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Principal

St Helen's Primary Academy

Barnsley, South Yorkshire

  • Expired
Salary:
L18-L24 £59,857-£68,643 (more for an exceptional candidate, relocation package available)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2018 or earlier
Apply by:
2 April 2018

Job overview

Salary: L18-L24, £59,857-£68,643 (more for an exceptional candidate, relocation package available)

NOR: 350 Age Range: 3-11

Start date: September 2018 (earlier if possible)

We are looking to appoint a dynamic and inspirational Principal who will make a real difference to the learning success of our children and bring stability to the academy.  This is an exciting prospect for a compelling leader with an impressive track record of success to inspire and empower our community. Our buildings are currently being refurbished so it’s an excellent time to bring our academy to life and reshape its future.

This will be a highly rewarding role with the potential to make a significant and sustained impact on our school and community in which it sits. 

You must be ambitious and able to:

· Have incredibly high expectations for yourself and others

· Be resilient and solution focussed

· Commit to our children and accept that only the best is good enough.

St Helens Primary Academy is part of Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) a network of 63 primary, secondary and special academies. As a member of our network, we can offer you a professional learning journey, tailored to your individual needs. Our new Principal will enjoy the autonomy of leadership rooted in the local community, whilst working in partnership with the regional cluster of academies and AET’s National Director of Primary Schools, Lauren Costello, with support from a committed local governing board. 

Closing date: Monday 2 April 2018

Interview dates: Thursday 12 April 2018 and Friday 13 April 2018 (day two will be held in London)

Visits to the academy are warmly welcomed and can be arranged by contacting Jo Grabowska, Recruitment Manager at Tes, on 020 3194 3085 or joanna.grabowska@tes.com 

For an informal discussion or for an application form, please contact Jo Grabowska on the contact details above.

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhance checks as part of our Prevent Duty.

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About St Helen's Primary Academy

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Welcome to St Helen's Primary Academy and thank you for your interest in our school. Monk Bretton village is a small community easily reached from Wakefield, Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield. Here at St Helen's, we are a proud member of the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET).

Our creative staff have a real love of teaching and we are looking for a future member of our team who can develop that sense of awe and wonder in children. The children at our school are happy, confident, fun-loving and energetic. They are passionate about their learning, be it in the traditional classroom or through drama, music, dance and painting.

We are looking for someone who can embrace these aspects of the curriculum as well as literacy and numeracy. Since June 2018, we have had a brand new leadership team who are driving St Helen’s to success. Leadership at our school is forward-thinking - and the well-being and work-life balance of our teachers is very important. We give autonomy to teachers, we have a shared ethos around curriculum, marking and feedback, which each teacher applies with their own style and personal teacher pedagogy.

We want you to give us your best and our non-negotiables are outstanding attainment and progress for every child, coupled with kindness and warm-heartedness, not what colour pen you use to mark books! Our school has been recently refurbished and is a modern, bright and attractive place for us all to work.

Our aims and expectations

We have high expectations for all children and a commitment to ensuring all children achieve high standards. We will achieve this by:

Supporting the development of children who –

  • Feel safe and know that if they have concerns they are listened to and are supported so that they thrive
  • Who can create, reflect, persevere, are resilient and aspire
  • Are able to work independently, collaboratively, as part of a team and to lead
  • Are thoughtful, have the ability to listen, are responsible and supportive of each other and have a strong work ethic
  • Are creative, analytical, critical and innovative
  • Have high expectations of themselves and each other
  • Respect themselves and others
  • Have endless curiosity, enthusiasm – who want to experience as much as possible and find out all they can

Creating a staff team who –

  • Are an expert workforce with a shared determination to do their best for every child
  • Question practice and continually try to better meet the needs of all children and are supported in this by a detailed professional development programme
  • Equip children with the life skills they will need to be independent, reflective, resilient and resourceful learners as well as continuing to raise standards in literacy and numeracy
  • Provide exciting opportunities for children to use and apply their learning to enquiry and problem solving so they develop their understanding of the world
  • Plan, monitor and evaluate teaching, learning, the curriculum and progress in the academy to ensure the development of the whole child
  • Are proactive and highly skilled at identifying vulnerable children and collaborating with other agencies so that barriers to learning are removed and all children succeed
  • Help children acquire a range of personal, social and emotional attributes essential to their health and well-being and to life as a responsible citizen
  • Develop children so they can actively participate in and contribute to the academy where they feel respected, safe and supported

In an academy which –

  • Provides a caring, stimulating and enjoyable learning environment in which all children feel respected, safe and supported
  • Provides a flexible, challenging and purposeful curriculum that is relevant to our children and prepares them for the responsibilities and experiences of life
  • Offers opportunities to engage with a wide range of cultural experiences
  • Provides a broad rich curriculum that excites them about learning and the world, is rich in IT to help children participate fully in a constantly changing world
  • Equips children with the life skills they will need to be independent, reflective, resilient and resourceful learners as well as continuing to raise standards in literacy and numeracy
  • Values and develops a supportive partnership between home, school and the community
  • Provides opportunities to engage in a wide range of activities – social, the arts, sports and cultural, that will enrich their lives and develop their confidence, social and moral skills and self-belief

So that the local community has pride and confidence in our academy and trusts that their children will succeed and do well here.

Ofsted

We are currently judged as 'requires improvement' and we were last inspected in May 2021. To view all our Ofsted reports please click here 

WHY JOIN OUR ACADEMY?

Staff Benefits

Development:

We are committed to developing all staff at all levels through high quality development opportunities, resources, and experiences  that will support you on your professional learning journey with AET.

Lifestyle:

We champion agile/flexible working across the Trust to help our people achieve an optimal work/life balance.

Money:

All staff have access to our pension schemes (Local Government Pension Scheme and Teachers’ Pension Scheme).  Everyone has free access to financial advice & support and can access a wide range of retail discounts through our AET Benefits scheme. We also offer Technology Loans to help with any big digital purchases.

Wellbeing:

We recognise that mental wellbeing is just as important as physical and have set up employee assistance programmes which offer free and confidential counselling 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our employees can access our health cash place scheme from BHSF.

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