Deputy Head Academic
King's College Prep
Somerset
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 28 January 2022
Job overview
DEPUTY HEAD ACADEMIC (for April 2022 or September 2022)
A rare and exciting opportunity. King’s Hall School seeks an inspirational and dynamic individual with integrity, compassion and vision for the key post of Deputy Head Academic. The successful candidate will understand, value and nurture the School’s ethos whilst building on its success to date.
King’s Hall School is co-educational, offering day and boarding places to boys and girls from the ages of two to thirteen. On our glorious 50-acre site there are about 310 children in the school, 80 of whom are in the Pre-Prep.
There is an excellent record of academic, artistic, dramatic, musical and sporting achievements throughout the school. Over the last six years about 180 scholarships have been gained by leavers at 13+. There is a programme of continual development: in the last twelve years this has included a new sports hall, a performing arts centre, computer centres for both the Pre-Prep and Prep, refurbishing the pool and surrounds and a new full size Astroturf pitch. Even more recently, the Pre-Prep has undergone an extensive refurbishment and our remarkable new Science Faculty has allowed for effective redeployment of departmental spaces and the creation of a cookery school.
Further information about King’s Hall may be obtained from the website, www.kingshalltaunton.co.uk.
For an application pack, please contact the HR Dept on 01823 328105/328100 or email: CSweet@kings-taunton.co.uk.
** Please note we cannot accept CV’s as a method of application **
The closing date for applications is midday on Friday 28 January 2022
Long list interviews will be held at King’s Hall School on Thursday 3 February 2022.
Short list interviews will be held at King’s Hall School on Tuesday 8 February 2022.
King’s Hall School is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to respect this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory reference checks.
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About King's College Prep
King’s provides continuous day and boarding education for girls and boys aged 2 to 18 years. It comprises King’s College Prep School which has approximately 300 children from 2 to 13 and a senior school with approximately 450 pupils from 13 to 18.
The schools are situated on separate sites in the South West of England and combine traditional values with state-of the-art facilities. Both schools are run by one governing body, with many functions (marketing, strategy and finance for example) undertaken jointly.
King’s College Prep is co-educational, offering day and boarding places to boys and girls from the ages of 2 to 13. There are about 300 children in the school, 90 of whom are in the Pre-Prep.
The school is built around Pyrland Hall, an impressive Georgian country house on the edge of the Quantock Hills. The 50 acre estate (including 15 acres of playing fields) is entirely surrounded by National Trust farmland but is also within a mile of Taunton, the county town of Somerset. Bristol and Exeter are within easy reach while London is a 1 hour 40 min train journey or three hours via the motorway.
The Pre-Prep’s Early Years Foundation Stage consists of a Nursery, which takes children after they have reached their second birthday, and there are then one or two classes in each year from Reception to Year 2.
The Prep department, Years 3 to 8, has two or three classes in each year group. There is continuity of educational provision between Years 1 and 8.
The school is a member of the Woodard Corporation, a group of fifty schools educating boys and girls in the Christian tradition in most parts of the country. It works in harness with King’s College, Taunton which is on a separate site about three miles away and most pupils transfer there at the age of 13+.
There is an excellent record of academic, musical, artistic, dramatic and sporting achievements throughout the school.
There is a programme of continual development including a new sports hall, a performing arts centre used for concerts and drama productions, new changing areas, computer centres for both the Pre-Prep and Prep, a refurbished swimming pool and surrounds, a new full size astroturf pitch and a cookery school. The Pre-Prep also had extensive refurbishment and the new Science Faculty has transformed the provision for more than just science.
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