Headteacher
King's Cross Academy
Camden
- £75,732 - £86,391 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- L18-24
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1 September 2023
- Apply by:
- 20 February 2023
Job overview
An exceptional opportunity for a dynamic Headteacher
The transformation of King’s Cross is one of the largest, most significant urban regeneration projects in the UK. At its heart is a new, purpose-built primary Academy. King’s Cross Academy opened in September 2015, sponsored as a single Academy by the King’s Cross Academy Trust.
The Academy is part of a unique education campus, co-located with Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children. King’s Cross is an exceptional place: a melting pot of media, fashion and advertising, design, ‘tech’ and life sciences, world-class teaching, inspiring designers and leading companies. Central Saint Martins (part of the University of the Arts London), the Aga Khan University, Google, Meta, Havas, Samsung, Sony Music and Nike are all here, with The Francis Crick Institute and British Library and the Guardian also just around the corner. We have already developed strong partnerships to enrich our children’s learning but there are many more opportunities for the right candidate to explore.
King’s Cross Academy Trust is seeking an outstanding Headteacher who shares our vision, values, ethos and passion for the role of education in transforming lives. We intend to appoint an individual who will build on the work of the founding Headteacher; who cares passionately about the children and the Academy; who will work continuously to do the best for them; who can develop and get the best from a fantastic team; who is a good communicator, comfortable with engaging with diverse audiences and deeply focused on learning. Someone who embodies our motto: love learning together.
Our vision is that every aspect of King’s Cross Academy should be the best it can possibly be. We believe every child is entitled to the highest quality learning. This means maximising children’s communication, creativity, thinking, physical learning and social and emotional skills as well as helping them to learn about learning itself.
We are still new. We’ve got good foundations, strong financial management and excellent results but we are not set in our ways. There’s plenty of areas where you can make a mark and introduce improvements. You will inherit a great staff team and support from a highly committed Governing Body. Here’s the Chair of governors Robert Evans with a message for you. KXA Recruitment video.mp4 on Vimeo
More details can be found in our headteacher pack and on our website.
For an informal chat about the role and the Academy please contact the Clerk of Governors Christine Megson, on recruitment@kingscrossacademy.org.uk
Visits can be made to the school on:
Monday 30 January – 10.00am
Tuesday 7 February – 11.00am
Wednesday 8 February – 2.00pm
Please sign up through recruitment@kingscrossacademy.org.uk
Completed Applications to be submitted to recruitment@kingscrossacademy.org.uk
Closing date: 1.00pm Monday 20 February 2023
Interview dates: Monday 6 March 2023 and Thursday 9 March 2023.
We are committed to safeguarding children and any appointment is subject to satisfactory checks and references. The Academy safeguarding policy is on our website Safeguarding - King’s Cross Academy (kingscrossacademy.org.uk) and we ask you to read this before applying for a post.
Attached documents
About King's Cross Academy
- King's Cross Academy
- Plimsoll Building, 4 Wollstonecraft Street, Kings Cross
- London
- N1C 4BT
- United Kingdom
Our story
An extraordinary part of London is taking shape at King’s Cross. One of the UK’s largest and most successful regeneration projects is transforming King’s Cross, with all its heritage and history, into a thriving new place with a growing, diverse community. At the heart of this exciting change is the new King’s Cross Academy – a purpose built primary school that offers a unique opportunity for your child to make the most of his or her potential. Located in the Plimsoll Building, the Academy opened in September 2015. The school currently hs 146 children in nursery, reception and Year 1. As the King’s Cross community continues to grow, the Academy will expand to serve 420 primary school pupils aged 4 to 11, plus the nursery. King’s Cross Academy was developed and is being run by the same people who are behind the wider King’s Cross regeneration. We want to give our pupils the best possible education and access to opportunities, so they leave school with the achievements, aspiration and confidence to be successful at secondary school and beyond.
Our vision & values
We aim to prepare children for the modern world by making them highly successful life-long learners. Our learning vision to achieve this aim has four principal themes.
Teaching pupils how to learn
King’s Cross Academy teaches pupils how to learn – encouraging qualities such as persistence, resilience, resourcefulness and flexibility – so that they develop a lifetime love of learning. Our environment will help children learn how to question, think creatively and become active learners and communicators. This will progress their emotional intelligence as well as their learning skills.
A broad, balanced and creative curriculum
The Academy provides children with a complete education. The Academy takes a rigorous approach to the teaching of core skills in Mathematics and English, as part of a broad and balanced, project-based curriculum. Our curriculum promotes children’s cross-curricular skills in listening, speaking, thinking and questioning and develops their social and emotional skills. The school is a multilingual environment with all children learning British Sign Language (BSL) through our partnership with Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children.
Creating an environment that promotes learning
It matters where and how education takes place. We draw upon the exceptional facilities of this new school and its unique relationship with nearby world class businesses and organisations, to provide activities and opportunities that inspire, excite and transform the learning of children, their parents and other adults in the community. That might mean exploring technology with Google; journalism with the Guardian; learning about medicine at the Francis Crick Institute; or understanding nutrition at the Waitrose cookery school.
Developing children to be leaders
The King’s Cross Academy develops children’s leadership skills by building our pupils’ capacity to make reasoned decisions and choices. They have the courage and the passion to exhibit their own initiative, whilst having the integrity to work in productive partnership with others. Our curriculum supports and encourages each child’s own resourcefulness and organisational skills in every aspect of school life. By doing so, children gain confidence in their own talents and their ability to learn and improve. We want children to be emotionally engaged in their learning; and our school to be a catalyst for positive change for all in the King’s Cross community.
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