Headteacher – Garden Fields School
Full time Salary: L20-L26 (£71,963 to £83,155) Starting September 2023 Closing date – Monday 27th February 2023, 9am Tours of the School – w/c 6th February 2023 and w/c 20th February 2023 Interview date – Wednesday 8th & Thursday 9th March 2023 This is a wonderful opportunity to join one of the largest and most established primary schools in St Albans, Hertfordshire. Garden Fields School is situated close to the city centre and offers high-quality education to over 500 children from reception to year 6. The school is a proud member of the Alban Academies Trust (AAT), who serve seven primary and secondary schools in and around St Albans. All member schools are valued and make a powerful contribution to the Trust’s ongoing improvement, supporting the Trust’s vision to build a learning community that shares and promotes educational excellence for everyone. At Garden Fields, a deep commitment to developing a happy, nurturing and stimulating learning environment to achieve the Garden Fields vison of ‘growing the hearts and minds’ of all our pupils as they complete the first 7 years of their educational journey is critical. Our new Headteacher will have the ability to continue to develop and communicate the vision and values of both Garden Fields School and the AAT. They will be inspiring, creative and ambitious and lead our dedicated and committed staff to build children’s confidence, ignite their love of learning and create wonderful memories. We can offer you an opportunity to: If you would like to discuss the role further before making an application or arrange a tour of the school, please contact Siobhan Shury, HR Lead via appointments@albanacademiestrust.org.uk and we will be happy to make arrangements. Applications can be made can be made via MyNewTerm Garden Fields JMI School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, as well as other pre-appointment checks including an online check, as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education (September 2022). We are committed to the aim of ensuring that everyone who applies to work for us receives fair treatment and we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership and caring status. We expect all our staff to demonstrate a commitment to advancing equality of opportunity and fostering good relations.