Head of Design and Technology
St Helen and St Katharine
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
- New
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 4 November 2024
Job overview
We are excited to announce an opening to appoint an individual to be our Head of Design and Technology, commencing in September 2025.
Our Design and Technology is thriving at GCSE level, and we are now looking to expand and establish this subject at an A level curriculum. The Design and Technology department has their own purpose-built area including fully equipped workshops with Ceramics and various other design disciplines.
We pride ourselves on creativity and innovation in our students and the postholder will be passionate and an advocacy for Design and Technology with the ability to encourage and promote aspirations to young women looking to study design beyond School. You will show a commitment to leading and further developing a full and inclusive extracurricular programme.
St Helen and St Katharine is ranked top girls’ school in Oxfordshire and top five in the Southeast for the past three years in The Times Parent Power.
To apply for this position, please read the job description and person specification and complete an application form. Completed application forms with a brief supporting letter addressed to Mrs Rebecca Dougall, Headmistress, should be submitted to recruitment@shsk.org.uk in the first instance and then sent to:
Human Resources Department
St Helen and St Katharine
Faringdon Road
Abingdon
Oxfordshire
OX14 1BE
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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About St Helen and St Katharine
Founded on Christian values, we enable every girl to discover and develop her own strengths. St Helen & St Katharine is a school where success is celebrated but not revered and our goal is to ensure that every girl achieves success as she defines it, so that she can believe in herself, her talents and her abilities.
We are one of the leading girls’ schools in the country and are justifiably proud of a tradition of high aspiration and academic achievement (our students achieved record breaking GCSE results with 77% A* this year). But we take just as much pleasure in the warmth of the atmosphere here and in our dynamic range of extra-curricular activities. From Minecraft to Mandarin, Silversmithing to Sailing, Board Games to Big Band and much more besides, our girls are given the space and opportunity to make their own choices and find their niche.
A welcoming 22 acre campus in Abingdon provides exceptional facilities that include a brand new state-of-the-art Sports Centre; Performing Arts Centre; extended Sixth Form Centre; Science Centre with 12 new laboratories, break out spaces and a 200sqm science themed glass atrium and a 3D Design Centre.
This is a friendly and happy place in which lasting relationships are built on kindness and respect. Our ambitions for our students are based upon them developing confidence and resilience and an open-minded and creative approach to learning and to life.
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