Headteacher
St Peter's Catholic School
Solihull
- £90,379 - £104,687 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- L32 - L38
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2022
- Apply by:
- 13 December 2021
Job overview
Due to the impending retirement of our current Headteacher, Mrs Marie Murphy, the Governing Body of St Peter’s Catholic School wish to appoint a practising Catholic with a strong personal faith with the vision, leadership and energy to build an develop our strength as a high performing Catholic School.
St Peter’s Catholic School is a popular, oversubscribed and successful school, rated outstanding in all areas by Ofsted. We pride ourselves on the excellent academic standards that we achieve across all key stages; the pastoral care that we provide and the enrichment opportunities that we offer.
We are looking for a leader who will inspire pupils, staff, parents and governors and motivate the whole community to ensure the best possible outcomes for each individual pupil. In addition to helping pupils achieve well, staff, leaders and governors make a strong contribution to pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
The successful candidate will:
• be a committed, practising Catholic with a strong personal faith and solid moral and ethical principles and values.
• be able to deepen and strengthen the ethos and purpose of Catholic education; assisting in the Church’s universal mission and helping to serve the needs of the Parishes.
• be resilient and an individual who enjoys a positive wellbeing and health.
• have a proven record of successful leadership which has secured improved outcomes for all pupils at whole school level; progress, attainment and preparedness for education, employment and training.
• Have a clear understanding and knowledge of how to create and improve opportunities for all pupils, including the most vulnerable, to achieve their vocation by ensuring highest quality education and enrichment.
• understand the current educational climate with strong financial acumen.
In return, we can offer a:
• community of faith, where all pupils are valued and cared for.
• commitment to outstanding professional development linked to leadership at all levels.
• highly experienced Senior Leadership Team focused on continual school improvement.
• school with high expectations and high standards of achievement and behaviour.
• a dedicated and hardworking team of staff who are ambitious for all pupils, securing continual improvement in a changing educational landscape.
• positive, warm and supportive working environment where everyone feels valued and where staff wellbeing is prioritised.
For further information about the school, please visit www.st-peters.solihull.sch.uk
This is a great time to join a new MAC that is building our “family” of schools for the future. You will be expected to play your part in our strategic and operational development. It is fast paced but exciting and great time to join this Catholic MAC and further your development as a leader in Catholic education.
The application closing date is 9.00am on Monday 10th January 2022 - Please return your application to recruitment@olaas.co.uk
Shortlisting will take place on Tuesday 11th January 2022, with proposed assessment and interview dates of Thursday 20th and Friday 21st January 2022.
Visits to the school are encouraged, to arrange an appointment for week commencing Monday 13th December 2021 or if you have any questions, please contact Mrs Jennie Pate on patej@st-peters.solihull.sch.uk or 0121 703 8304.
Our Lady and All Saints Catholic Multi Academy Company is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The offer of employment is subject to the satisfactory completion of all necessary pre-employment checks. These checks include an enhanced DBS certificate, satisfactory references including absence, Childcare Disqualification check, Teacher Prohibition check, Qualifications, Health Questionnaire, Identity and the Right to Work in the UK.
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About St Peter's Catholic School
- St Peter's Catholic School
- Whitefields Road, Solihull
- West Midlands
- B91 3NZ
- United Kingdom
St. Peter’s has an excellent academic record and all pupils who come here make very good progress. We welcome children of all abilities, whether highly gifted and talented or with special needs. The school provides a broad, balanced curriculum with Religious Education at the core of all learning. We are proud of our close links with partner primary schools which enable us to place each child in the most appropriate teaching groups for their ability and needs. The groupings are constantly reviewed and each child's progress is closely monitored. After five years, a high proportion of St. Peter's pupils achieve very good grades. This is the result of their being placed carefully on appropriate pathways. A smaller, personally tailored programme of GCSEs is made available to pupils with special needs. The vast majority of our pupils continue into further education and our Sixth Form students regularly achieve entry to the most prestigious of universities, including Oxbridge.
Innovative practices in teaching and learning are embedded across the school. Our students have regular opportunities to go on trips and visits, listen to outside speakers, take part in work experience or participate in long-term projects leading to nationally recognised accreditation.
Our pastoral care system supports individual pupils and their learning and is essential to academic progress and success. Every child needs a happy, secure environment to learn well. Being personally known and cherished equally helps each one of our students to benefit from all that our school offers. At St. Peter’s, we strongly encourage all pupils to become actively involved in the pastoral life of our school, whether this be through applying to be a peer mediator and mentor; being nominated to be a form captain or a School Council representative or, for our Sixth Formers, taking part in paired tutoring to assist younger pupils with literacy or numeracy. We are immensely proud that a significant number of our pupils apply to become prefects in Year 11 and annual interviews are held to appoint our senior prefects and our Head Boy and Girl. We are passionate about ensuring that every pupil develops spiritually, morally, socially and physically. Therefore, we strongly value the extra-curricular life of our school and encourage all pupils to get involved in a wide range of clubs and activities.
A good education is the best possible preparation for adult life and at St. Peter’s we aim to ensure that every student thrives and flourishes. Our distinctiveness rests on the Catholic character and ethos of our school and this lies at the heart of everything we do. We endeavour to educate pupils in a Catholic atmosphere so that they are enabled to value life-long learning and the Gospel message can be related to everyday life and work.
In August 2015, after a rigorous selection process, we were delighted to be designated as a National Teaching School. This status has allowed us to develop our work in Initial Teacher Training, Continuing Professional Development and School-to-School Support. We currently have an Alliance of seven primary schools and five secondary schools, as well as other institutions and organisations such as The Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, The University of Warwick, Newman University and Solihull LA. The main focus of our work is School Direct, and we have a proven track record of what we call ‘growing our own’; recruiting the highest calibre trainees who then become our future teachers and leaders in school. We work closely with the Universities in the area and regularly lead training for these institutions. We also participate in a number of national projects and initiatives, such as the Return to Teaching Pilot and the Maths and Physics Internship Scheme.
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