Headteacher

Overview

Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Primary School, Doncaster.
Contract
:
Full time, permanent.

Start Date:

September 2026. Closing Date:
Wednesday 25 February 2026 erviews:
Week commencing Monday 2 March 2026.

We are considering candidates for the opportunity to lead Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Primary School, a highly regarded member of St Francis Catholic MAT. This is an exciting time to join St Francis as a new Catholic Trust of 14 schools, growing to 24 schools in line with the Bishop of Hallam’s vision for education.

We are a community of schools that share and develop practice to create an outstanding provision of education for our young people. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with a committed Heads Forum and may have the opportunity to enter Trust Leadership in the future. The Trust is committed to talent spotting, nurturing and progression; this role would suit a candidate new to headship as well as existing headteachers.

Our Lady of Sorrows is a high performing school with exceptional children and a highly skilled and loyal staff. We are significantly oversubscribed, catering for children from wide-ranging backgrounds and contexts. Our families are a joy to serve, and our children benefit greatly from a close, respectful and trusting relationship with parents and carers. We place equal emphasis on the academic excellence of our children alongside developing their character and understanding of the world around them, all founded on Gospel teachings.

As such, our outcomes are strong and our children move onto secondary school as high performing, mature and caring young people.

The successful candidate will be passionate about teaching, learning and curriculum design to continue to develop our school and prepare our children for outstanding futures. Our new Headteacher will also have a true commitment to developing staff so that Our Lady of Sorrows trailblazes professional growth.

We welcome interested applicants to visit the school to meet staff and students and to understand the school’s aspirations. To arrange a visit, please contact the Trust at

To apply for the role, please complete the application form along with a letter of application (no more than 1500 words) and return to  by 9am on Wednesday 25 February 2026.