Deputy Head
King's College School Soto de Vinuelas
Spain
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- January 2017
- Apply by:
- 17 May 2016
Job overview
King’s College Madrid, a HMC/COBIS British international school world-renowned for academic excellence, is seeking to appoint an inspiring, influential and dynamic Deputy Head to commence in January 2017. This position has become available following the appointment of Mr Matthew Taylor, the present post-holder, to Headmaster of the school. It is anticipated that the appointed candidate will be of the calibre to progress to headship within the next five years.
KING’S COLLEGE IN BRIEF
- Renowned as one of the world’s leading British International Schools
- 1,540 pupils aged from 20 months to 18 years
- Founded over 40 years ago
- A track record of sending high numbers of pupils to leading Russell Group and Ivy League universities
- Superb facilities including a brand new Science building and Sports Hall
- Consistently excellent SAT, IGCSE and A Level results
- Situated in a purpose built campus in a leafy suburb of Madrid, 20 minutes from the city centre and Barajas airport
- Member of HMC, COBIS, ISC, and BSA; Inspected by ISI
- Flagship school of the King's Group (Madrid, Murcia, Alicante, Panama and UK)
In addition to the information regarding working at King’s and living in Madrid contained with the Candidate Pack, please also access the Working at King’s clip: http://vacancies.kingsgroup.org/
To take advantage of this superb opportunity to lead in one of the largest, most successful British schools in Europe, complete the online application form by following the link http://vacancies.kingsgroup.org/?centre=Soto and send an updated CV and a brief covering letter (maximum of two sides of A4), as email attachments to kings@compassteaching.com by the deadline of 12 noon GMT, on Wednesday 18th May. Long-list interviews will take place in London on Thursday 26th May. Final interviews will be held in Madrid on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th June.
About King's College School Soto de Vinuelas
- King's College School Soto de Vinuelas
- Paseo de los Andes No 35, Soto de Vinuelas
- Madrid
- 28760
- Spain
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1. Local Area Information
The main site of the school is approximately twenty km from Madrid. Largely surrounded by countryside the school offers an excellent educational environment. By September nearly all teaching rooms will be equipped with interactive whiteboards and computers linked to the whole school wireless network.
Madrid itself offers a wide range of cultural, sporting and social opportunities. The range of world class art galleries, museums and architecture really do make it one of Europe’s great cities. To the north of Madrid are a number of mountain ranges offering wildlife, superb hiking and in winter, skiing. The nearest ski station to Madrid is forty five minutes away.
On the social front, Madrid has been described as the city that never sleeps. The Madrid culture is based around the café culture. It is not unusual for the city to have traffic jams at three in the morning. Whilst the culture is lively it is never threatening unlike some city centres you may come across in the UK. The city and its surrounds offers a really good quality of life for those willing to embrace the Spanish culture.
2. School details
King’s College has in excess of 1500 students and will, over the next three years expand to more than 2000. It is spread over three sites with the main site being situated about twenty km out of Madrid.
Results are excellent with a 93% GCSE pass rate and a 98% pass rate at A Level. The sixth form is one of the largest in Europe and students enter into, in the main, the Russell group of universities in the UK, the Ivy League in the USA and top universities in Spain. One of the great strengths of the school is the working environment. Classrooms have the usual interactive whiteboards etc but the relationship between teachers and students is very good. A strong work ethic means teachers really can concentrate on teaching, pastoral issues do arise but behaviour issues are very rare.
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