Colfe’s School, Head

Colfe’s School is a highly successful independent co-educational day school located
in Greenwich, to the south-east of London. It is a historic institution which has
been governed by The Leathersellers’ Company for over 370 years. It educates
pupils aged 3 to 18 across both Junior and Senior Schools.

The School currently has around 1300 pupils, including 430 in the Junior School. It operates within a
competitive local market containing leading state and independent schools. The
School offers first-class teaching on a well-resourced campus (housing both the
Junior and Senior Schools), which leads to excellence in public examination
outcomes, pastoral care and the co-curricular programme. Following the
impressive judgements reported by the Independent Schools’ Inspectorate in
September 2023, the new Head will inherit a School that is conspicuously
successful, highly subscribed and very well regarded. Nevertheless, the Governors
remain ambitious for it to continue its all-round development and to be flexible
and agile in shaping its provision for the needs of 21st Century families.

This is a tremendous opportunity for a current or aspiring Head to lead a very
special school with a demonstrably unique and strong personality. The Governors
are looking for a leader who combines personal warmth with a strategic mindset,
to help the School to evolve culturally, educationally and technologically over the
coming decade, whilst retaining its strong ethos. The person must lead with a high
degree of emotional intelligence to establish an authentic connection with pupils,
parents, staff and Governors.

The new Head will shape and drive the School’s future, with their primary
challenge being to maintain its recent upward trajectory through the likely external
economic, societal and political challenges of the coming years.

They will be an articulate advocate for Colfe’s, defining it clearly amongst its competitors, in the
local community and in the wider educational sphere. It will be critical in doing this
to retain and embrace the caring and inclusive culture of its community.