Deputy Head Teacher
Queensmead School
Hillingdon
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Salary Range Negotiable
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 26 April 2018
Job overview
DEPUTY HEAD TEACHER
Leadership Salary Range Negotiable
Required for September 2018
Queensmead is an ‘outstanding’ school. You will be joining a friendly, professional and collegiate organisation. Our focus is always on maximising student outcomes, supporting staff to raise student achievement and developing teaching and learning that engages and challenges students.
We seek a talented and committed practitioner to join our Leadership Team.
Queensmead students are aspirational and have positive attitudes to learning. There is a well developed culture within the school where the highest expectations are placed on students. The students’ response to this is demonstrated by the progress they make from starting Year 7 to the end of Year 11. The progress made by KS4 is in the top 10% nationally each year.
The successful candidate will have:-
· Dynamism, enthusiasm and a sense of humour
· Ability to build positive relationships
· Outstanding and innovative teaching skills
· An exceptional role model who promotes the highest standards and expectations
· Excellent leadership, management and interpersonal skills
· Potential for Headship
Please apply using the Queensmead School application form. All application forms must be completed with a covering letter addressed to Miss R Johnston, Head Teacher, and sent to: recruitment@qmschool.org.uk
Closing date: Friday 27th April (noon)
Interviews: Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd May
Queensmead School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The appointment is subject to references and an enhanced DBS check.
Queensmead School, Queens Walk, South Ruislip Middlesex, HA4 0LS Tel: 020 8845 6266 www.queensmeadschool.org.uk
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About Queensmead School
Queensmead School is based in South Ruislip, Middlesex, and is a ‘Good’, oversubscribed 11-18 mixed comprehensive school where students achieve very highly and display ‘excellent behaviour’ (Ofsted). It currently has around 1,450 students.
Head Teacher
Rhona Johnston
Values and Vision
Queensmead School strives to maintain a learning environment where students can reach their maximum potential, wherever their skills may lie. Technology is a key part of the education environment, with devices such as visualisers, iPads and Chromebooks a regular classroom feature. There is also a strong emphasis on attendance and punctuality, with these qualities seen as essential to the learning process and academic endeavour.
Queensmead offers students the chance to participate in activities such as music tuition and sports, with facilities including basketball courts, a fitness zone and access to five-a-side football pitches. International experiences offered to secondary students include language development in France, Germany and Spain, trekking excursions in Morocco, and skiing in Italy and Austria.
Ofsted Report
“There is a strong culture of respect and tolerance at the school. Pupils are calm and mature. The school’s values of kindness, respect, resilience and independence shine through when staff and pupils interact... Behaviour around the school is excellent. All staff are supported by leaders and school systems to maintain high expectations of pupils’ behaviour... ”
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