The Flagpole

Ideally starting in January 2018, we have an exciting role within the IT Infrastructure Team for an experienced IT professional as a Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer (Windows Server, Active Directory, SCCM, Hyper-V, AV & Backup Solutions, Cloud, Office 365 and Azure). Working as part of a team you will be responsible for the design, development, testing, implementation, documentation and high-level support of a variety of network and server infrastructure products and solutions internally.

The successful candidate will also be expected to help design tailored solutions to meet the needs of internal projects including sourcing and introducing new products and services where required.

This is a Foundation wide role, based at Princethorpe College with duties at Crescent School and Crackley Hall School.

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 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 27 November 2017 at 9.00am, and interviews are likely to be held on Thursday 30 November at Princethorpe.

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

Required from November 2017, we are recruiting an Administrator\Receptionist 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 role may be offered on a full time or part time basis; candidates are asked to specify in their application on which basis they wish to be considered.

The working pattern for a full time role would be Monday to Friday 8.00am – 4.30pm (with an hour for lunch).  If offered on a part time basis as part of a job share– the working pattern would be Thursday and Friday 8.00am – 4.30pm (with an hour for lunch), 2 days per week (15 hours per week) required to work all year round.

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 13 November 2017, at 9.00am. Candidates are advised to apply immediately as applications will be reviewed as they are received and the closing date may be brought forward.

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

The English department has welcomed Patrick Higgins as a new part-time teacher.  Patrick comes to Princethorpe having been a Head of Year and English teacher at Trinity Catholic School in Leamington Spa for 26 years - Patrick remembers teaching Mrs Challinor and Mrs Cefaliello as model pupils at Trinity!

Patrick graduated from Liverpool University and also taught at Arnold Hill School in Nottingham.  He enjoys theatre, cinema, tennis and swimming and in his spare time Patrick has recently begun to put together his family tree: Patrick's great grandfather Peter Higgins was involved in the Easter Uprising in Dublin 1916 and his name is remembered at the General Post Office on O'Connell Street.     

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

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

2017-18 (Two-page document)

2018-19