Vice Principal
Battle Primary Academy
Reading
- £56,316 - £65,286 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- L6 - L12
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 22 April 2025
Job overview
Battle Primary Academy, Reading is looking to appoint a talented, friendly and dynamic leader to join our team as Vice Principal in September 2025. This role will be crucial in supporting our exceptional school to continue to develop its vision of ‘empowering opportunity’ for all and would ideally suit someone who has experience of leading a team and is ready for a new challenge.
Our Vice Principal will:
- Have leadership qualities to challenge, inspire, motivate and empower others
- A leader who will take a strategic role in curriculum development, teaching and learning
- Be an excellent and flexible communicator, developing strong relationships with children, staff, parents, local advisors and a range of stakeholders within and beyond the school
- Demonstrate a commitment to the highest standards of teaching, learning and assessment and show great enthusiasm for ensuring all our children achieve their true potential
- Behave as a role model, leading by example, creating a motivated team who share best practice and take a full part in the school’s progression
- Support staff to deliver a rich, engaging and varied curriculum that meets children’s needs in an ever-changing world.
- An educator who will inspire and develop the potential of the staff and pupils
- A leader who will communicate the vision of Battle Primary Academy within the school and wider community
We can offer:
- A welcoming, supportive and friendly learning environment with motivated, happy children who are positive learners, take pride in their school, and feel valued, listened to and safe
- A dedicated and talented staff who have high expectations of our pupils and provide our children with stimulating, challenging and memorable learning experiences
- A school judged as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted in all five judgement areas
- A highly supportive Academy Trust (Thames Learning Trust)
- An ethos of valuing and caring for all members of our school community
- A commitment to continuous improvement and your own professional development.
We are passionate about creating a culture of wellbeing where all staff and students are valued and supported. We welcome applicants from all groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
What’s more, we offer a great range of benefits including a forward-thinking Employee Assistance Programme, Medicash Plan, Wider Wallet Benefit Hub, Cycle to Work scheme and Eyecare vouchers.
We are passionate about creating a culture of wellbeing where all staff and students are valued and supported.
School visits: We welcome and encourage visits to the school. Please contact Battle Primary Academy directly on 0118 9375421 or at admin@battleprimary.co.uk to make an appointment.
If you have any questions in relation to the role please contact Allison Worley, Human Resources Manager on aworley@thameslearningtrust.co.uk
To apply for this post now press the quick apply button.
Closing Date: noon 22 April 2025
Interview Date: Tuesday 29 April 2025
Applications will be considered when received.
Thames Learning Trust is committed to adhering to the DFE guidance "Keeping Children Safer Education". It is the individual's responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people in the School. Satisfactory references, enhanced DBS clearance & social media check is required for this post. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. You are required to comply with the school’s Health and Safety policy at all times.
Attached documents
About Battle Primary Academy
Principal
Louise Burridge Smith
Message From The Principal Battle Primary School
I am delighted to share with existing and prospective families the final report from our recent Good Ofsted (May 2019). This represents a significant achievement and is credit to the hard work and commitment of staff who have worked in partnership with families and the community.
We are blessed with truly fantastic children and I feel privileged to be the leader of such a vibrant and diverse school which has progressed rapidly in recent years.
As a local resident, I care deeply about this community and I am determined to lead the school to new heights and foster a culture in which all children are nurtured and challenged as learners and individuals.
Whilst over subscribed for Reception 2019, we do have spaces in some year groups and welcome prospective families. We are happy to arrange a tour and share with you the range of opportunities we can offer.
I look forward to sharing our wonderful school with you.
About Battle Primary School
Battle is a mixed, non-selective, non-denominational primary school with nursery classes situated in Reading. It is part The Baylis Court Trust, an organisation which supports four academies. As our family of schools grows we are keen to ensure that high academic standards are at the core of our work. We want our schools to develop further whilst maintaining their own uniqueness. It is this uniqueness that helps to make the Trust a special place to study and to work. Children are the centre of all our work and we strive to give them the best start in life as this is what they deserve. In order to achieve this, we work in close partnership with our parents and expect them to support us in challenging their children to be the best they can be in every aspect of their lives.
Our Vision and Values
Mission: Empower all children to develop the confidence and perseverance to succeed.
Vision: To embed a structured and progressive approach to learning that puts the development of positive learning attitudes at the heart of a balanced, broad and challenging curriculum.
Rationale: Our curriculum will:
- Connect every topic to a book in order to expand children’s immersion in language and development of vocabulary
- Follow a two year rolling cycle to allow staff to specialise and support the planning and delivery of high quality learning opportunities
- Incorporate curriculum entrance and exit points that provide exciting and inspirational hooks for learning
- Ensure all children are provided with a breadth of education that aligns with our Curriculum Charter and enriches children’s experiences of life
- Reflect and record the progress children make as part of a co-constructed learning journey through each cross curricular unit
- Celebrate and promote the rich cultural and diverse heritage links reflected in the school community
- Encourage children’s personal, moral and spiritual development alongside their physical and mental well being
- Support children to be responsible and thoughtful learners who can work productively as part of a team or independently as required
- Promote opportunities for whole school topical units and cross phase learning that celebrate success and enhance the learning culture and identity of the school
- Creatively make purposeful connections between areas of learning and ensure opportunities to incorporate core subjects are progressive and routinely harnessed
Ofsted
“Safeguarding is effective. The school ensures that appropriate systems are in place. Pupils feel safe. Pupils’ attitudes to their learning are consistently positive. They conduct themselves well throughout the school day. Year 6 pupils who left in 2016 made good and sometimes accelerated progress in reading, writing and mathematics in key stage 2.”
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