Headteacher
Kesgrave High School
Ipswich
- Expired
- Salary:
- £99,424 - £114,060
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Autumn Term 2020
- Apply by:
- 19 November 2019
Job overview
With the upcoming retirement of the Headteacher, the Local Governing Body for Kesgrave High School, on behalf of the EAST Board of Trustees, is seeking to appoint a new Headteacher.
Kesgrave High School (KHS) is a unique, large 11 - 18 school in the town of Kesgrave on the eastern outskirts of Ipswich. As well as serving Kesgrave, the school draws students from a large semi-rural area and the north-eastern area of Ipswich. KHS has an extensive campus with enviable open spaces and sports facilities and has a significant reputation for its drama and musical productions and its wide range of extra-curricular activities.
The school pioneered the 3-period day with a fortnightly timetable, allowing students to fully engage with their studies. Our wide curriculum offering allows us to give our young people lifelong learning through team working, communication, negotiation and empathy with the school proudly providing a grounded and broad education for all its students, preparing them for the needs of the 21st century, whatever their post-18 plans.
Our new Headteacher will have drive, tenacity, excellent leadership skills and strategic vision to continue to develop this popular, oversubscribed school. Kesgrave High School is a founding member of the East Anglian Schools' Trust within which individual schools retain their own identity. KHS will continue working closely with its primary schools with an aim to provide an outstanding, inclusive and aspirational education for the children of our community.
As an inspirational and strategic leader valuing diversity and respecting difference, you will demonstrate a track record of achievement. You will already be an existing Headteacher or have extensive experience within the Senior Leadership of a large secondary school. You will have the talent and enthusiasm to inspire, motivate and be aspirational for students and staff alike.
With exceptional interpersonal skills, you will be adept at communicating to a range of audiences and be driven by your values and desire to use your leadership to transform the lives of Kesgrave's students, staff and community. Ensuring we have a sustainable staff community will be an essential part of the role, as will be nurturing talented staff for leadership roles both here and elsewhere.
You are invited to visit Kesgrave High School. To arrange an appointment, please contact Julie Garnett, Head's PA via email: jgarnett@kesgrave.suffolk.sch.uk
You are requested to complete a Kesgrave High School Teachers Application Form which can be downloaded from our website.
As part of the application process, please submit a covering letter describing (in no more than 1,000 words) why you are applying for this post.
Completed application forms should be emailed to: jgarnett@kesgrave.suffolk.sch.uk
Closing date: midday, 19 November 2019.
Shortlisting: 20 November 2019.
Interview dates: 4 and 5 December 2019 (2-day process).
We are legally obliged to ask you to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. If you are invited to interview, you will be asked to provide appropriate documents such as your full birth certificate / passport / work permit in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and a comprehensive screening process will be undertaken on all applicants. This will include an enhanced check with the Disclosure and Barring Service. Kesgrave High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
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About Kesgrave High School
- Kesgrave High School
- Main Road, Kesgrave, Ipswich
- Suffolk
- IP5 2PB
- United Kingdom
About Kesgrave High School
We are proud of staff and students at Kesgrave High School and we expect them to take a pride in all that they do. We have a strong pastoral system, high academic standards and clear and fair behaviour expectations. Our experience tells us that children thrive in an environment that sets firm boundaries, is consistent in its expectations and which builds relationships that set the tone for learning
We provide an environment in which our students feel safe and are encouraged to grow, often challenging their own expectations. Our positive, inclusive approach ensures that students make the most of their talents and potential. We are lucky to have a school environment which befits these expectations, investing in their futures through the latest technology and facilities.
We encourage students to take responsibility, to be curious and to have a thirst for knowledge. Students learn from each other, as well as from their experienced and skilled teachers, in a supportive learning environment where everyone is valued.
Relationships within and beyond the classroom are positive and help us to secure the best possible outcomes for our young people. Teachers, associate staff, parents and carers all work together to help our young people to progress.
Our Culture and Ethos
Kesgrave High School is proud to be 'more than just a school'. Our ethos is at the heart of everything we do:
'Be Positive, Be Respectful, Be Your Best'.
- We have an ethos of purposeful learning with a sense of adventure and challenge, where students and staff are empowered to experiment and develop exciting learning opportunities.
- Our practice and development is rooted in evidence-based research.
- Class sizes are kept as low as possible. On average, a KS4 class has 22 students and at KS5 12 students.
- Our three period day means that staff and students have a break after every lesson to ensure smooth transitions between lessons and a calm purposeful learning environment.
- All departments have access to a designated curriculum administrator who helps drive improvements and reduce workload for teaching staff enabling them to focus on their core activities.
- Team rooms for all departments help build supportive, collaborative relationships and facilitate shared planning time.
- The majority of meetings are dedicated to Teaching and Learning.
- Departmental development is focussed on clear and manageable priorities rooting our work in the cornerstones of the best classroom practice.
- Lesson observations are for the purpose of teacher development and sharing of best practice. We discuss how to get better.
- There is no prescribed template for lesson planning. Our Teaching and Learning Principles focus on Subject Knowledge, Challenge, Modelling, Review and Retrieval, Questioning, Feedback and Oracy.
Headteacher
Julia Upton
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