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Headteacher

Laleham Lea School

Croydon

  • Expired
Salary:
£60,266 to £78,841
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
April or September 2025
Apply by:
14 March 2025

Job overview

Our Governors are seeking to appoint a Headteacher

Start date April or September 2025

Salary range £60,266 to £78,841

For an application pack please visit www.lalehamlea.co.uk/about-us/staff-vacancies/

Closing date for applications is March 14th 2025 at noon

Interviews on March 31st and April 1st 2025. 

Laleham Lea is a school which:

  • Is a friendly and caring Catholic school
  • Has happy and well-motivated children and staff
  • Has a supportive and professional staff team
  • Has Governors who are strongly supportive of the school
  • Has engaged and supportive parents and small class sizes

The successful candidate will be a committed, practising Catholic with experience of leadership in the independent sector.

Benefits include: free school lunch, off street parking, easy access to the M25, mainline rail stations and bus rotes, access to The Schools Advisory Service & Mental Health First Aider, the benefit of Independent School Holidays, CPD, networking opportunities locally and staff discount on school fees.

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and other Safe Recruitment employment checks. We are an equal opportunities employer.

We welcome and encourage potential applicants to visit our school and have set aside the following times: Tuesday March 4th at 2pm and 4pm

Please contact the Chair of Governors if you would like a confidential discussion or to arrange a visit mryan@lalehamlea.co.uk

Laleham Lea School, 29 Peaks Hill, Purley, Surrey CR8 3JJ

www.lalehamlea.co.uk

Registered Charity Number: 1118598


About Laleham Lea School

+44 20 86603351

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Welcome to Laleham Lea and thank you for your interest in our school. Laleham Lea is a very special place and I am incredibly proud to have been given the opportunity to lead our amazing staff team and exemplary students.

At Laleham Lea we have always firmly believed in putting the child at the centre of everything we do and this forms the solid foundation from which our students thrive.

As a Catholic school, Gospel values are at the forefront of our daily routine and flow through all that we do. We welcome children and families of all faiths who are sympathetic to our Catholic ethos. We encourage a high standard of behaviour based on values of love, respect, and a positive work ethic.
Our high academic expectations, coupled with outstanding pastoral care, help to give each and every student the best possible start to a happy and successful school life.

Our experienced teachers’ knowledge of every student helps to guide and support the development of their individual talents and skills to ensure they reach their full potential and ultimately move on to the school of their choice.

The findings of our latest ISI Inspection*, which found Laleham Lea to be ‘Excellent’ in all areas, validate the tremendous hard work of our students, staff and Governors. We continue to work alongside all of our families and our whole Laleham Lea community to provide an excellent education for each child, where children love to learn with their friends.

From the warm welcome for all at the door every day to the playground where all ages play and socialise together, the Laleham Lea family ensures that every school day is a happy one.

As they grow, our pupils become confident, fulfilled young people through both academic and extracurricular activities. A high standard of teaching and learning is central to our success. Your son or daughter will be taught in inspiring and well-equipped classrooms by teachers with specialist qualifications and experience in specific areas of the curriculum such as Science, Modern Languages, ICT, Art, Music, Drama and Sports.

Every child is also encouraged to find and cultivate their own passions outside of academic learning and display them through competitions, presentations and performance which also help to build confidence and our three key learning behaviours of resilience, respect and independence.
When the time does come to leave us, students do so with many happy memories of their time here and their ‘Laleham Lea family’.

The standards of excellence achieved at Laleham Lea mean that many of our students secure places at local Grammar Schools or obtain scholarships for leading Independent Schools. Many of our Catholic families may prefer to remain in a Catholic environment similar to that of Laleham Lea and go on to one of the many excellent local Independent and State Catholic Secondary Schools where they achieve many great things.

I hope that the information you find here inspires you to visit our Laleham Lea family, we can assure you of a very warm welcome.


Mrs. M Reece
Acting Head Teacher

*Click here to read the Inspection report in full

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