St Andrew's School - Head of Pre Prep

Berkshire
St Andrew's School
Full-time

Summary

We are looking for an outstanding Head of Pre-Prep from September 2025 or January 2026, depending on our preferred candidate’s availability. This position is crucial to the School’s ongoing success, most importantly in shaping our youngest pupils.

Detail

Head of Pre-Prep

(Nursery – Year 2)

Full-time, permanent

Start date: 1st September 2025 or 1st January 2026

St Andrew’s is a leading co-educational day and flexi-boarding IAPS Prep School, educating 330 pupils aged 2½ to 13 (Nursery – Year 8). Set within 54 acres of beautiful West Berkshire countryside, yet just 20 minutes from Reading and Newbury and under 1 hour from London, the School provides a dynamic learning environment where academic excellence, exceptional pastoral care and a rich, well-rounded curriculum come together. With a strong emphasis on both classroom learning and co-curricular opportunities, St Andrew’s offers an outstanding foundation for its boys and girls. The School’s most recent ISI inspection in May 2024 gave a highly positive endorsement, which can be viewed on both the School and ISI websites.

We are looking for an outstanding candidate to be our Head of Pre-Prep from September 2025 or January 2026, depending on our preferred candidate’s availability. This position is crucial to the School’s ongoing success, most importantly in shaping the education of our youngest pupils. The Pre-Prep site and whole-school facilities are enviable and it is a superb opportunity for a passionate and talented individual to make a telling impact. Key responsibilities include ensuring the Pre-Prep is a thriving, successful and happy part of the School, marketing the Pre-Prep to families, and developing our Nursery provision over the course of the next few years.

St Andrew’s is a superb place to work, with a collegiate and engaged staff, who take what they do seriously, but themselves less so. The successful candidate can expect considerable employee benefits, including an excellent salary, a generous pension and fee remissions for eligible children (for both St Andrew’s and Bradfield College), subject to the usual admissions’ criteria being met.