School: Fonthill Primary Academy
Location: Bristol
Salary: Leadership Scale: L14 - L18
Contract: Full-time
Term: Permanent
Applications close: Friday 15 May, 9:00am
Interview: Thursday 21 and Friday 22 May 2026
Start Date: 1 September 2026
Amplify Education are looking to appoint a Headteacher for Fonthill Primary Academy from 1 September 2026. This is an exceptional opportunity for an ambitious leader with vision and drive to be Fonthill Primary Academy’s next Headteacher.
About Amplify Education
We are committed to transforming education in Bristol through four guiding principles:
- A Bold Voice for Bristol: Speaking with ambition and channelling the city’s spirit into a shared journey of belief, opportunity, and citizenship.
- Building Belief: Ensuring every young person’s voice is heard, every story matters, and every learner moves forward with confidence.
- Expanding Opportunities: Nurturing potential and enriching each learner’s journey with a passport of inclusive, academic, creative, and musical experiences.
- Strengthening Citizenship: Connecting communities and educating to build unity and pride - this is Bristol, represented.
As a Trust we are proudly committed to music education and to partnerships to develop opportunities for all our pupils, particularly pupils experiencing disadvantage and pupils with special educational needs. We seek to recruit the very best staff, ensuring that you are fully supported to develop your careers with us.
An experienced Trust central education team, with expertise across curriculum and pedagogy, CPLD, SEND, attendance and safeguarding are available to support you. We understand that talking over decisions and drawing down on advice and guidance enables Headteachers to perform at their best.
About Fonthill Primary School
Fonthill is a school proudly rooted in Southmead community in north Bristol. Since achieving a Good Ofsted judgement in 2022, the leadership team has continued to build a school known for its warmth, ambition and supportive ethos.
The school offers a vibrant and dynamic environment with extensive facilities and outdoor learning spaces. For a one‑form‑entry school with 220 children, we are fortunate to have large play areas, two courtyards with raised beds and fruit trees, dedicated outdoor learning spaces for EYFS and Key Stage One, and a Forest School area. Classrooms are spacious and well‑resourced, supported by intervention rooms, a well-equipped library, an ELSA room and additional inclusion spaces to support our pastoral provision.
The Fonthill vision is:
- We are bold in our intentions and take action. We are strong.
- We are life-long learners and take pride in our achievements.
- We courageously advocate and care unconditionally.
- We celebrate the unique individual and our position in the wider world.
- We lay the foundations of success for all.
We are proud of the way this vision shapes our curriculum, our relationships and our ambitions for every child.
We are a committed CUSP school, delivering a knowledge-rich curriculum that ensures every subject is valued, celebrated and taught with depth and rigour. This is strengthened by our Learning Gems, which nurture key learning behaviours such as resilience, collaboration, independence and perseverance. These habits of mind help children thrive academically, socially and emotionally.
Leaders prioritise:
- Achievement for all
- Early reading and phonics
- Oracy and high‑quality talk
- Equitable access and experiences
- Preparing children for their futures
- Leaders take a research‑led approach to sustainable, long‑term improvement, and are passionate about staff development.
You are:
- an experienced, confident and credible senior leader, who can demonstrate impact across curriculum improvements and raise academic outcomes
- completely committed to inclusive education and the belief that all can succeed with the right support
- a strategic thinker, able to lead and manage staff, quality assure, self-evaluate, hold a budget, manage high levels of safeguarding and engage with stakeholders
- ambitious – holding yourself and others to the highest standards
- reflective – thinking deeply, guided by professional curiosity and humility, and acting wisely
- collaborative – working openly, sharing goals and generous in your support
- and of course, prepared to roll your sleeves up and get involved in all aspects of running a one form entry school.
We can offer you:
- Continuing Professional and Leadership development
- Employee assistance programme, offering counselling, support and advice on a wide array of areas
- Discounted gym membership
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Eyesight test vouchers
- Many of our schools are easily accessible using public transport. For staff members who drive, a number of our schools offer free onsite or nearby street parking.
- Flexible working fully supported and enhanced family friendly policies
- All new staff are automatically enrolled in the Teacher’s Pension or LGPS Avon Pension Fund.
How to apply:
Visits to the school ahead of application are encouraged. To arrange a visit, please contact Penny Gowie (Assistant Business Manager) via the school contact details
Please complete your application via the Trust website by 9:00am on Friday 15 May 2026.
When completing your personal statement, you should demonstrate how you meet the criteria set out in the Person Specification. The essential criteria, which will determine if you are shortlisted, are highlighted in bold. Please include specific examples that support your application.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an interview on Thursday 21 May and the morning of Friday 22 May 2026. A schedule of activities will be provided upon invitation.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts at Amplify Education are subject to pre-employment checks incl, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.
The School may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants, and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media account names/handles, as part of the interview process.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.