Cover Letter For Headteacher Position

4th October 2014

Dear Mrs. Grimes,

Please accept my application for the advertised position of Deputy Headteacher at Stowupland High School.

Background and educational philosophy

I am currently employed as Core Assistant Headteacher at Worthing High School in West Sussex and teach Mathematics, Computing and ICT. I joined the team in 2010 as part of the extended leadership team as an Assistant Headteacher with responsibility for achievement of a community within the school. During this time my community was recognised as the highest achieving within the school. After demonstrating adaptability and commitment to whole school responsibilities I was seconded to the senior leadership team where I had responsibility for target setting, analysing assessment data for key groups of students and coordinating whole school CPD. In addition to whole school responsibilities in secondment I was also asked to lead the Maths department during a period of instability improving A*- C by 5% resulting in the highest Mathematics results the school has achieved to date of 74%. My career progressed to Core Assistant Headteacher in 2013 responsible for Child Protection, Pastoral care, Transition and subject line management. Prior to this I was employed at Chatsmore Catholic High School for six years where I held the post of Subject

The commitment and hard work of my Mathematics department was recognised by the County Advisory Service who allocated further funds to share our good practice as an aspiring lead department for Assessing Pupil Progress. In my final year at Chatsmore I also had experience as part of the Extended Leadership Team with responsibility for whole school timetabling. This led me onto successfully applying to become Assistant Headteacher at Worthing High