Headteacher
Henry Maynard Primary
Waltham Forest
- Expired
- Salary:
- L18B £65,689 - L31A £88,206
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 28 November 2019
Job overview
We are looking for an outstanding and experienced Senior Leader to join as our Headteacher. Someone who shares Henry Maynard’s vision and ethos and our passion and commitment to making the wellbeing and experience of the children at school our first priority.
Our vision
At Henry Maynard we work together to make our school an inspiring and supportive place where all children are individually challenged to achieve their full potential. To do this we focus on three areas:
- Standards - the best educational standards for all our children and staff
- Creativity - a stimulating approach to education
- Community - we celebrate our diversity
Our ethos
At school the ‘Golden Rules’ underpin all of the lessons that the children learn:
- We are gentle: we don’t hurt others
- We are kind and helpful: we don’t hurt anybody’s feelings
- We listen: we don’t interrupt
- We are honest: we don’t cover up the truth
- We work hard: we don’t waste our own or others’ time
- We look after property: We don’t waste or damage things
Henry Maynard is a vibrant community school in the heart of Walthamstow, East London. We currently have over 860 students in 28 classes arranged over the split site school. We have lots of outside space for the children to play at both sites of the school. Henry Maynard is also an outstanding training school, training 23 last year - many of whom go on to be employed at the school.
The pupils at Henry Maynard embrace and embody the full diversity of Waltham Forest with around 63% coming from ethnic minority backgrounds, and around a third speaking English as an additional language. Currently around 26% of our pupils are eligible for pupil premium and 13% have been identified as having Special Educational Needs or a disability.
HOW TO APPLY
Henry Maynard is committed to safeguarding children. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
The closing date for applications is midnight Thursday 28th November, please email all applications to s.fieldhouse@henrymaynard.waltham.sch.uk.
In addition to the application form, you will need to submit a Supporting Statement, setting out the relevant experience, skills and competencies you will bring to the role and your vision for Henry Maynard. This should outline how you meet the job description and person specification, detailed in this application pack. We want the best people in our school, so we welcome and encourage applications from teachers with a diverse variety of backgrounds, irrespective of sexuality or gender identity/expression. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all so even if you think you don't meet all the criteria, we would still love to hear from you.
If you would like to pop in to the school in advance of the interview dates, please contact s.fieldhouse@henrymaynard.waltham.sch.uk to arrange a visit.
Interviews will take place on 12th/13th December.
We look forward to meeting you.
Attached documents
About Henry Maynard Primary
Welcome to Henry Maynard Primary School and Nursery. We are a community school maintained by the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
At our school we are all totally committed to promoting a learning and teaching environment that embeds the values of inclusive educational practice through our creative, exciting and broad curriculum. We are passionate about the arts, creativity, music, sports and ensuring that children thrive through our personalised approaches. Our three values are Community, Creativity and Ambition. We believe in working together creatively to enable all children to be ambitious for themselves and each other.
Our dedicated and experienced team aims to ensure that education is accessible and relevant to all our learners and where necessary support or challenge is targeted to help children to reach their potential. We respect each other and celebrate diversity and difference.
We recognise the importance of parents and carers as partners in their children's learning journey and are very proud of the relationship we have with all of our families. We ask that parents or carers encourage and support their children's learning by reading with them regularly and talking to them about the world in which we live. Our community is hugely supportive and very involved in school life - we have an extremely active parent-teacher association called the Friends of Henry Maynard School (FoHMS) who work hard on whole school events and fundraising strategies for resources and equipment for the children.
We are actively involved in the wider local community and have strong teaching, research and partnership links with local primary and secondary schools as well as the sixth form colleges. We raise funds for local, national and international charities and have an established association with a neighbouring care home. Our classes use local places of interest for learning out of school, for example William Morris gallery, Vestry House and the Feel Good Centre swimming pool.
We believe that every child is entitled to equal access to an engaging, dynamic and relevant curriculum, regardless of race, gender, class or disability and we hope that you can see how this vital school value permeates through everything we do.
We hope you enjoy finding out more about how we learn, work and achieve together at Henry Maynard Primary and Nursery.
Jill Pughe and Roxanna Kabra
Co-Headteachers
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