The Flagpole

Required to work all year round, within our busy reception area, the successful candidate will have good organisational skills; will be articulate, friendly, professional and well presented.

The position involves a mixture of administrative support, reception duties, and liaising with pupils and parents; the post holder will need to balance general duties with providing comprehensive administrative support to members of senior management.

Interested candidates should ideally have experience in a similar position and will have excellent communication skills, good organisational skills, excellent customer service skills and the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines.  Strong IT skills, particularly in Microsoft Office, are essential.

This is a part-time, job share post – 2 days per week (15 hours per week) required to work all year round.

The working pattern is Thursday and Friday 8.00am – 4.30pm (with an hour for lunch).

This is an excellent opportunity to join the fast growing Foundation that values its staff and offers a rewarding benefits package including discounted places for staff, 25 holiday per annum plus bank holidays (both pro-rata) to be taken during school holidays, a pension scheme, child care vouchers and a cycle to work scheme.

Application: To apply for this vacancy applicants must submit a Princethorpe College application form, together with a CV and covering letter detailing your personal qualities, experience and how you meet the person specification for the role. Applicants must ensure the application form is fully completed, including a detailed career history with specific dates.

Closing date: Monday 23 October 2017, at 9.00am and interviews are likely to be held on Tuesday 31 October at Princethorpe.

Further details and an application form are available from the College website www.princethorpe.co.uk/employment-opportunities

We seek to appoint an Admissions and Marketing Secretary, ideally starting by December 2017, to work as part of the team in our busy school office, providing the first and main point of contact for all prospective parents, working closely with the Headmaster in administering the admissions process of the Crackley Hall School and Little Crackers Nursery. The post holder will provide the Headmaster with regular and frequent reports for analysis purposes. In addition, the role will require some marketing and alumni relations activity working closely with the Foundation’s Marketing Team and a degree of general office support at busy times.

The successful candidate will have excellent inter-personal and communication skills, be capable of maintaining confidentiality and exercising tact; and have an understanding and sympathy with the ethos of the school. A high degree of fluency in both spoken and written English is essential.

Interested candidates must evidence a ‘can do’ attitude, good time management skills, and be able to work in an organised and methodical manner, to produce accurate and up-to-date records and reports as required. He or she needs to be self-motivated and able to identify work priorities and manage his or her own workload to meet deadlines.

This is a part time post, of 25 hours per week, Monday to Friday, typically 9.00am – 2.00pm, all year round and attracts 25 days’ holiday per annum plus bank holidays, to be mainly taken during school holidays, by agreement.

This is an excellent opportunity to join the fast growing Foundation that values its staff and offers a rewarding benefits package including discounted places for staff, a pension scheme, child care vouchers and a cycle to work scheme.

Application: To apply for this vacancy applicants must submit a Crackley Hall application form, together with a CV and covering letter detailing your personal qualities, experience and how you meet the person specification for the role. Applicants must ensure the application form is fully completed, including a detailed career history with specific dates.

Closing date: Tuesday 31 October, at 9.00am. Interviews are likely to be held shortly afterwards at Crackley Hall.

Further details and an application form are available from the school website www.crackleyhall.co.uk/employment-opportunities

Required to start as soon as possible, an After School Assistant to work as part of a team to provide after school care for children on three evenings per week, term time only from 3.45pm until 6.00pm each day. The exact days will be open to some negotiation with the applicant. They will support the smooth running of After Care and undertake duties in supervising homework as required.

This is an excellent opportunity to join the fast growing Foundation that values its staff and offers a rewarding benefits package including discounted places for staff, a pension scheme, child care vouchers and a cycle to work scheme.

Application: To apply for this vacancy applicants must submit a Foundation application form, together with a CV and covering letter detailing your personal qualities, experience and how you meet the person specification for the role. Applicants must ensure the application form is fully completed, including a detailed career history with specific dates.

Closing date: Wednesday 1 November 2017, at 1.00pm, although candidates are advised to apply immediately as interviews may be held prior to the closing date and the closing date brought forward.

Further details and an application form are available from the College website www.princethorpe.co.uk/employment-opportunities

The Economics and Business Studies department is delighted to welcome Robert Bateman to Princethorpe as a Teacher of Economics to cover Lil Gane’s maternity leave. Although Bob retired in 2008 from teaching at Worksop College in Nottinghamshire, he has covered similar posts at Rugby School, Wellington College and Ampleforth.

A keen supporter of his local club Sheffield United, Bob also enjoys playing squash and tennis as well as restoring classic cars and motorbikes; he has even fitted in a ride along Route 66 and the Pacific Coast Highway in his retirement. He is married to Alison and they have two sons, James and Jonathan.

We would like to remind parents about parking at school when dropping off or collecting pupils.

All pupils arriving and leaving school at the normal time must be dropped off and picked up in the playground area adjacent to the pupils’ entrance and tennis courts. This is the only designated area for parents at the beginning and end of the school day.  Please do not drop off pupils at the end of the drive or in the bus bay. Furthermore, for the safety of all pupils, parents are asked not to drive through the North Car Park and drop off or pick up from the Sixth Form Centre. 

The playground is closed to traffic from 9.00am to 3.30pm. Parents arriving within this time period are asked to park in a visitor’s parking space and go to reception or the student hub.

Mrs Beth Sharpe
Deputy Head, Pastoral

We offer bus passes in several different options to allow pupils the most flexible options for travel to and from school.  

All information with regards to routes, booking forms and associated costs can be found in the Information Booklet for Parents and Pupils or on the Princethorpe website under 'Getting to School' https://www.princethorpe.co.uk/daily-life/getting-to-school

If you wish to apply for a bus pass then please complete the travel questionnaire which can be found via the attached link and return to Mrs Barbara Bromwich via email at buses@princethorpe.co.uk or post to Mrs Bromwich at Princethorpe College.

Bus passes should be shown for every journey, failure to produce a pass on five occasions will lead to a replacement pass being automatically issued at a cost of £5, which will be added to the school fee account.

If your preference is to purchase bus tickets (which must be purchased in advance of travel) then these can be purchased from the School Shop. Please contact Nicola Browne on either 01926 634272 or via email at nicolabrowne@princethorpe.co.uk to order tickets for collection by pupils during the school day.

For ease, tickets of 10 or more can be added to the school fee account.

An additional charge for travelling without a ticket will be applied as follows:

Eddie Tolcher
Foundation Bursar

Please click on the links below to access the Term Dates:

2017-18 (Two-page document)

2018-19

Please note that the school shop will be closed during the half term break.  If you have any uniform requests please email Nicola Browne to nicolabrowne@princethorpe.co.uk.  All requests will be dealt with when the shop reopens on Monday 30 October.

Nicola Browne
Shop Manager