Deputy Head (Academic)
Channing School
Haringey
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- Salary:
- Channing Senior Leadership Scale - very competitive salary
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 18 November 2024
Job overview
The retirement of the current post holder, after 22 years at Channing, provides an exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking and creative academic leader to shape the next ten years of our academic journey. We have made huge strides in curriculum organisation, assessment and reporting in the last few years, and are particularly proud of our focus on evidence-based pedagogy which aims to create Fearless Learners (and Fearless Teachers) in our classrooms.
Our new strategic plan for Channing 2035, to be published in January 2024, is underpinned by the school’s Unitarian ethos, our vision of Girls Enjoying Success, the motto Conabor (I will try) and the words of William Ellery Channing, “Each of us is intended to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be and do what no other can exactly do”. This emphasis on bespoke outcomes is at the heart of our five new strategic objectives, which includes two key objectives related to curriculum design and academic outcomes.
The new incumbent will have a wide degree of latitude in determining how these objectives can best be achieved, in conjunction with the Headmistress and Senior Leadership Team. This will be discussed further at interview.
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About Channing School
The School
Awarded ‘Excellent’ in all areas inspected by ISI in 2022, Channing School is summed up by its vision, ‘Girls Enjoying Success’.
Girls at Channing enjoy academic success from a tailored educational programme that encourages confidence, independent thinking and provides girls with life skills to take on the next stage of their education as thoughtful, responsive, socially aware adults, prepared for the challenges of the world today.
Founded in 1885 by Unitarian sisters Emily and Matilda Sharpe, supported by Reverend Robert Spears, Channing School, named after notable American Unitarian William Ellery Channing, has been known as a successful, happy community. Remaining true to our Unitarian foundation, the School is an inclusive community that values the individual skills, spiritual beliefs, achievements and contribution of all members of the school community.
Academic achievement
Academic results are excellent – GCSE and A Level results consistently place us amongst the top-performing schools in the UK and London. Virtually all our sixth formers go on to HIgher Education, some after a gap year. Girls also excel in a very wide range of co-curricular and extra curricular activities, and especially in Music, Drama, Sport and Art.
Community spirit
The Head and members of staff know every girl personally and as an individual. We have a strong family tradition and an enthusiastic and supportive parents' association. The atmosphere is calm, focussed and purposeful. We set high standards emphasising concern and respect for the needs of others. A major feature of the school is the huge diversity of the extracurricular activities on offer to pupils and it is expected that all staff will contribute to this side of the life of the school. Opportunities exist for involvement in cultural, dramatic, sporting and intellectual pursuits and we like staff to assist in areas where they have a genuine interest and enthusiasm.
Exceptional setting
The school is in an attractive part of Highgate, with convenient transport links by road and underground. Visitors are often surprised at how light, green and open our site is. We have preserved the character of the older buildings, but completely refurbished and redesigned them to provide bright and spacious teaching rooms. Our ambitious £13m building programme, completed in 2017, has provided us with excellent dining facilities, a Music School, a new Sixth Form Centre, Sports Hall with fitness suite and a state-of-the-art Performing Arts Centre.
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