Key Stage One Leader

Are you passionate about learning? Do you have a growth mindset? Do you want to become part of a leadership team that is committed to providing the very best opportunities for all of our children?

St John’s CE Primary School N20 is a thriving and popular one-form entry school within the London Borough of Barnet. We enjoy a family atmosphere where every child is well known and highly valued.

We have a fabulous opportunity for an outstanding Key Stage One teacher to progress their career into leadership. Our new Key Stage One Leader will be an enthusiastic and highly motivated teacher with the drive and energy to join our newly-structured aspirational leadership team.

This is a class-based leadership position. You will have overall responsibility for leading and managing KS1, including the responsibility for a core subject, leading insets and continually looking for innovative and successful ways to raise standards in teaching and learning.

We provide a happy and safe environment in which children can achieve their full potential to develop caring attitudes and respect towards others, themselves, and the whole school community. We actively develop each child’s individuality whilst ensuring equal opportunities for all. We offer a broad and balanced curriculum that encourages academic, physical, social, emotional and spiritual development.

The chosen candidate will have the following qualities:

• Be an outstanding and creative classroom practitioner who will help motivate and inspire colleagues in all aspects of teaching and learning
• Be able to take an active role in the leadership and management of the school
• Be committed to raising and maintaining children’s aspirations alongside our school’s high expectations of achievement for every child
• Have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate and support colleagues
• Have an understanding of how to use assessment and methodology to raise standards
• Support, develop and embrace the Christian ethos of the school

We are proud to offer the following prospects:

• An opportunity to join an aspirational and creative leadership team with a focus on school improvement
• An extremely popular and oversubscribed school
• An exciting, buzzing and vibrant environment
• Delightful, happy children who are willing to learn at a school that enjoys strong support and commitment from children’s families
• Leadership development, support and training to become an outstanding leader
• High quality support from the London Diocesan Board, London Borough of Barnet, the Parish Church and the Governing Board
• An opportunity to make a difference

Prospective candidates are warmly invited and encouraged to visit our school by appointment. Please contact the school office on 020 8445 4693 or email office@stjohnsn20.barnetmail.net.

Visit us at http://www.stjohnsn20.barnet.sch.uk/

Closing date: Friday 20th May
Shortlisting: Friday 20th May
Interviews: Thursday 26th May

For an application form and further details please contact the school. Completed applications forms should be returned to the school by the closing date (see above).