Deputy Head – Learning and Teaching

Thomas’s Clapham are seeking to appoint a kind, creative, and passionate Deputy Head to be the leader of its learning culture, a culture that enables colleagues to excel within the school’s shared curriculum expectations, starting September 2022.

The Deputy Head – Learning and Teaching, is a key member of Thomas's Clapham Leadership Planning Team (LPT). The role will be central to the realisation of the school strategic plan, with a specific focus on ensuring there is consistently better teaching in each and every class.

Thomas’s Clapham is one of four fully co-educational independent preparatory schools that are part of a family-owned group of schools founded in London by David and Joanna Thomas. Thomas’s schools offer an education for boys and girls with high academic aims in a broad curriculum, taught by committed and inspiring teachers.

Thomas’s London Day Schools educate over 2,000 children at its four prep schools – Thomas’s Battersea, Thomas’s Clapham, Thomas’s Fulham, and Thomas’s Kensington, and in one kindergarten in Battersea. Thomas’s Academy, formerly New King’s Primary School, joined the Thomas’s family of schools in September 2015.

Thomas’s Clapham is based in the borough of Wandsworth, within a short walk to the wide-open spaces of Clapham Common and Wandsworth Common, and to local shops, restaurants and bars along the popular Northcote Road.

Thomas’s Clapham is a school with intellectual rigour and high academic standards and committed to developing a culture of thinking whereby pupils are safe, kind, calm, and ready to engage with others, ideas, and with action. This is grounded in the school’s belief that learning is a consequence of thinking, and that learning is everywhere. The school aims to have a community full of pupils who assume an active role in their learning, and who are adaptable thinkers. Much of this comes from the school embedding an instructional framework that allows for critical, creative and reflective thinking.

At Thomas’s Clapham, kindness and creativity are at its core, and it looks to embrace the joy of childhood in all that it does. 

Thomas’s Clapham was recognised by Ofsted as Outstanding in each category in February 2018.

If you feel you have the right skills and experience for this role and are excited by Thomas’s Clapham’s approach to bringing out the best in every child in a supportive and hard-working setting, then we would be pleased to receive your application.

Potential candidates wishing to discuss this post are warmly invited to contact the following at RSAcademics:

• Jenny Funnell, Search Consultant: jennyfunnell@rsacademics.com
• Brodie Bibby, Senior Advisor: brodiebibby@rsacademics.com

Further information about the role and details of how to apply can be found at www.rsacademics.com

Closing date: 10.00am on Thursday 10 February 2022

• Thomas’s Clapham 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 is subject to enhanced DBS and other checks in line with safer recruitment best practice.
• This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
• The safeguarding responsibilities of this post are detailed in the candidate information brochure.

RSAcademics is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in schools.