Principal Deputy Headteacher
Kingsmeadow Community Comprehensive School
Gateshead
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Skill Range L18 - L22 (Dependent on experience)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2017
- Apply by:
- 3 February 2017
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an energetic, motivated, and inspirational Deputy Headteacher to join the Leadership Team of our vibrant school.
- Do you have the skills and experience to be able to contribute to our rapidly improving school? Are you an inspirational leader, strategic thinker and creative problem-solver?
- Are you aspirational with the highest ambition for our learners, staff and community?
- Do you set the highest professional expectations and act as an effective role model across the school?
- Are you bold, optimistic and passionate to enable others to achieve more than they ever thought possible?
If so we would like to hear from you and in return you will benefit from:
- A school full of happy students who thrive, behave exceptionally well and are confident learners.
- An ethos of high expectations and support for both students and staff.
- Becoming part of a valued professional team.
- Excellent CPD opportunities and investment to ensure succession planning for the future.
- A staff team that will support and inspire you to become the best you can be in a culture of continuous improvement.
The successful candidate will move into areas of work which will match their skills set.
The closing date for applications is noon Friday 3rd February 2017
Visits to the school are welcomed. Please contact the Headteacher's PA, Audrey Rodaway on 0191 4606004 or at arodaway@kingsmeadow.org.uk to book an appointment.
Kingsmeadow School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and expects all staff to share this commitment. Pre-employment checks will be completed to establish the suitability of the candidate.
Further details and an application form are available from Mrs Rodaway, or they can be found on our website www.kingsmeadow.org.uk
11-18 Mixed Comprehensive 684 on roll
Kingsmeadow - Gateshead
About Kingsmeadow Community Comprehensive School
- Kingsmeadow Community Comprehensive School
- Market Lane, Dunston, Gateshead
- Tyne And Wear
- NE11 9NX
- United Kingdom
Kingsmeadow Community Comprehensive School is a mixed, non-denominational community secondary school and sixth form for pupils aged 11-18. The school is operated by Gateshead Council, and has about 950 pupils. It is located in Dunston in the north east of England.
Head Teacher
Mr Mark Barrett
Values and vision
At Kingsmeadow Community Comprehensive School pride is taken in ensuring that every aspect of the school’s work and development is focused around the school aims of inspiring minds, opening hearts and transforming lives. The aim is that all members of the community will be the best that they can be by challenging them to achieve their full potential.
The school aims to understand the aspirations and needs of all its pupils. It aspires to help all students realise their dreams and promotes opportunities to nurture moral, social, spiritual and cultural education. Kingsmeadow aims to celebrate success at every opportunity, and aspires to be thorough, rigorous and encouraging when preparing pupils for their future. The school promotes a digitally inclusive school.
The school body works hard to maintain developments and is constantly seeking challenges to develop practice through collaboration with other like minded schools and groups. The aim is to constantly seek to innovate and improve the offer for students and the local community. While academic success is important, the commitment to the Kingsmeadow CHARACTER curriculum and the focus on PBL ensures a platform for developing well equipped, well rounded, knowledgeable citizens of the world community.
Ofsted
"Teachers teach about the importance of respect, integrity, compassion, courage, pride and quality. They set a good example and pupils conduct themselves maturely."
"The school is inclusive. There is an LGBT group which gives pupils a voice."
"Changes in the curriculum mean that more pupils now study a more academic diet. They apply themselves well in lessons. They work calmly and studiously."
"Lessons in the sixth form challenge students’ thinking."
"Leaders and governors have a clear vision for the role of education in their community. They are determined to raise aspirations, improve academic achievement and foster pupils’ character."
View Kingsmeadow Community Comprehensive School’s latest Ofsted report
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