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Vice Principal (Early Years) Job at Brainy Bairn School
Brainy Bairn School
Job Description
The Vice Principal – Early Years will provide visionary and nurturing leadership across the entire Early Years Department by championing developmentally appropriate, play-based, and inquiry-led learning experiences. The role focuses on safeguarding children's wellbeing, mentoring early childhood educators, and ensuring the faithful implementation of the Cambridge Early Years Programme to empower each child to begin their learning journey with confidence and joy.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, delivery, and continuous improvement of learning and care across the full Early Years range, ensuring developmentally appropriate practice at every stage.
- Champion play-based, inquiry-led, and child-centred pedagogy across the department, including attachment-based caregiving and a key person approach for infants and toddlers in the creche.
- Ensure faithful delivery of the Cambridge Early Years Programme in Creche, EY1, EY2, and EY3/Reception across the six areas of early learning: communication and language, physical development, personal/social/emotional development, literacy, numeracy, and understanding the world.
- Champion sensory exploration, treasure-basket and heuristic play, gross-motor movement, and emerging language for infants and toddlers; and rich indoor and outdoor learning environments with continuous provision and well-planned learning centres for older children.
- Embed observation-based assessment and learning journeys to track each child's progress from creche through EY3 and inform next steps.
- Lead smooth, well-supported transitions, home into creche, creche into Nursery, between Early Years stages, and from Reception into the Primary Department, with strong continuity of relationships and routines.
- Serve as a designated safeguarding lead for the Early Years, ensuring 100% compliance with child protection policies and statutory duties.
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