Headteacher
Hastings High School
Leicestershire
- Expired
- Salary:
- L29 - L35
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Autumn Term 24/08/2020
- Apply by:
- 23 February 2020
Job overview
Due to our Headteacher securing a position closer to home, The Board of Governors at Hastings High School Academy, are seeking to appoint enthusiastic, motivational, strategic focused school leadership, with proven experience of financial management, who will be willing to take the school forward from being a good school with outstanding aspects, to an outstanding school in all areas.
The school has previously gone through a journey of being a KS3 high school to now offering the complete 11-16 GCSE level educational experience. Hastings is a single academy located in the village of Burbage with convenient motorway connections.
We are proud of our ‘Hastings family’ experience, where our ethos is to value kindness, caring for all and to promote every individual to be the very best they can possibly be. The new leadership will be required to find innovative ways of leading the organisation into its next phase.
If you are excited by the information in the recruitment pack and have the professional skills and determination to lead a thriving academic community, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Applicants are welcome to visit the school and appointments can be made by contacting both Anna Murphy, am10@hastings.leics.sch.uk and Beverley Brown, bbrown5@hastings.leics.sch.uk. School will be closed from Monday 17th to Friday 21st February 2020 for half term.
The Hastings family and Board of Governors are forward thinking and as such are open to applications of single or co-headship status.
Interviews will be held over 2 days on 17th and 18th March, 2020.
Attached documents
About Hastings High School
- Hastings High School
- St Catherine's Close, Burbage
- Leicestershire
- LE10 2QE
- United Kingdom
Hastings High School opened in 1956 and is an oversubscribed, very high achieving community school within Burbage. We have recently expanded to become an 11-16 school and our first ever year 11 took their exams in 2017.
- Our pupils achieve exceptionally strong results at GCSE level, amongst the best in the county. “The proportions of pupils who achieved both a standard pass and a strong pass in English and mathematics was considerably higher than the national average in 2017” (Ofsted, 2017).
- We are a small, friendly school with a caring atmosphere and we work hard to ensure that every child feels valued and respected. “Pupils are very well cared for and individuals’ needs are well met.” (Ofsted, 2017).
- The behaviour of our pupils is exceptional. “The behaviour of pupils is outstanding. Their conduct is excellent, both in lessons and around school. Pupils are polite and welcoming to visitors” (Ofsted, 2017).
- We have a broad and balanced curriculum which includes “an extensive extra-curricular programme which ensures that pupils’ experiences are rich and varied.” (Ofsted 2017).
- Improving teaching and learning is central to our mission to be the best school we can possibly be.
- We invest considerable resources in high quality staff development and have strong links with a local Teaching School.
- Rigorous analysis of progress data and highly effective intervention systems lie at the heart of our mission to ensure that all pupils achieve their potential. “Pupils’ attainment is significantly higher than the national average in most subjects.” (Ofsted, 2017).
- We see ourselves as being at the centre of the local community and have strong links with other local schools. We also strive to maintain excellent relationships with the families of our pupils.
- Over 90% of the pupils from our 3 main feeder schools typically choose to come to us in Year 7 which facilitates the building of very strong links with Key Stage 2.
- We promote the traditional values of doing one’s best, striving to succeed, the importance of good behaviour and manners and the need to show respect for others. “..pupils are proud to be members of the school and all are keen to succeed.” (Ofsted, 2017).
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