Assistant Principal
BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology
Croydon
- Expired
- Salary:
- LPS Outer London - L18-L22
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 26/08/2025
- Apply by:
- 22 April 2025
Job overview
Are you an inspirational leader with a passion for improving student achievement? Do you have a proven track record in educational leadership and a deep understanding of curriculum development? We are looking for an Assistant Principal to join our dynamic Senior Leadership Team at The BRIT School, where you will lead and drive student success across National Curriculum subjects, ensuring every student achieves their full potential.
About this Role:
The Assistant Principal will be responsible for driving improvement in student achievement, particularly through the strategic leadership of National Curriculum subjects. You will ensure the highest quality of teaching and learning, empowering students to achieve exceptional progress and outcomes. As a member of the senior leadership team, you will help set the vision for the school and collaborate with all stakeholders to maintain the school's high profile and outstanding performance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Improving Student Achievement: Lead and oversee the development of student progress and outcomes across National Curriculum subjects.
- Curriculum Leadership: Develop, implement, and lead a strategic vision for curriculum improvement across KS4 and Post-16 (P16).
- Collaboration with Leadership Team: Work closely with the Vice Principal and other senior leaders to ensure the effective delivery of the curriculum.
- People Management: Lead and support department heads, ensuring staff are motivated and capable of delivering high-quality education.
- Pupil Premium and BRIT Fit Leadership: Oversee the strategic delivery and budget management of the Pupil Premium and BRIT Fit programmes.
- Inspection Preparation: Ensure the school is well-prepared for OFSTED and other regulatory inspections.
Why Join The BRIT School?
The BRIT School is a unique institution offering specialist education in the arts and related technologies, alongside the full range of National Curriculum subjects. Recently judged ‘Outstanding’ in all five categories by Ofsted The BRIT School is sponsored by the British Record Industry and has a unique relationship with the performing and creative arts industries. We offer a supportive and inspiring environment where you can make a significant impact. You will be part of a dedicated leadership team that values collaboration, development, and student well-being.
The school runs a five-term academic year with some school holidays falling at different times to the usual Local Authority school breaks. Please see our website for further details of our term dates.
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About BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology
- BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology
- 60 The Crescent, Croydon
- Surrey
- CR0 2HN
- United Kingdom
The BRIT School is Britain's only FREE Performing Arts and Technology School. It is an independent, state funded school, the only one of its kind dedicated to education and vocational training for the performing arts, media, art and design and the digital technologies that make performance possible.
Creativity is crucial to the future of our economy and society. For over a quarter of a century, The BRIT School has successfully nurtured creative skills in students from every type of background alongside a robust and full academic curriculum. And it does so for free.
Young people who choose to come here are given the tools to carve out their career, the space to think and the environment to be themselves. This is a playground with professional boundaries where the raw talent of 14–19 year old meets the nurturing expertise of world-class teachers.
The BRIT School revolutionises the lives of its students; 99% of all students who have graduated find work in a huge range of creative industries, or enrol for higher education. We are proud to be a Croydon school and equally proud to have national and international friends who support the school with professional and unique opportunities. As the Good School Guide articulates, “You’ll find BRIT graduates’ words, music, performance, directorial and backstage talents just about everywhere you look, from fashion shows to musicals, national theatre to community arts, in the UK and internationally.” This is a hardworking, fun, passionate school packed with dedicated individuals who love the creative and performing arts and recognise the importance of a thorough and robust education in all subjects. We believe in developing well rounded, articulate, kind and dynamic young people.
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