Deputy Headteacher
Langley Park School for Girls
Bromley
- Expired
- Salary:
- Negotiable, based upon experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2022
- Apply by:
- 10 February 2022
Job overview
Langley Park School for Girls
Hawksbrook Lane
South Eden Park Road
Beckenham
Kent BR3 3BE
Headteacher: Ms Katie Scott
DEPUTY HEADTEACHER
(Quality of Education)
REQUIRED FOR SEPTEMBER 2022
Salary: Negotiable, based upon experience
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a serving Assistant or Deputy Headteacher. Due to the popularity and increasing size of LPGS, we are seeking to recruit a second Deputy Headteacher.
LPGS is an exciting place to work; a school in which students are motivated to achieve their best and work hard with their teachers to make exceptional progress. We want our students to leave LPGS empowered to shape their own lives, and those of others, as the leaders of tomorrow.
LPGS is an inclusive and academically successful school in South London with results in terms of progress and attainment that put it in the top 5% of schools nationally. Public transport links are good and staff travel from across London and the South Coast. In October 2021, Ofsted found that if they undertook a Section 5 inspection they would judge us to be outstanding. In addition to this, 100% of staff asked told Ofsted that they would recommend the school.
The successful candidate will lead on the Quality of Education, which will include leading on curriculum and line managing the Assistant Headteachers responsible for Teaching & Learning and the Sixth Form.
LPGS is a calm, friendly and collaborative environment which offers strong staff support and development. Staff are well supported, both in their day to day work as well as by the personalised and extensive professional development. Our CPD programme gives all teachers time to pursue their own priorities. This results in a two week October half term. Please see application details on our website www.lpgs.bromley.sch.uk. Completed application forms should be emailed to Helen Partridge, hpa@lpgs.bromley.sch.uk. Those interested in the post are invited to have an informal conversation with the Headteacher by contacting her PA, Vicky Rees, vre@lpgs.bromley.sch.uk. If you would like to visit the school and establish whether we are right for you, you are warmly invited to do so on Friday 28th January 8.30-10.30am.
Please note that whilst you are welcome to submit a CV, shortlisting will be based solely on our application form and your covering letter. All applicants must fully complete the LPGS Application Form.
We would encourage candidates to attend our Sixth Form Open Evening on Thursday 10th February 2022 to see the school in action.
We are a diverse school and an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and identities.
Closing date for applications is Thursday 10th February 2022, with interviews expected to take place on 24th and 25th February 2022.
This 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 successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau disclosure check.
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About Langley Park School for Girls
- Langley Park School for Girls
- Hawksbrook Lane, South Eden Park Road, Beckenham
- Kent
- BR3 3BE
- United Kingdom
The Borough
Bromley, the largest of the 32 London boroughs, stretches from urban Anerley, Penge and Crystal Palace to the open countryside of Kent. Its schools serve an intelligent and articulate community which has a great respect for, and expectation of, the education system.
Student numbers in the 17 secondary schools are high. There is much cross border traffic with many parents in neighbouring boroughs intent on securing places for their children in Bromley schools.
16 of the secondary schools in the borough have converted to academies. Networks of staff across the schools are good, and there are many significant local partnerships, both in and out borough.
The School
This school dates back to 1919 when it began life as Beckenham County School for Girls. It changed from a grammar school to a comprehensive in 1976, some 17 years after moving to its present parkland site in South West Bromley. Our location provides a good rail link with Central London as well as easy access to the countryside.
It is now an all-ability school of 1700 students with a large co-educational Sixth Form. Currently there are 115 teaching staff , 58 associate staff (full and part time) and an annual budget of over £8 million.
We are consistently over-subscribed (last year 820 applications for Year 7 places and 520 applications for Year 12). Our current admission number is 240 (8 forms of entry) organised into 8 tutor groups. Heads of Year have responsibility with tutors for students’ academic and personal well-being and for monitoring their learning and progress. Rigorous tracking and target setting systems inform students’ learning and social inclusion issues, including SEN, are comprehensively and promptly covered by the Personal and Learning Support (PLS) Faculty which has its own dedicated area in the main school building.
Facilities are good although there is little spare capacity. We have a commitment to maintaining a pleasant, modern technological environment and our site staff and cleaners work hard to ensure that this is so. New build projects recently completed include a dedicated Dance Studio, and an extended and enhanced Sixth Form social and study space.
We encourage positive support from parents; we have a committed Governing Body and an active PSA; relationships between staff and students are very good; clubs, sport, music, drama, educational visits, residential visits and foreign tours all provide further opportunities for personal development for both students and staff.
If there is any information here about which you are not clear, please don’t hesitate to ring and we will be happy to clarify. Additionally please look on our web site at www.lpgs.bromley.sch.uk. You can access our prospectus, and if you click on the ‘NEWS’ tab, you can read in our monthly and termly Newsletters to Parents about the sorts of things that are our daily and weekly concerns.
I am very proud of this school, of the quality of its fabric and facilities, but more particularly of the quality of the experience it aims to provide for both students and staff. I know that they, and parents and Governors, share that pride with me. It does not, however, lead us into complacence. Regular self-scrutiny and a commitment to betterment are implicit and explicit in the way that we work here.
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