Head of Cranbrook School
Cranbrook School
Kent
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- SLT scale plus boarding allowance
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1 September 2023
- Apply by:
- 31 January 2023
Job overview
Cranbrook School is seeking to appoint an outstanding and inspirational Head to lead us into our next exciting phase of development.
Cranbrook offers a unique, selective state education for day and boarding girls and boys from 11 to 18. Founded in 1518, it is a grammar school of exceptional character that requires an exceptional Head to lead it.
Our next Head will understand, nurture and lead highly motivated students and staff. They will continue the school’s ambitious plans to expand and create a vision for the development of our facilities across our beautiful 75-acre site in rural Kent. They will drive the delivery of our aim to become the best state boarding school in Britain and will help us embrace all local feeder schools and partners. They will have the support of parents, governors, staff and students who value an academic education as much as the education of character through a vibrant co-curriculum and high-quality pastoral care. They will inherit a school that is energised and excited about its mission and that has emerged from the pandemic smiling.
Cranbrook currently has over 880 students in Years 7-13, including 235 boarders from across the UK and the world. It is over-subscribed and entrance is competitive. Sport, music, drama, outdoor adventure and clubs are held in high regard. The school is a dominant presence in the pretty market town of Cranbrook, with which it enjoys a positive relationship.
We pride ourselves on producing rounded, grounded young people who are self-motivated and confident to follow their own paths, yet humble and appreciative of others at the same time. We are progressive and outward-looking; our international population ensures that the celebration of diverse outlooks and backgrounds is key to the Cranbrook experience.
Above all, the Head will be dedicated to our mission to develop curious, resilient and empathic young adults. They will embody our values of kindness, integrity, curiosity, aspiration and individuality.
A spacious elegant home is provided for the Head on campus, with utilities paid by the school.
Application deadline date 31 January 2023
Attached documents
About Cranbrook School
- Cranbrook School
- Waterloo Road, Cranbrook
- Kent
- TN17 3JD
- United Kingdom
Cranbrook School is a mixed state grammar school with 900+ pupils aged 11-18 years, including around 260 boarders. It was founded in 1518. Day pupils come from within 5.28 miles of the school, following a test to judge their suitability for a grammar school education. Boarders are admitted from a wide area, having sat the same test. Although it is a selective school, Cranbrook admits a wider ability range than many other grammar schools. We provide a challenging and supportive curriculum so that students of all abilities are catered for. The value-added scores that are achieved each year bear testimony to the success of our provision.
Pupils join at the age of 11 or 13, and in Year 10 they start GCSEs in nine or ten subjects. Most students then qualify for the Sixth Form, this being supplemented by a healthy intake into Year 12 from other schools. All Sixth Formers take at least three A levels and can choose the EPQ and other qualifications in addition.
For a state school, the facilities are impressive. Within the seventy acres of school grounds are found the six boarding houses, the Queen’s Hall Theatre (used for assemblies, school productions, visiting theatre companies and concerts), a large library and lecture theatre. Sports facilities include a large sports hall, dance studio, cardio gym, weights room, heated outdoor swimming pool, squash courts and extensive playing fields and facilities for games - hockey, rugby, cricket, netball, tennis and athletics – as well as an astro-turf pitch. The school also possesses a Performing Arts Centre that houses a drama studio and music practice rooms, and a vibrant Sixth Form Centre. The school boasts an Observatory named after Dr Piers Sellers OBE, an Old Cranbrookian and NASA astronaut.
Head
David Clark
Our Mission
- To provide an outstanding all-round education with academic fulfilment at its heart
- To add value to our local community and provide exceptional boarding for those outside it
- To develop curious, resilient and empathic young adults, who are confident to follow their own paths
Our Motto
Maiora tento praesentibus aequus
Equal to today, I reach for greater things
Our Values
- Kindness
- Integrity
- Curiosity
- Aspiration
- Individuality
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