Senior Deputy Head
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Shrewsbury School
Shropshire
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April or September 2022
- Apply by:
- 27 October 2021
Job overview
Shrewsbury School is looking for an outstanding leader to fulfil the newly created role of Senior Deputy Head from April or September 2022. The current acting post-holder is moving on to Headship in January 2022. This opportunity to lead and serve a thriving co-educational boarding and day school would suit an individual with diverse leadership attributes, a genuine affinity for the distinctive ethos and atmosphere of Shrewsbury and the intention to move on to Headship.
Winner of the Independent School of the Year 2020, Shrewsbury School is one of the leading co-educational boarding and day schools in the world. With a history stretching back more than 450 years, the school has a strong global reputation for the breadth and quality of its curriculum, the provision of its facilities and resources, and the achievements – whether academic, sporting, musical, theatrical, or artistic – of its pupils. Shrewsbury is also able to offer a world-class British education to pupils overseas through its expanding network of international schools.
Shrewsbury’s aim is to pursue academic excellence within the context of a seven-day boarding community that is committed to whole person education. The school aims to capture a spirit of serious fun. Pupils are engaged in a learning process that combines a love of learning with the intellectual rigour and critical skills that will prepare them not only to produce impressive public examination results, but also to be empathetic and active contributors to the world beyond the school gates.
Reporting directly to the Headmaster, Leo Winkley, the Senior Deputy Head will have responsibility for the day-to-day running of the school, and work across a full range of operational and strategic matters, including deputising for him in his absence. The Senior Deputy Head will be an exceptional leader and communicator with strongly held educational values that align with the strategic mission and educational aims of Shrewsbury School. The successful candidate will have a collaborative and enabling style that will help them to bring the best out of others.
Further information on Shrewsbury can be found at www.shrewsbury.org.uk and a candidate brief is available from www.odgers.com/83458.
Letters of application, CVs and application forms should be submitted by the closing date, 09:00 GMT on Wednesday 27 October, to Freddie Dennis at Odgers Berndtson.
Shrewsbury School 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.
About Shrewsbury School
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A brief history of Shrewsbury:
Shrewsbury School, Independent School of the Year 2020, has a world-class reputation for all-round excellence. Fully co-educational, with a seven-day boarding heartbeat and an integral day community, the school delivers a dynamic education that develops the abilities and enthusiasms of each and every pupil.
Founded by Royal Charter in 1552, Shrewsbury School is one of the ‘great’ nine schools in England identified by the Clarendon Commission of 1861. The School moved to its current location in 1882. Over the centuries it has grown in size and reputation. Girls first joined the Sixth Form in 2008 and it is now ranked amongst the leading co-educational boarding schools in the world, educating around 830 pupils aged 13-18 years.
Shrewsbury delivers a programme of academic learning that is exciting, challenging, responsive and versatile. On the School’s breath-taking 105-acre site on the banks of the River Severn, pupils also have the opportunity to participate in a wide range of sporting, music, drama and co-curricular activities, as well as being encouraged to engage in adventure and charitable endeavour.
Our Ethos:
The celebration of individuals and individual talent is central to education at Shrewsbury – both in and beyond the classroom. In whatever sphere, a pupil will find a member of staff to support and encourage, enthuse and inspire him or her to exceed their expectations and meet the challenges that lie ahead with confidence and good judgement.
Life at Shrewsbury is founded on a close partnership between staff, parents and pupils to promote the strength of family life, foster responsibility, and balance the claims of developing individuality with the needs of a vibrant community. To make this ideal a living and working reality, the School cares for its pupils in 12 Houses for both boarders and day pupils.
Academics at Shrewsbury:
Our aim in the classroom is to inspire and enthuse pupils from across the top of the ability range. In recent years, on average, up to 10% of our leavers have gone on to Oxford and Cambridge and virtually all have won places at the university of their first choice; we expect about 80% of A Levels each year to be passed at A*, A or B grade. But there is as much joy for the less academic pupil who surpasses his or her expectations as there is for the pupil whose progress to top grades always seemed more certain.
Co-Curricular at Shrewsbury:
We want all our pupils, whatever their ability, to enjoy their life beyond the classroom, and Shrewsbury has a well-earned reputation for academic, musical and sporting excellence. We compete internationally in cricket and rowing, and we are one of the strongest schools in the country for football, cross-country running, cricket and fives; facilities and coaching for these and a host of other sports including badminton, basketball, tennis, fencing, hockey, netball and swimming are excellent.
Our school plays and musicals have drawn praise at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in London. As one would expect from one of the strongest music departments in the country, the breadth and quality of music-making are remarkable, and several students win places at some of the top music colleges each year.
We also offer our pupils an extraordinary array of clubs, societies and other co-curricular activities, many of which take place on a dedicated weekly activity afternoon. Members of the school staff lead the majority. Shrewsbury is surrounded by glorious unspoilt countryside and the School makes the most of its easy access to the Shropshire Hills, the Welsh Marches and Snowdonia.
Location:
Shrewsbury School lies on the outskirts of the town of Shrewsbury, approximately 50 miles west of Birmingham, and 75 miles south of Manchester. Shrewsbury is served by Virgin trains from London Euston (by changing at Birmingham New Street or Wolverhampton). There are also regular services from Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Oxford, Cardiff and Bristol. The international airports of Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and East Midlands are all between 1 hour and 1 hour 30 minutes away (by car or rail).
We are well positioned to enjoy the benefits of the local countryside and the mountains and coastline of North Wales.
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