Deputy Head Pastoral & DSL
St Christopher's School
Brighton and Hove
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- Salary:
- £competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Spring Term 2025
- Apply by:
- 4 November 2024
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint an inspiring, emotionally intelligent and approachable leader with proven experience of working in Senior or Middle Leadership. The Deputy Head Pastoral holds day-to-day responsibility for providing exceptional pastoral care to the children and staff in the School and is the Designated Safeguarding Lead.
St Christopher's Prep is a co-educational prep school in the heart of Hove, delivering a first-class academic education within a warm, friendly and supportive family environment. Our staff our positive, caring and ambitious. The School operates an independent and competitive salary scale and is a member of TPS. We are committed to professional development and are a flexible employer.
We are looking for a senior leader who has proven experience of working as part of a Senior Management Team, or as a Middle Leader to provide strategic leadership for all pastoral systems within the school and to be the Designated Safeguarding Lead, promoting the welfare of every child within the school and ensuring that a culture of safeguarding exists throughout the school.
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About St Christopher's School
- St Christopher's School
- 33 New Church Road, Hove
- East Sussex
- BN3 4AD
- United Kingdom
Welcome to St Christopher’s, a school that delivers a first-class education in a warm, family environment. St Christopher’s is a small, exceptional co-educational Prep School in the heart of Hove, East Sussex. As part of the Brighton College family of schools, we enjoy a long-held reputation for academic excellence, first rate sport and a strong tradition in the creative and performing arts.
A small school of approximately 300 pupils, St Christopher’s children are bright, happy, inquisitive and kind with unique talents and interests. Our talented team of teachers ensure that each child is nurtured and challenged on every stage of their educational journey which allows them to reach their full potential. When they move on to senior schools, our children go on to Brighton College and other top senior schools with a vast array of scholarships and awards.
Head
Elizabeth Lyle
Vision and values
St Christopher’s School encourages its pupils to aspire to great things. It ensures every student feels valued and nurtured, helping them to fulfil their potential, and encourages pupils to take part in sports and creative activities. Teachers emphasise the need for every child to be trustworthy and responsible, and to learn to work and study hard.
At St Christopher’s School, the key areas of learning are: communication and language; personal, social and emotional development; literacy; maths; understanding the world; and expressive arts and design. The preparatory school also emphasises the importance of finding strengths outside of the academic world. Extra-curricular activities span from fencing and yoga to model making and strategy games.
ISI report
“Pupils of all abilities are highly successful in their learning. The school successfully meets its aims to help pupils learn the habits and rewards of hard work and careful study, thus preparing them to gain places at the senior school of their choice.”
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