Head of Early Years
Westminster Under School
Westminster
- New
- Salary:
- Competitive salary plus benefits (There is also an associated responsibility allowance with this role)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 25 October 2024
Job overview
Westminster Under School is looking for a founding Head of Early Years to assist with the establishment of our new Early Years Department.
This is a unique and exciting opportunity for an exceptional candidate to positively impact the future of the School, leading on all aspects of the Early Years department, including curriculum design, curation of resources, planning and assessment.
The successful candidate will have the 2025 – 2026 academic year to establish these practices and assist with staff and pupil recruitment, ahead of our new Co-Ed Pre-Prep opening in September 2026. The successful candidate will also play a key role in designing the curriculum and resources for Year 1 and Year 2 and will also be responsible for EYFS safeguarding.
The successful candidate will possess EYFS teaching experience, as well as previous team leadership experience. They will be capable of working across EYFS and KS1 and will be able to create programmes and policies relating to EYFS. Utilising their strong communication, problem-solving and decision-making skills, they will also be able to formulate key ideas and present them clearly to the Master, SMT and Governing Body.
The Early Years Department
Our new Early Years Department will cultivate a love of learning, both through formal and child-initiated activities, and there will be plenty of time for opportunities to explore the outdoors, both on our new play balcony and on Vincent Square, our 13-acre private playing field. High quality adult interactions will prepare our children for a stimulating and world-class education in Year 1 and beyond.
About Westminster Under School
Westminster Under School is a great environment for happy and purposeful pupils, and for all the staff who support them. Our aim is to produce well-rounded individuals with a love of learning and an enthusiasm for life, and who relish coming into School each day. All members of staff play an important role in ensuring that day-to-day processes at the School run smoothly, and in turn helping each and every pupil to enjoy and benefit from all that the School has to offer.
For further information and to apply, please click the apply button.
The deadline for applications is midday on Friday 25th October 2024.
Longlist interviews will take place the week commencing 11th November 2024.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex or sexual orientation.
Westminster Under School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
The school is a Registered Charity (no 312728).
About Westminster Under School
Westminster Under School is a great environment for happy and purposeful pupils. Our aim is to produce well-rounded individuals with a love of learning and an enthusiasm for life. We expect the boys to be hard working and active participants in their lessons, but we place equal importance on the boys embracing extra-curricular activities at the School.
We want our pupils to enjoy their time at School and we believe that one of the best ways to achieve this is by providing stimulating, challenging lessons. The boys are encouraged to think for themselves, to engage fully in classroom discussions and to take pride in their work. We aim to foster a love of learning in all our pupils and a love of teaching in those who educate them.
Westminster Under School is a day school with approximately 260 pupils aged between 7 and 13. The Under School was founded in 1943 in the precincts of Westminster School in Little Dean’s Yard, just behind Westminster Abbey. The 17 boys with whom it began rapidly became 60 in number and by 1950 there were 80 boys in the Under School. The boys had to compete for space with the senior school pupils who had returned from evacuation at the end of the war, but in 1951 the Under School acquired its own premises in Eccleston Square. Numbers of pupils continued to rise during the 1960s and 1970s and in 1981 the School moved once again to its present site overlooking the Westminster playing fields in Vincent Square.
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