Principal
Highams Park School
Waltham Forest
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Scale L37-L43 (Currently) - £105,509 - £120,513
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2023 start
- Apply by:
- 4 July 2022
Job overview
HIGHAMS PARK SCHOOL
Handsworth Avenue, Highams Park, E4 9PJ
Principal
January 2023 start
Salary: Leadership Scale L37-L43 (Currently) - £105,509 - £120,513
This is an incredibly unique opportunity to lead a local school during the next stage of its development as it moves into new state of the art buildings. Highams Park is a well respected, successful and popular 11-18 fully comprehensive single Academy Trust (1500 on roll). The forward thinking and supportive Board of Trustees are now seeking to appoint an experienced, highly motivated and collaborative leader. They must be committed to ensuring students and staff have the opportunity to achieve their personal best both educationally and morally.
We want a “can do” Principal for our school, who:
- has the ability to balance the expectations of the highest educational standards with a determination to continually develop learning for students, staff and the local community.
- consistently models support and respect for others and provides opportunities for students to develop their own spiritual and moral capacities alongside an appreciation of their own and other cultures.
- champions a cheerful, fair, honest and hard- working ethos where all members of the community are supported to enable them to play an active role in a caring, safe, thriving and healthy community.
- has a proven record as a resilient, creative, successful and strategic senior leader with excellent interpersonal skills, adept at communicating confidently to a range of audiences.
- embodies the school’s core values and continues to strive to fulfil our vision ‘Success through our Endeavours’.
Please email the HR Manager, Mrs Sharon Croft via scroft@highamsparkschool.co.uk or go to our website www.highamsparkschool.co.uk for further information.
Please complete our application form which can be downloaded from our website and
return to the PA to the Principal, Mrs Gina Deen at gdeen@highamsparkschool.co.uk by
Monday, 4 th July 2022 at 4pm.
Interviews will be held on Tuesday, 12th July 2022 and Wednesday, 13th July 2022. The school community welcomes you to make a pre-application visit. If you wish to make an informal visit to the school, please contact Mrs Deen on her direct line 0208 501 9434 or via her email.
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About Highams Park School
Highams Park School is a mixed 11-18 comprehensive school serving the local area.
On the 1st October 2011 it became an Academy. As an Academy it is run by Highams Park Academy Trust, a charitable company limited by guarantee. The Highams Park Academy Trust is the equivalent of the Governing Body for the school.
There are over 1,600 pupils and students including approximately 500 in the 6th Form. The school is very popular and normally receives around 5 applications for every 1 place in the school. The school regularly achieves excellent exam results that usually place it at the top of the local area school performance tables. Most of the 6th Form go on to university, some to the most prestigious.
We aim to provide a calm but purposeful atmosphere with a clearly defined pattern of behaviour and dress. Considerable emphasis is placed on developing caring and considerate attitudes in our pupils. We recognise the value of the individual and make every effort to provide opportunities for children to succeed not only in academic work but also in every aspect of life. The staff have high expectations and we organise a rigorous curriculum to stretch every pupil. Children's progress is carefully monitored and their progress is reported regularly to parents. The school aims to challenge and stretch every pupil from those with learning difficulties to the talented or very able. The curriculum is carefully balanced and aims to prepare children to go out into a challenging technological society equipped with the relevant attitudes and skills.
We believe that schoolwork cannot always be completed during the school day and therefore a programme of homework is organised for all pupils, which takes account of their age and ability. Tasks are set to do at home which may include assignments and investigative work as well as more traditional work.
We place considerable emphasis on parental involvement in education and we see the whole process as a partnership. The pastoral system is organised in such a way that parents have contact throughout the five years with one tutor who will know their children's needs and problems. Any parent is welcome to discuss a problem with the tutor of the Head of Year as appropriate. As well as the usual pattern of Open Evenings there is considerable parental consultation throughout the year.
In order to achieve our aim of overall development for each pupil a comprehensive range of extra-curricular activities is organised by the staff. These include participation in every major sport, dance, drama, music and a variety of clubs. These take place before school, at lunchtime, after school and on Saturday mornings. There are also opportunities for the children to participate in residential courses, field work and educational visits.
We are extremely proud of the pupils` achievements and the facilities available for them. Their achievements are made possible through the dedicated hard work of the highly talented and professional teachers that we are lucky to have at Highams Park.
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