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Head - Colfe's School

Applications@rsacademics.com. Jonathan

Head - Colfe's School

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Applications@rsacademics.com. Jonathan, Lee, Lewisham

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 2 weeks ago, 2 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 3d95539f061b41f7868674eb0056a1b0

Full Job Description

  • a covering letter addressed to Mr Matthew Pellereau, Chair of Governors. The letter should explain your reasons for applying.

    Colfe's School is an equal opportunities employer, and therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex or sexual orientation.

    Colfe's School is a highly successful independent co-educational day school located in Greenwich, to the south-east of London. It is a historic institution which has been governed by The Leathersellers' Company for over 370 years. It educates pupils aged 3 to 18 across both Junior and Senior Schools. The School currently has around 1300 pupils, including 430 in the Junior School. It operates within a competitive local market containing leading state and independent schools. The School offers first-class teaching on a well-resourced campus (housing both the Junior and Senior Schools), which leads to excellence in public examination outcomes, pastoral care and the co-curricular programme. Following the impressive judgements reported by the Independent Schools' Inspectorate in September 2023, the new Head will inherit a School that is conspicuously successful, highly subscribed and very well regarded. Nevertheless, the Governors remain ambitious for it to continue its all-round

    • development and to be flexible and agile in shaping its provision for the needs of 21^st Century families.

    This is a tremendous opportunity for a current or aspiring Head to lead a very special school with a demonstrably unique and strong personality. The Governors are looking for a leader who combines personal warmth with a strategic mindset, to help the School to evolve culturally, educationally and technologically over the coming decade, whilst retaining its strong ethos. The person must lead with a high degree of emotional intelligence to establish an authentic connection with pupils, parents, staff and Governors.

    The new Head will shape and drive the School's future, with their primary challenge being to maintain its recent upward trajectory through the likely external economic, societal and political challenges of the coming years. They will be an articulate advocate for Colfe's, defining it clearly amongst its competitors, in the local community and in the wider educational sphere. It will be critical in doing this to retain and embrace the caring and inclusive culture of its community.

    Interested candidates are warmly invited to have an initial, confidential conversation with key members of the team at RSAcademics who are handling this appointment,
  • Colfe's School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to enhanced DBS and other checks in line with safer recruitment best practice. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

  • The safeguarding responsibilities of this post are detailed in the candidate information brochure.

  • RSAcademics is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and to promoting diversity and inclusion in schools.