Head of Design Technology - Barnet
Start: 1st September 2025
Reports to: Assistant Principal
Salary: MPS £37,313 - £49,745 / UPS £52,221 - £56,157 plus TLR
What’s special about this role?
Our pupils love Design Technology and enjoy learning graphics, resistant materials and textiles across the year, and especially being challenged to think about how we can find solutions to key problems through clever design. Our GCSE pupils have made a fantastic start to Key Stage 4 and we opened our 6th Form in September 2024 which offers A Level.We need a leader with subject expertise to shape this. If you are passionate that pupils in every school should access a rich DT curriculum up to Key Stage 5, meaningful enrichment and opportunities to think beyond the curriculum - then this role is for you.
Who are we looking for?
Across school life, we embed high aspirations and a growth mindset in all of our children. We believe that every single child who joins us has the potential to be knowledgeable, articulate and successful. It’s important this resonates with all candidates.Equally important is subject expertise, which is critical to support strong curriculum planning and implementation.
Why will you love our school?
There are lots of reasons!We’re lucky to be based in a brand
- new building with top class facilities.
- we are non-denominational, mixed gender and two fifths of our pupils receive pupil premium funding.
- Aim High, Have Integrity, Be Kind and Model Determination and our team truly unite behind our vision.
Curriculum is incredibly important to us and we’ve planned backwards from university readiness to give our pupils the very best in every subject discipline.
We timetable collaborative planning and love to engage in ‘productive struggle’.Every team member is supported with coaching and tailored professional development, whatever stage they are at in their career.
Our extended school day (we finish at 4pm four days a week and earlier on Wednesday) allows us to offer a broad, rich curriculum and timetabled enrichment for every child
- but we never have meetings after school.
Our team say: ‘All staff are incredibly supportive and positive, and it is a great environment to work in’.