Head Teacher
Kew Green Preparatory School
Richmond upon Thames
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive, subject to experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Autumn Term 2025
- Apply by:
- 22 January 2025
Job overview
The Directors of the Gardener Schools Group are seeking to appoint a new Head Teacher of Kew Green Preparatory School to succeed Mrs Sasha Davies who will be leaving in September 2025.
Kew Green is a successful school offering an educational experience rooted in excellence and achievement in all senses of the word. A non-denominational, non-selective co-educational preparatory day school for boys and girls aged 2-11, the school was founded by the Gardener Schools Group (GSG) in 2004 and now has approximately 270 children from Nursery to Year 6 on roll. The 2023 ISI report:
“The quality of the pupils’ academic and other achievements is excellent. Pupils demonstrate excellent levels of academic achievement as a result of highly supportive teaching and nurturing pastoral care. Pupils attain strong results in externally standardised tests, and their performance in senior school entrance examinations is highly successful, in line with the aims of the school.”
GSG is a family company that was founded by experienced former state-school teachers 30 years ago. Today, the Group comprises four independent, co-educational schools in London that educate around 1,500 children aged 2-18 years. The new Head will work closely with and be supported by our other Heads and the Directors.
The role will be exciting, challenging and rewarding. KGPS lies in a beautiful and quiet setting close to the River Thames and adjacent to the world-famous Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, south-west London.
KGPS prepares children for relevant 11+ entrance exams and pupils progress to top London and UK schools with at least 25% going on to the GSG senior schools where they have automatic entry.
The school is well resourced in all areas with modern, airy classrooms, a large playground backing on to the river, access to the green for sport, a computing lab, a science room, an art studio, music room, a staffroom and a dining hall. In the last two years, the school has added a nursery with an adjacent café to its offer.
The new Head will need to be an education expert with a clear understanding of what excellent teaching and learning looks like. They will embrace a child-centric approach to every decision and will look to drive the school forward at this exciting stage in its development.
A highly competitive remuneration package is available commensurate with the seniority of the post and the experience of the successful candidate.
The search for a new Head of Kew Green Preparatory School is being led by RSAcademics and the new postholder will be selected by a Selection Panel chaired by Theo Brehony, Managing Director, Gardener Schools Group.
Interested candidates are invited to contact RSAcademics to arrange a confidential discussion with one of the consultants handing this appointment:
Jenny Funnell, Search Consultant: jennyfunnell@rsacademics.com
Liz Francis, Senior Advisor: lizfrancis@rsacademics.com
For further information and applications details, please click the apply button to be redirected to the RSAcademics vacancy page.
The deadline for receipt of applications is 10.00am on Wednesday 22nd January 2025.
All applicants will be considered on the basis of suitability regardless of gender, race, religious belief, marital status or disability. Kew Green Preparatory School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applications will be subject to checks with past employer, as well as an online check and an enhanced check with the Disclosure and Barring Service. Our safeguarding and safer recruitment policies can be found on our website.
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About Kew Green Preparatory School
- Kew Green Preparatory School
- Layton House, Ferry Lane, Kew Green
- Richmond
- TW9 3AF
- United Kingdom
Kew Green Prep is a co-educational Preparatory School and Nursery for children aged 2 – 11 years old. Based in Richmond, we are located on Kew Green and our school site backs onto the River Thames and is next door to the world-famous Royal Botanical Gardens.
We pride ourselves in finding every child’s skill through the breadth of our curriculum. We offer children the opportunity to succeed, be recognised and be valued. Due to our size, we can say confidently that every teacher in our school knows every single child and that lends itself hugely to that feeling of warmth and closeness. Happy children who have high self-esteem, who feel safe, are going to be successful, progress and thrive.
As a London prep school we prepare our children for the 11+ and are academically ambitious for them, but we also are a true prep school where parents drop off their children and know that almost all their learning and co-curricular activities take place onsite.
As part of the Gardener Schools Group, there is a natural transition to either Kew House School or Maida Vale School, however, we are proud that our children receive offers from other top independent schools in London.
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