Headteacher
Barnwood Park School
Gloucestershire
- £93,902 - £108,776 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership 29 - 35
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2024
- Apply by:
- 5 April 2024
Job overview
We are seeking a Headteacher with proven leadership skills, vision, drive, resilience and compassion to bring out the best in our staff and improve the school.
Barnwood Park is a popular, over-subscribed Local Authority maintained school serving the eastern edge of Gloucester. Formerly a girls’ comprehensive school, we finally became a six-form entry, fully Co-Ed school in September 2022. We are proud of our school’s inclusive ethos and its happy, secure learning environment. Governors are currently actively exploring the benefits of joining a Multi-Academy Trust with a strong shared approach to school improvement. Most secondary schools in the area have already become academies within the multi-academy trust framework.
In July 2019 OFSTED found us to be a ‘Good’ school, commenting, ‘Over the last 3 years the progress that pupils make by the end of Year 11 has improved. This is now significantly above the national average. … this continues to be the case, including at key stage 3.’ Since the pandemic, progress has dipped and the school is now working hard to make the improvements required to restore our status to ‘Good’.
We are seeking an experienced leader to continue this improvement, particularly in the areas of teaching, assessment, learning and curriculum. Behaviour and pastoral care have improved significantly in the last year; attendance remains a challenge, as does meeting the needs of our high numbers of students with EHC plans.
This is an exciting time to be taking on leadership at our school as it enters a new phase of accelerated development from a secure base of popularity and student oversubscription.
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About Barnwood Park School
- Barnwood Park School
- St. Lawrence Road, Gloucester
- Gloucestershire
- GL4 3QU
- United Kingdom
Barnwood Park is a popular, six-form entry comprehensive school that has expanded over recent years. Formerly a girls’ school, we became fully Co-Ed in September 2022. The current NOR is 890 and we employ 130 staff. We are oversubscribed with over 186 first choice applications for 180 places in Y7 for September 2024
An Introduction to Barnwood Park School
We are proud to have been judged solidly ‘Good’ by OFSTED in June 2014 and again in July 2019. In 2015 we were designated as one of the country’s ‘most improved’ schools.
We are currently a Local Authority maintained school, the only secondary school in the City of Gloucester to be so, but Governors are now actively exploring joining a MAT. The Gloucester secondary school system has mixed comprehensive schools alongside selective grammar schools.
The school serves the eastern side of Gloucester. Most of our students come from contrasting areas of the city, drawing a truly culturally, socially and academically diverse intake. Most students live less than a mile from the school. We have a higher-than-average number of students eligible for Pupil Premium.
A significant proportion of our teaching is to mixed ability groups. Ensuring the good progress of higher attaining and Pupil Premium students remains a key focus in our development and CPD plans. We are confident that students with good rates of attendance will make at least good progress at Barnwood Park: we continue to strive to ensure all students and their families understand the importance of good attendance.
The school is well-staffed with loyal and hardworking teaching and support staff. The condition of the buildings is mixed with some relatively new additions (a Sports Hall, Dance and Drama Studios, IT suite, DT room and Physics Lab) and other areas in significant need of refurbishment/replacement.
To find out more about Barnwood Park School please:
• look at the school’s website: www.barnwood-park.gloucs.sch.uk
• read our OFSTED report: https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/23/115720
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