Headteacher
Balcarras School
Gloucestershire
- Expired
- Salary:
- L25-29
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 1st 2021
- Apply by:
- 28 September 2020
Job overview
The High School Leckhampton is a new, purpose built, 11-16 comprehensive secondary school, which will open in September 2021 as part of The Balcarras Multi Academy Trust.
We are looking for an exceptional educator to lead the development of this exciting project. The outstanding leader we are seeking to appoint will be able to demonstrate:
• Proven experience of leadership within a successful secondary school
• The leadership skills to inspire and engage with staff, pupils, parents and the local community
• The resilience, energy and vision to establish the school on strong foundations so that in five years time it will rival Balcarras as one of the best schools in the country
• A sound awareness of current and future educational developments
• A strong grasp of school and financial administration
• A track record as an excellent classroom practitioner with a strong commitment to comprehensive education
Exceptional communication skills, combined with interpersonal warmth and humour are seen as prerequisites by the Trustees. A demonstrable interest in the wider educational community would be beneficial.
Ideally the successful applicant will be available to take up the post in January 2021, (initially based at the Balcarras School site), to prepare for the opening of the new school to 120 Year 7 pupils only in September 2021. This is a rare and exciting opportunity to develop a new school up to its capacity of 900 pupils, in a wonderful location in south Cheltenham against a backdrop of The Cotswold Hills.
For further details please visit the Balcarras website: www.balcarras.gloucs.sch.uk or
The High School Leckhampton website: www.newschoolcheltenham.co.uk or
contact the Clerk to the Trustees, Mrs Nicki Harrington: njh@balcarras.gloucs.sch.uk (telephone: 01242 515881)
Details on how to apply are included in the Information for Applicants booklet.
Closing date for applications: Monday 28th September, 9am
Candidates selected for interview will be notified by Wednesday 30th September and interviews will take place on Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th October.
The Balcarras Trust is committed to safeguarding, safer recruitment and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
It is the Trust’s policy to employ the best qualified personnel and to provide equal opportunity for the advancement of employees including promotion and training and not to discriminate against any person because of their race, colour, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion or religious belief, disability or age. All new posts within the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
A copy of the Trust’s recruitment policy is available on our website. Please take the time to read it.
Attached documents
About Balcarras School
- Balcarras School
- East End Road, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham
- Gloucestershire
- GL53 8QF
- United Kingdom
Our aim at Balcarras is simple: we want this to be one of the very best schools in the country. We aim to ensure that our students receive a better education here than they would at any other school, be it comprehensive, grammar or independent. To this end we were delighted recently to win The Sunday Times Southwest State School of the Decade Award.
We pride ourselves that this is a school where every individual is valued and feels safe, where all students are inspired not only to do their best but to expand their horizons, and where everyone involved in school life feels a great sense of pride and enjoyment at being part of this community.
We are keen to emphasise not just academic success but those areas which bring colour and vitality to the student experience, such as art, drama, sport, music and the full range of extra-curricular activities on offer. I do hope that this visit to the school’s website will give you a flavour of some of these things and an insight into what makes the school a special place to be.
If you would like to follow up your virtual tour with a real one please get in touch.
Dominic Burke
Headteacher
We want Balcarras to continue to be regarded as one of the very best schools in the country. We are proud of our values:
- We believe that all children have a right to feel safe at school and we endeavour to make sure that every student is engaged and inspired by their education
- We believe fundamentally in the value of comprehensive education
- We believe that all children should receive an outstanding education regardless of ability, prior attainment or background
- We are committed to inclusion and we will continue to strive to make sure that our provision for children with Special Educational Needs or Disability is second to none
- We believe in a partnership with parents, business and the local community
- We believe that the school should provide a wide range of extra-curricular opportunities
- We are committed to the highest academic standards
We continue to set the same priorities:
High Attendance
Excellent Behaviour
making what takes place in the Classroom the most important thing we do
Finally we continue to strive to make Balcarras exceptional by putting
Extra curricular
Environment
and Enjoyment at the heart of everything that we do
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