Deputy Headteacher – Quality of Education
Budehaven Community School
Cornwall
- £73,509 - £81,070 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- L19 to L23
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2024
- Apply by:
- 22 April 2024
Job overview
This exciting position has arisen due to the relocation of one of our two Deputy Headteachers.
Our school is at the heart of the Bude community, with 1148 pupils on roll, including 148 in our successful Sixth Form. Our caring, energetic and ambitious students are a real credit to us, and we love working alongside them to help them achieve amazing things every day. In our recent Ofsted inspection, on 16th and 17th May 2023, it was noted that “Pupils are happy and get on well with one another. They value the warm relationships they have with staff. Leaders have high expectations of pupils’ behaviour. Pupils meet these expectations, so the school has a positive and purposeful atmosphere”. It was also noted that our experienced staff enjoy working at Budehaven Community School, and are proud to work here.
As a school, our number one priority is to ensure that all of our children are safe, and have the best possible quality of education possible. To achieve this, we need a Deputy Headteacher who is highly skilled, experienced, knowledgeable, and who shares this passion for Teaching and Learning. We are looking for someone who looks, thinks and works relentlessly, in a wider sense, to ensure we are the best we can be, as a team. We have recently invested in the Tom Sherrington “Walkthrus”, and this will form an integral part of our work on Teaching and Learning. We have a staff who have a thirst for new knowledge in the world of teaching and learning. If you have the positivity, drive, determination, coupled with an ability to set the standard and hold all staff to account, then we would love to hear from you.
The successful candidate will have incredibly high standards for everyone and all they can achieve, whilst being approachable by students, staff, parents and other members of the community. The focus on the areas for improvement will be relentless, and there will be regular meetings outside of normal school hours, with leaders across the school, to ensure the areas are addressed, with the needs of our young people at the centre.
At Budehaven Community School we are committed to the safeguarding of our students and the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check
For full details and an application form, please visit our website http://www.budehaven.cornwall.sch.uk/job-vacancies/
or contact Mrs Clare Brown at the school
Tel: 01288 353271
Email: clare.brown@budehaven.cornwall.sch.uk
Closing date: 12 noon on Monday 22nd April 2024, with interviews being held in the week commencing 29th April 2024.
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About Budehaven Community School
Budehaven Community School is located on the beautiful north Cornwall coast in the town of Bude.
We are proud to be a fully comprehensive school, providing education to students from ages 11 to 19.
Our school also benefits from a thriving, successful Sixth Form, an Area Resource Base and an Integrated Health Centre.
Partnerships are really important to Budehaven, and we have many partners, ranging from local primary schools, to secondary schools nationally, and a successful international relationship with Assossa, Ethiopia.
Budehaven Community School is a thriving environment to be part of, and its energy is tangible from the second you walk through the door. As you walk around our school, the energy of the students and staff is infectious. The stunning work of our talented young people is on display around the school and in our stylish Bistro Art Gallery, aside that of local artists for all to appreciate.
We celebrate talent, skill, effort and difference, and the results of this are evident in every part of the school community. Walls of Excellence in classrooms display outstanding student work, the fundraising activities and competitions that take place across our Houses bring out the generosity of all members of our Budehaven family, the national and international sporting competitions that we are so proud of our students for competing within, and the musical talents of our students, ranging from the Jazz Band to the Samba Band further adds to the atmosphere.
We are proud to have been judged to be a GOOD school by Ofsted (February, 2017). Our students achieve well: younger students follow a mastery curriculum that builds on prior knowledge and understanding in a spiral way, linking ideas within and across subjects. As a result, Key Stage 3 prepares them well for the challenges of GCSEs. Our Year 11 students’ GCSE results in 2018 showed a year on year increase in the number of students making good progress, and the percentage of students that achieved a Grade 5 or higher in English and maths was significantly higher than other local schools.
We are incredibly proud of our Sixth Form, which provides a range of A Level and BTec courses that cater for the academic requirements of all members of our school community, leading to them achieving top results. We are also very proud of our Sixth Form students; every year many of them go on to Oxbridge, Russell Group, national and international universities.
Budehaven students and staff are proud of our school and the community it serves. We are ambitious for our students, academically and for their development into curious young people. Our students understand and can articulate their thoughts and ideas on a wide range of topics, from climate change to politics, economics to science. They look beyond their locality, look at the world in wonder, and become thoughtful and productive members of society.
We welcome anyone who would like to come and visit our school community, and cannot wait to show you all the amazing things we have to offer!
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