Principal
Longsands Academy
Cambridgeshire
- £104,040 - £114,759 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- L31- L37 (£104,040 to £114,759)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025 or sooner, depending on the successful applicant.
- Apply by:
- 28 April 2025
Job overview
Principal, Longsands Academy
Salary: L31- L37 (£104,040 to £114,759)
Start Date: September 2025 or sooner, depending on the successful applicant.
Location: St Neots, Cambridgeshire
Astrea Academy Trust is looking for an experienced senior leader to become the new Principal at Longsands Academy. This is a school that is brimming with potential, and leading Longsands Academy into the future will be a career-defining move. We are looking for an inspirational new Principal to realise our vision to provide the very best possible educational opportunities for young people at the academy. The school was inspected in February 2024 and was judged to be Good for overall effectiveness- this is a genuinely exciting opportunity to lead a good school on its next steps towards excellence.
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to never settling for second best, and our aim is that every child in our 26 academies across South Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire gets a brilliant education, removing any barriers to achieving this. The academy and Trust are committed to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour and culture, where schools teach powerful knowledge. We believe that the creation of a scholarly culture that is warm and strict, disciplined and joyful, where there is ‘purpose not power’, ensuring impeccable behaviour, where teachers can focus on teaching and pupils can focus on learning, underpins everything.
The role of Principal at Longsands Academy is a great match for someone who shares the Trust’s vision for educational excellence and has the focus to drive improvement at a pace, building on the school’s strong academic foundations. In return, Astrea will support the Principal with the expertise of a Regional Director, as well as a highly effective team of national subject leads and Central Support for Finance, HR, Estates and other functions.
To be successful as the next Principal, you need to be a visible leader who leads with honesty and integrity- either as an existing, successful Headteacher or an outstanding, tenacious Deputy Headteacher. What is most important is that you are an exceptional and optimistic leader, with a relentless drive to achieve excellence for all. You will have a flair for motivating others, embedding strong cultures of success, and engendering respect from staff and students alike.
If you are aligned to our mission and values, have a strong track record of improving young people’s education and a drive to do more, we very much look forward to hearing from you. More information can be found here: https://astrea.our-careers.co.uk/. To discuss this role in more detail, please contact our recruitment partners at Propelo by emailing astrea@propelo.co.uk or calling 01273 222877 to arrange an informal and confidential conversation.
Closing date for applications: Monday 28th April 2025, 10am
Interviews: Thursday 8th May & Friday 9th May 2025
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Posts are subject to enhanced DBS checks. All applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)
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About Longsands Academy
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Longsands Academy is a successful, fully inclusive secondary school and sixth form serving the community of St Neots and its surrounding area. We pride ourselves on providing an engaging, purposeful and supportive environment in which all of our students feel empowered to reach and embrace their full potential with confidence and become responsible, well rounded citizens.
The academy is at the heart of the community and has pledged to provide a rich, broad and varied education to all the pupils it serves. The academy and Trust are committed to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour and culture, influenced by Lemov’s Teach Like A Champion and Tom Bennett.
At Longsands Academy, our curriculum is designed to fulfil our core purpose which aims to secure the best possible experience, learning and outcomes for each young person for whom we have responsibility. As such, we believe that students are entitled to be immersed in ‘the best that has been thought and said’ which is best achieved through a broad and balanced, knowledge-rich curriculum, a Life at Longsands behaviour curriculum and our It Stops Now a strong personal development programme. In addition, our provision is tailored so that all students, whatever their background and ability, can follow suitable pathways, from Years 7 through to Year 13, which maximise their chances to progress their learning and achieve academic excellence and success in public examinations, as well as promoting emotional wellbeing and mental health, enabling them to successfully access the next chapter of their lives.
The creation of a scholarly culture that is warm and strict, disciplined and joyful is at the heart of everything we do. At Longsands we ensure impeccable behaviour, where teachers can focus on teaching and pupils can focus on learning in a disruption-free context.
Why work at Longsands?
- High quality curriculum which is planned with shared resources, so no planning from scratch.
- There are 8 INSET days a year to provide time to develop professionally.
- We focus on feedback that is impactful - we do not mark books.
- Students are polite, well-behaved, and committed to learning.
- All detentions are centralised and organised by pastoral and senior teams leaving you to teach.
- SLT are visible and approachable.
- We believe in strong routines to support simple effective teaching from the front.
Sounds good? Check out the vacancies we have and join a school that is going from strength to strength.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion at Astrea Academy Trust
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
Astrea Academy Trust embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all requests for flexible working as we know that diversity fosters creativity and innovation.
We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities that we serve. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive and building our culture of belonging. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in Astrea’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, LGBTQI+ people.
All successful appointments will be subject to suitability checks in accordance with KCSIE, including identity, Right to Work, prohibition, qualifications, online searches, two references and enhanced DBS check including the Children’s Barred List.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, which provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
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