Welcome

Dear Candidate,

Thank you for your interest in the Executive Headteacher role at Spring Brook Academy which is a member of New Bridge Multi Academy Trust.  We believe it is a truly remarkable place to work. 

Spring Brook Academy, joined the New Bridge Trust in 2016, and is a KS1-3 school in Oldham that caters for pupils with a range of Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) difficulties split across two sites. Spring Brook Lower School, the primary department, is co-located with Lyndhurst Primary School in Hollins. Spring Brook Upper School, the secondary department, is based at our Dean Street site in Failsworth. Each site has a Head of School and across the two sites we have 95 pupils and students, which we expect to increase to over 100 in September. The school delivers a highly personalised curriculum and offers qualifications up to GCSE level.

Spring Brook Academy was last inspected in June 2019 when it received a rating of Requires Improvement. While a lot of great work has taken place since then and there have been many improvements, we are under no illusions that there is still much to be done. The school is currently in the inspection window and the new Executive Headteacher will have the support of the Trust to lead the further improvements required

Our vision statement ‘Creating Meaningful Futures’ captures our commitment to ensuring our educational offer consistently supports the meaningful destinations we achieve for each child.  Our vision statement equally relates to our staff team in the knowledge that investing in their professional learning and enabling their continued development supports successful outcomes for our pupils.

Our mission statement ‘Learning together, learning for all, learning for life’ illustrates our inclusive approach that values contributions from every individual and sees learning (in both pupils and staff) as a driving force for improving the outcomes for our young people.

We believe that our Multi Academy Trust is a great and truly remarkable place to work. You will join and be leading a passionate and innovative team with a strong ‘can do’ attitude and commitment to continually strive to improve the outcomes for our youngsters. We operate within a supportive and innovative environment where we value the contribution of each individual

The role brings with it the opportunity to work in partnership with the other Heads of Site across our Trust and an amazing Executive Leadership Team who share a single-minded ambition to constantly progress and modernise everything we do.  From an individual perspective you will receive direct mentoring, support and advice from a National Leader of Education who works as an Executive Director within the Trust.

All our schools remain a very popular choice for our families. Our nationally recognised curriculum model, our unique 48-week provision and our fantastic extra-curricular opportunities have meant all of our schools are now well over commissioned numbers.  There will be a need, as we move forward, to develop new ways of working with our mainstream colleagues.  We’d love to hear your ideas. 

We would be delighted for you to visit the schools and that can be arranged through our recruitment advisor, Martin Blair at Hays Leadership (T: 07736791138, E: martin.blair@hays.com) who is also available for an informal conversation about the role or to discuss making an application.

I hope you will feel empowered to put an application together.  I’d personally like to thank you for the time, energy and thought you will put into it. We really want to recruit a brilliant school leader - our children deserve nothing less.

If you have any questions, either I or a member of our team would welcome the opportunity to have a discussion with you. 

I look forward to meeting you,

Graham Quinn