Head
Roedean School
Brighton and Hove
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2023
- Apply by:
- 27 May 2022
Job overview
The Council of Roedean School invite applications for the role of Head from September 2023, following the departure of Mr Oliver Blond after ten years of exceptional and transformational leadership.
Roedean is an independent day and boarding school for 675 girls aged 11 to 18, located on an unparalleled 118-acre clifftop site overlooking the Channel and Brighton Marina. Founded in 1885, the School has a rich and unique history and is driven by the central mission to inspire and challenge each student to develop her own strengths and passions; to seek the highest academic and personal standards for herself, and to develop a strong foundation for her future.
The School maintains a strong reputation as a leading all-girls’ boarding school with excellent facilities that have seen extensive refurbishment and investment in recent years. Girls at Roedean enjoy a broad, holistic offering that inspires excellence across both academic and co-curricular provision within a warm and nurturing school community with strong pastoral care at its heart.
This position presents the opportunity for an outstanding leader to make a real impact in girls’ education and upon the future development and strategy of a well-established institution. The successful candidate will be a bold and adventurous leader with a deep commitment to education and pupil welfare, strong commercial acumen and the innate ability to work with a diverse range of stakeholders. This person will be naturally outward-facing and forward-thinking with a robust, strategic mindset that will build upon the School’s existing successes whilst bringing to bear ambitious plans for the School’s development.
Further information on Roedean School can be found via the website at https://www.roedean.co.uk/.
A candidate brief including details of how to apply can be downloaded from www.odgers.com/85283
Application forms, CVs and covering letters should be submitted by email.
Closing date: 9am Friday 27 May 2022.
Roedean School is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
About Roedean School
Roedean is a mainstream, single-sex, independent school for girls aged 11-18. The School is situated to the east of Brighton, in a beautiful location on the South Downs overlooking the English Channel. There are 700 students on its roll. It is a selective school with termly fees, but scholarships and bursaries are available for girls going into Years 7, 9, and 12.
Headteacher
Niamh Green
Values and vision
The School was founded in 1885, and the founding sisters wanted to provide a “thorough, physical, intellectual, and moral” education. This ethos continues today, and Roedean provides a genuinely holistic education, in which all elements complement each other; this approach places a high value on all the experiences that happen beyond the classroom in sport, art, drama, music, and dance, as well as community outreach and partnerships.
The ‘Six Pillars’ of Roedean are to encourage healthy and active living, a strong academic foundation, an appreciation of sport, culture, and the arts, to build independence of thought and character, to build on skills and confidence, and to have moral and personal values.
ISI
“The school is highly successful in achieving its aims. All pupils, including those with SEND or EAL and the more able, achieve excellent results in external examinations. Pupils, including those in Sixth Form, make a high rate of progress in relation to the average for pupils of similar abilities. They have an exemplary attitude towards learning which contributes to their success. Pupils enjoy their lessons, working together well to attain high standards of learning.”
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