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Assistant Headteacher

Assistant Headteacher

Cherry Fields Primary School

Oxfordshire

  • New
Salary:
£49,781 - £54,939 (FTE)
Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Start date:
1st September 2025
Apply by:
20 January 2025

Job overview

We are seeking a dynamic and visionary Assistant Headteacher and Curriculum and Pedagogy Lead to join our passionate and experienced leadership team at Cherry Fields Primary School.

Your opportunity

As Assistant Headteacher, you will help to shape the future vision of the school, promote excellence, equality and the highest expectations for our children and staff. You will have a proven track record of success in regard to teaching and learning in primary education and a genuine desire to play a pivotal role in the strategic development of the School’s education strategy and aims.

At GLF schools we are passionate about creating an inclusive culture; the SLT team are highly experienced, so you can be confident in the knowledge you will be fully supported by Senior Leaders who understand the demands of your role.

The role is varied and exciting and includes offering in-school support, coaching, facilitating professional development programmes and developing curriculum to support the school.

You will be a creative thinker, highly organised and above all, passionate about improving the quality of children’s education.

About the Banbury Cluster

Consisting of four schools, the Banbury cluster have a collaborative approach towards working, which means the schools work closely together to provide an outstanding educational experience to the local communities. The schools’ benefit from being able to share resources, knowledge and best practise to support each other and maintain high quality teaching. Joining us will allow for opportunities for career progression across the cluster and give you the chance to enhance your professional skills.

We are looking for an Assistant Headteacher who is:

• You will be a qualified teacher and have both management and extensive teaching across the primary phase.

• An inspirational leader, with the vision and confidence to motivate, challenge and support

• Someone who is passionate about children’s learning and welfare, putting them first in everything they do

• A professional highly effective in communicating with parents and other stakeholders

• A positive, open-minded professional actively supportive of the ethos, vision and values of the school

Join the GLF Schools Community

As a part of GLF Schools, you will join a community of staff dedicated to transforming education. With regular progression discussions, there will be a wealth of opportunities for you to grow your career, whether in one of our 43 academies or in our school support team.

• A Multi Academy Trust with over 2,000 colleagues and over 17,000 pupils

• Founded upon the values of Respect, Inclusivity, Integrity and Kindness

• 43 primary and secondary schools across 7 Local Authority areas across the south of England

• We work as a community whilst ensuring each school maintains its own unique identity

• Committed to ensuring all children and young people receive the best possible education

Our Employment Offer

GLF Schools has a generous employment offer, which allows all our colleagues to Grow, Learn and Flourish

• Access to our highly competitive teaching pension scheme

• Flexible working options

• Generous holiday allowance

• Work life and family friendly policies

• Employee wellbeing initiatives

• Access to a staff benefits portal

• Community and collaboration working model

Please read the attached Application candidate pack for further information.

The Details

Start date: 1 September 2025

Contract type: Part time 0.6, Permanent

Pay Scale: GLF Leadership 1-5

Salary: £49,781 - £54,939 (FTE)

Closing date for advert: Monday 20 January 2025

Shortlisting & Interview: Ongoing

This vacancy may close early as shortlisting and interviews will be ongoing.

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About Cherry Fields Primary School

+44 129 557 4004

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Our brand new one form entry school opened its doors to reception and nursery children for the first time in September 2020 in Banbury; We are located on the Belway housing developments of Hanwell View and Cherry Fields, off Southam Road. Each year our school will increase its age range, adding an additional year group until it is an all through primary school in 2026.

We are proud of our new school and its amazing facilities, inside and outside the classroom, that will allow us to deliver our exciting and enriching curriculum. As a GLF Academy school, we are wholly committed to ensuring the highest standard of education and provision for our children.

Our strongest motivation is a passion for learning. Our aim is to ensure that when children leave us, they are empowered with a love of learning, confidence through developing a strong vocabulary and an insatiable zest for life and all the wonderful opportunities that they will one day experience and have access to. For us here at Cherry Fields, learning is a broad umbrella. Our curriculum is posited on the theories of knowledge acquisition and reducing cognitive load. Our staff team have been developing this curriculum in our sister schools over the last 2 years, meaning that we are on the front foot of embedded curriculum design and educational theory - please read all about our exciting STEAM curriculum in the curriculum section of our website.

Cherry Fields Primary is part of the GLF Schools Multi Academy Trust, alongside Longford Park Primary (opened in September 2017), Hardwick Primary and William Morris Primary, and therefore will benefit from sharing outstanding resources and support.

Join the GLF Schools Community

As a part of GLF Schools, you will join a community of staff dedicated to transforming education. With regular progression discussions, there will be a wealth of opportunities for you to grow your career, whether in one of our 42 academies or in our central team.

  • Celebrating 10 years as a growing Multi Academy Trust with over 2,000 colleagues and over 16,000 pupils
  • Founded upon the values of Respect, Inclusivity, Integrity and Kindness
  • 42 primary and secondary schools across 7 Local Authority areas across the south of England
  • We work as a community whilst ensuring each school maintains its own unique identity
  • Committed to ensuring all children and young people receive the best possible education

GLF Schools Employment Offer

GLF Schools has a generous employment offer, which allows all our colleagues to Grow, Learn and Flourish

  • Access to our highly competitive Local Government Pension Scheme
  • Flexible working options
  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Work life and family friendly policies
  • Employee wellbeing initiatives
  • Career pathways and talent management
  • Access to a staff benefits portal
  • Community and collaboration working model

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