Principal Designate
Hope Community School Sidcup
Northfleet, Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- Group 3 (L19 – L24), dependant on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Start date: January 2017 (or as soon as possible after this)
- Apply by:
- 13 September 2016
Job overview
Could your inspiring leadership establish and shape a new primary school?
This is a rare opportunity for a person who has a track record of achievement in education, with vision and skills to set up, open and lead our new primary school and create an exemplar model of education.
Inspiring children to be people who not only value their community but have the desire, ability and tools to transform and enrich it through innovative and aspirational visions. Encouraging children to dream limitlessly, explore confidently, discover expectantly and take ownership of their futures.
Hope Community School has the vision of being an outstanding school with a community of pupils, parents and teachers determined to achieve success.
New Generation Schools Trust is partnering with local businesses and organisations to start a new primary school which will be at the heartbeat of the community. A school that will increase children’s aspirations, encourage a spirit of adventure and maximise each child’s talents and gifts.
We are looking for an outstanding leader with:
- A proven record of strong strategic leadership and management in a primary setting
- Successful, rapid school improvement track record with a determination to raise standards
- Energy and drive to support the schools as we grow into a Multi-Academy Trust
- Robust financial management experience
- A commitment to engage with and serve the whole community in which the school is situated
- Able to rally people around a vision with an entrepreneurial approach to providing outstanding education for all
- A great networker of students, families, communities and community organisations
Who is:
- Highly motivated and able to build a culture that raises aspirations and educational standards in both staff and pupils
- Able to lead, inspire and ensure that teaching and learning is outstanding across a school that serves a community which includes some high levels of deprivation
- Willing to engage with and serve the whole community in which the school is situated to create a dynamic community nucleus
- Someone who fully shares the ethos of Hope Community School including creating a school with Christian values and foundations
- Able to handle the kind of media and local interest that a free school may bring
We would consider applications from colleagues working as a co-head team.
The Principal will work collaboratively with the New Generation Trust and the local governing bodies to support, challenge, inspire and resource the team so as to achieve aspirational outcomes for all of the pupils.
Taking up the post as Principal Designate from January 2017 (or as soon as possible after this date), you will set up, open and lead an all-new primary co-educational Free School opening in September 2017. You will recruit and shape your staff team and develop the curriculum to raise the achievement and aspiration of our young people. You will lead the development of innovative and outstanding Teaching and Learning across the School, most importantly by being a role model of outstanding practice. You will lead the implementation of a rigorous self-evaluation schedule which will quality assure and monitor the Teaching and Learning, ensuring consistency across the whole School.
The school will be designated as a school of Christian character, underpinned by Christian values. Our school will welcome children, families and staff of all faiths and no faith, enabling all to work together towards the common good of the whole community. Within the life of Hope Community School our Christian ethos will be expressed through the behaviour of staff, parents and carers, volunteers and family members. We would expect the suitable candidate to be fully supportive of this ethos.
If you have a disability and require any reasonable adjustments that will enable you to apply for this position, then please let us know.
Closing date: 12pm on 14th September 2016
Interview dates: 20th September in Sidcup and if successful at that stage then 23rd September in Northfleet
To apply or for further information please email mary.rouse@newgenschools.org or phone: 07792 629099 for the information pack and application form.
The successful candidate will be appointed subject to the successful completion of the Funding Agreement between New Generation Schools Trust and the Department for Education and on receipt of appropriate references, medical and DBS checks.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks.
Attached documents
About Hope Community School Sidcup
- Hope Community School Sidcup
- 167 Rectory Lane, Sidcup
- Kent
- DA14 5BU
- United Kingdom
A school which is the heartbeat of the community; reaching out to local families to increase children's aspirations, encourage a spirit of adventure and maximise each child's talents and gifts. We will do this through underpinning the Christian values of generosity and hospitality to create community pioneers. Inspiring children to be people who not only value their community but have the desire, ability and tools to transform and enrich it through innovative and aspirational visions. Encouraging children to dream limitlessly, explore confidently, discover expectantly and take ownership of their futures.
We believe in education for all, allowing each child to enjoy and achieve their full potential at school. We want every child, no matter their ability, ethnicity or background to thrive throughout their education. We intend to create an encouraging and inclusive environment that extends beyond academics and into the community, using links with local businesses, offering practical and vocational opportunities as well as traditional pathways. We want to create an exciting and vibrant school that celebrates achievement and diversity. Education should be engaging and we want to inspire children to learn and develop beyond the walls of a School. Our vision is to link school and community, teaching the value of each other, in order to better prepare both for their futures…
Hope Community School will be a mainstream Primary School for children aged 4-11
‘Hope’ for us is the joyful expectation of good and positive outcomes happening in the child’s life, the opposite of despair.
‘Community’ is not just about the children of the school– it’s about their families. It’s not just the families it’s about their neighbours. It’s not just the neighbours it’s their workplaces, not just the work place it’s the surrounding areas and the people and places they have an effect on.
Our ideal ‘Community’ is where there are no walls or barriers between people, nothing that divides the community. It is a place where people respect and seek to help each other, where there is social harmony and desire amongst all to forward and positively benefit the people and places around them.
Around the clock tower of the proposed school building is carved “be the children of light” which is our hope for the pupils of HCS. We want the community to recognise the children as they walk to school by their behaviour. We want the local shop staff to recognise children from HCS for their manners, politeness and respect for all people. We want businesses to recognise children from HCS for their investigative and entrepreneurial thinking. We want the community to recognise our pupils by their willingness to help beyond themselves.
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