a friendly, successful school, where morale is high, students are keen to learn and there is a shared will to make it even stronger. If you possess the drive, energy, passion and ambition needed, we would very much like to hear from you.
To apply, please submit a covering letter of no more than two sides of A4 and complete the application form.
We are situation in attractive parkland on the edge of the rapidly growing market town of Chippenham, surrounded by beautiful countryside. There are good rail and road links to London, we are 5 minutes from junction 17 on the M4 and a 10 minute train journey to the beautiful Roman City of Bath.
For further details about the school, please visit our website www.sheldonschool.co.uk
Closing date: Tuesday, 26th February 2019 at noon
Interviews: Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th March 2019
We are situated in attractive parkland on the edge of the rapidly growing market town of Chippenham, surrounded by beautiful countryside. There are good rail and road links to London, we are 5 minutes from junction 17 on the M4 and a 10 minute train journey to
Application process: Please click ‘Apply Now’ and download our application form and submit to hr@sheldonschool.co.uk
Sheldon School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure.
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About Sheldon School
Sheldon School is a mixed, comprehensive, non-denominational secondary with sixth form situated in Chippenham, Wiltshire. It is an academy supported by a single-academy trust, the Sheldon School Trust. The total capacity is 1,800 students aged 11-18.
Its predecessor, Chippenham Country Secondary Modern School for Boys, opened in 1959. Sheldon School became an academy in 2011.
Headteacher
Peter Lynch
Values and vision
Sheldon is an institution of high expectation and aspiration. It encourages children to develop academically, physically and spiritually through committed and dedicated teaching. It prides itself on being a place where unique individuals achieve their own aims. The school motto is "unity and loyalty", and Sheldon encourages all students to engage with different cultures and systems of belief.
There is particular progress for students in English and physical education, as well as creative subjects such as design and technology and art. A specialist school in science, sport and languages, Sheldon has multiple facilities for those subjects; the modern languages department, for example, has a frequently updated mobile library. The school newsletter, The Sheldon Standard, gives students the chance to submit articles – one of many opportunities available across the secondary school and sixth form.
Ofsted report
“Pupils enjoy attending Sheldon School. They feel safe and welcome. They are keen to take part in lessons and share their views confidently. The curriculum is ambitious for all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities”
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