Principal
The Bushey Academy
Hertfordshire
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 2 December 2016
Job overview
Since its opening in September 2009, The Bushey Academy has relentlessly aimed to drive up standards, improve the life chances of its students and become an outstanding academy.
Today, The Bushey Academy is a high-achieving, learning-focused community where happiness is derived from achievement and positive self-esteem.
Benefiting from the double award winning £30m school building, students and staff bring life to the school vision statement through their approach to learning, both in and out of the classroom. Now heavily oversubscribed for places, The Bushey Academy is a place within which students and staff feel proud to belong.
The Bushey Academy now seeks a dynamic, ambitious and innovative Principal to help realise its ambition of becoming an outstanding academy. With a deep commitment to raising aspiration and standards across the school community, this will be a forward-looking educational leader for the 21st Century, determined to make a difference.
The Bushey Academy is a member of The Meller Educational Trust (MET). MET is a growing multi-academy trust which aims to ensure that young people are educated to an extremely high level and possess all of the skills necessary to ensure they are happy, fulfilled, socially aware, community minded and successful.
Further information on The Bushey Academy can be found at www.thebusheyacademy.org
A candidate brief is available from www.odgers.com/60264
Completed application forms and CVs should be sent by the closing date, midday Friday 2nd December, to Odgers Berndtson.
Short listed candidates will be contacted on Wednesday 7th December via telephone. Interviews will take place on Monday 12th & Tuesday 13th December at The Bushey Academy.
The Bushey Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Bushey Academy is an equal opportunities employer.
About The Bushey Academy
The Bushey Academy is 20 minutes by train from London Euston and enjoys a leafy setting close to the urban environment of Watford. We are a successful and popular 11-19 mixed secondary school that provides the highest quality of education for all learners. Our mission is to ensure that every one of our young people leave the academy fully equipped for their next stage in life, be it university or the world of work. We want all learners, on leaving, to possess excellent exam results, a well developed character, and great employability skills.
We focus on the quality of teaching and learning in the classroom, plus the high levels of care and support we offer every child. Our hard working, dedicated and skilled staff ensure that our learners are happy, safe and achieve well. We have high aspirations for all and we expect our learners o be ambitious for themselves. We want our learners to live up to our motto of 'Proud to belong' and we expect or students to show pride in their work, their appearance and in how they conduct themselves.
The facilities at The Bushey Academy are excellent and all areas of the curriculum are very well catered for in our modern building opened in 2013. We value all subjects highly, placing an equal emphasis on success in academic subjects alongside creative and vocational areas. We also have a wide and varied range of extracurricular clubs that we encourage our students to attend. We are part of the Meller Educational Trust (MET) which gives us opportunities to collaborate with other local schools, sharing best practice and learning from one another.
In July 2018 the school was awarded the Investors in People Good Practice Award for the Health and Wellbeing of our staff.
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