Head of Pastoral and Safeguarding (Residential)
The Purcell School
Bushey, Hertfordshire
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2020 or sooner
- Apply by:
- 13 June 2019
Job overview
Celebrated throughout the world as a centre of musical excellence, The Purcell School is the most vibrant, exciting and exhilarating place to work or study. We are a close-knit community dedicated to nurturing some of the world’s most talented young musicians and we recognize the unique privilege it is to work with these incredibly gifted students.
This new senior role offers the exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking, creative individual to shape the pastoral and wellbeing provision of the whole school. The first priority of the School is to ensure all our students are safe, happy and healthy. The vision of the new Principal is for a wellbeing programme which is truly embedded at the centre of the school and from which all else follows. The Principal passionately believes that unless students are safe, happy and healthy, there will always be a ceiling on what they can achieve and the central focus of this role will be to inform and realise that vision in a proactive and dynamic way.
Please see the attached Candidate Information pack for full details and instructions on how to apply.
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About The Purcell School
The Purcell School is a world-famous boarding and day school in Bushey near Watford, which aims to provide a rounded education with music at its heart.
The school was founded in 1962, and is Britain’s oldest specialist music school. There are currently over 180 pupils aged from 10-18 years, of whom about 30% come from abroad. Over 75% of pupils are boarders. The sixth form currently comprises around 90 pupils with approximately 25-30 pupils joining the school each year specifically for the Sixth Form. The majority of pupils progress to music conservatoires, many of them on scholarships, while a small number each year elect to go to university, often to Oxbridge or Russell Group institutions.
The school has an enviable reputation for the quality of its musical education and performance. Students enjoy individual tuition on one or two instruments, or in composition, from some of the very best teachers available. They take part in over 200 orchestral, choral and chamber concerts, and have opportunities to perform regularly at venues including the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and St Albans Abbey.
In addition to their musical studies, students study for GCSE and A Level. The range of subjects on offer includes all three sciences, art, drama, English literature, modern languages, history and music technology. All pupils take GCSE and A-level Music.
Our students are the liveliest, most committed and self-motivated young people you could hope to meet. Every day, the School’s corridors echo with the sound of extraordinary music as our students prepare for concerts both here at School and in the most prestigious venues in London.
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