Prep School Deputy Head
Bedford Preparatory School
Bedford
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 5 February 2021
Job overview
We wish to appoint an outstanding candidate for September 2021 to assist the Headmaster in leading and managing staff and boys in this forward-thinking school. Bedford Prep educates boys from 7-13 and is a thriving, dynamic independent school with first class facilities, small class sizes and enthusiastic pupils.
The post will suit an ambitious Head of Department or Director of Studies who is looking to further their career. The successful candidate will be a talented and passionate leader, with the experience and drive to contribute fully to the future development and continuous improvement of the Prep School. The Deputy Head will take a leading role in the Prep School’s Senior Leadership Team.
The School has its own salary scale (well above national scales) and the post will be rewarded in accordance with the importance of the position. There is substantial fee remission for children of teaching staff in all the Harpur Trust Schools in Bedford.
For further details and an application pack please visit our website: www.bedfordschool.org.uk/academic-staff-vacancies
Please send completed applications to Amy Bell, HR Assistant at: vacancies@bedfordschool.org.uk.
Closing date: Noon on Friday 5 February 2021
Interview date: Thursday 25 February 2021
The Harpur Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references and other checks.
Bedford School is part of The Harpur Trust
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About Bedford Preparatory School
Awarded five stars in Fortune’s World’s Leading Boarding Schools in 2023 and named ‘Independent Boys School of the Year 2021’, Bedford Prep School is lauded for “its holistic school experience, tailored to the specific needs of the all-boys community, designed to ensure that students’ individual qualities are nurtured without inhibition and lived without awkwardness, so that they be good men.”
We believe that boys learn best when they’re happy and confident, and their curiosity is stimulated, so we feel it’s very important that learning is fun, creative, inspirational and active. We also recognise boys learn differently to girls, and this informs our teaching.
Whether it’s music and the arts, science and technology, language and literature, or sports and games, boys are encouraged to learn new skills and embrace new experiences.
Visit our classes and you’ll find boys thoroughly engaged in their learning, inspired by challenge, competition, high expectations and risk within a safe environment. Our expectations are high but achievable, and our curriculum encompasses and transcends the National Curriculum, uniting traditional practice with innovative teaching, and the best of the creative and academic.
Our extensive campus offers boys outstanding academic, sporting, music, drama and art facilities. The Prep School is set in a discrete part of the estate, and we share the swimming pool, recreation centre, playing fields, astro and tennis courts with the Upper School and make use of the school’s fantastic theatre and other specialist facilities.
Working with each and every boy, we help them develop their sporting talents. We provide expert coaching in a wide variety of sports, including rugby, hockey, cricket, golf, skiing, horse riding, cross country, swimming, badminton and rowing.
Creative arts are a big part of school life, with boys taking part in concerts, exhibitions and performances throughout the year. In our dedicated music building with a state-of-the-art music technology suite and well-equipped practice rooms, many of our boys learn to play one or more instruments.
Boys can also get involved in a wide range of extra-curricular activities, from cookery to steel band, chess to canoe building, there is something for every boy.
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