Headteacher
The Campion School
Havering
- £93,724 - £116,010 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Spine Points 32-41 (Group 7)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2022
- Apply by:
- 24 January 2022
Job overview
The Governors invite applications for the post of Headteacher at The Campion School from September 2022, owing to the retirement of the current Headmaster.
We are excited by the prospect of being able to welcome a new leader into our community, able to build on an ethos of living as men and women for others inspired by the Gospel values.
We have strong and proud traditions as a mixed ability School which looks to offer its pupils a variety of academic, spiritual, sporting, musical, drama, social and community opportunities throughout their school lives. Achievements are celebrated at every level and an aspiring ethos drives students and staff. GCSE and A Level performance continue to excel and consistently high proportions of students leave the School for university study, including impressive numbers of Oxbridge applicants.
The School had a very positive Section 8 Ofsted Inspection on 24/25 November 2021 and we look forward to publishing the finalised report once available, expected to be in late January 2022.
Details of previous Ofsted and Brentwood Diocesan Inspections can be found on the School’s website.
The successful applicant will build on the School’s aspirational approach to all of its endeavours and move forward with new and fresh perspectives and experiences which will further shape and develop the educational opportunities and experiences of Campion students and staff.
The School embraces its responsibilities within its wider community. It fosters a strong sense of civic awareness within students and staff which can be seen in the variety of activities undertaken by them, ranging from nationally recognised charitable fund raising campaigns to distribution of local food parcels, annual Christmas Senior Citizens’ parties to feeder school mini Olympics - striving to make practical differences to people’s lives. We would like the successful applicant to clearly lead in this sphere too as we live as men and women for others as a community.
It is our expectation that the successful applicant will lead the School in a way that shows strategic and creative vision and communicate in a way that motivates and empowers students and staff.
The Campion School is a very popular Catholic Academy Trust School situated in the London Borough of Havering to the east of London within the Brentwood Diocese. The School’s intake is enriched by students from a wide variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds - all boys for Years 7 - 11 with a mixed Sixth Form, with applications for both Year 7 and Sixth Form entry heavily over-subscribed with 1210 pupils on the School roll.
The School became an Academy Trust in 2011 and has worked hard since its conversion to establish firm financial foundations including maximising the local community’s use of its premises. Please see the School’s annual report and accounts.
Consideration will be given to relocation assistance for the successful candidate.
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About The Campion School
The Campion School is a truly great school with a rich history and tradition. It was established by the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits) with a strong sense of community. St Edmund Campion is one of the most famous English Jesuits who was martyred for his faith in 1581. Faith and leading a life that is faith-full threads through all that we do in school life.
The school has developed its own distinct Catholic ethos building on the foundation stones laid by The Jesuits over 60 years ago. The Campion Community now stretches all around the world with ex-students taking all that they learn here at school into the communities that they now serve. Campion’s uniqueness is its belief in service and community which feature prominently at school and in the character of the students leaving the school. The Campion School provides an education not just for life in school but beyond so that students make a difference to the communities in which they live.
Students also achieve incredible results both at GCSE and A-Level and we are a highly academic school. Around 100 girls form part of our Sixth Form which has expanded in recent years. Sixth Form students play a prominent role in school-life.
The school provides a rich abundance of opportunities for students. We have a proud tradition in rugby and music but within all the academic and co-curricular activities, students develop the Campion Character. They learn to enact virtues by being charitable, courageous, forgiving, grateful, honest, humble and resilient. These virtues become habits which will enable all students to be successful both at school and beyond.
Our School Vision
Developing faithfully in hope and holiness while learning and serving our community through our virtuous actions.
Our Heritage
Founded in 1962 by the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits) in the Diocese of Brentwood. On opening, students were transferred from St Ignatius School in Enfield. The Jesuit Priests paid for the school building by saving their money over a 20-year period.
Our Virtues
Through teaching, pastoral support, spiritual development, enrichment and community service students have the opportunities to develop their character through virtuous actions which include being:
Charitable, Courageous, Forgiving, Grateful, Honest, Humble and Resilient
Although there will inevitably be other virtues that we develop, students, staff and governors have identified these plus those within our vision and mission as being unique to our school.
Our Mission Statement
The Campion School is part of the Catholic Community with a shared mission to make Christ known to all young people. We support families to develop young people that follow in Christ’s example. Our students, through loving compassionate action, aim to be agents for social justice in society.
Campion students have always taken action to support the community and these actions carry on today through the many charitable activities we conduct. We believe that what the School offers is, above all else, opportunity. We offer our students the opportunity to learn in a safe, secure and nurturing environment, that enables all to make great progress both academically and in their personal development so they become ‘Men and Women for Others’.
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