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Fields of Expertise: Elementary, Kindergarten,
Salary: Negotiable
Details: # GFH Alia National School
## Job Description – Head of Early Years
**Position:** Head of Early Years
**Department:** Early Years
**Reports to:** Executive Director / Senior School Leadership
**Location:** GFH Alia National School, Bahrain
**Employment Type:** Full-Time
### Role Purpose
The Head of Early Years is responsible for the leadership, development, and day-to-day management of the Early Years provision at GFH Alia National School.
The role ensures that Nursery, KG1, and KG2 provide a safe, nurturing, inclusive, and academically strong learning environment where every child is known, supported, and given the opportunity to progress.
The Head of Early Years will lead teaching and learning, staff performance, curriculum implementation, student wellbeing, parent engagement, inclusion, and continuous improvement across the Early Years department.
### Key Responsibilities
**Leadership and Management**
* Provide clear leadership and direction for Nursery, KG1, and KG2.
* Lead the Early Years teaching team, assistants, shadow teachers, and relevant support staff.
* Establish high expectations for teaching quality, professionalism, safeguarding, behaviour, and student care.
* Ensure the Early Years department operates in line with the school’s vision, policies, and strategic priorities.
* Support staff induction, mentoring, coaching, and professional development.
* Conduct regular classroom observations, learning walks, and staff performance reviews.
* Monitor staffing needs, classroom organisation, resources, schedules, and daily operations.
* Participate actively in school leadership meetings and contribute to whole-school development.
### Teaching and Learning
* Lead the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a high-quality Early Years curriculum.
* Ensure learning experiences are developmentally appropriate, engaging, purposeful, and inclusive.
* Promote strong foundations in literacy, numeracy, communication, language development, personal and social development, physical development, and creative learning.
* Ensure teachers use differentiated teaching approaches to meet individual student needs.
* Monitor lesson planning, classroom delivery, assessment, student engagement, and progress.
* Promote learning through play, exploration, practical activities, inquiry, and structured teaching.
* Support teachers in developing effective classroom environments and learning centres.
* Ensure appropriate transition and school-readiness preparation for students progressing into Grade 1.
### Assessment and Student Progress
* Oversee Early Years assessment, observation, tracking, and reporting systems.
* Monitor student progress and identify children requiring additional support or intervention.
* Review assessment data regularly with teachers and support teams.
* Ensure teachers maintain accurate student records and evidence of progress.
* Coordinate appropriate interventions for students who are not meeting developmental or academic expectations.
* Ensure parents receive clear and meaningful information regarding their child’s development and progress.
### Inclusion and Additional Needs
GFH Alia National School is an inclusive school, and the Head of Early Years plays a key role in ensuring children with additional needs are meaningfully included within the Early Years environment.
The Head of Early Years will:
* Work closely with the Lead SENCO, Special Education team, therapists, teachers, and shadow staff.
* Ensure appropriate classroom accommodations and differentiation are implemented.
* Support the implementation of Individual Education Plans and student support plans.
* Participate in student case reviews and multidisciplinary meetings where required.
* Monitor the effectiveness of support provided to students with additional needs.
* Promote an inclusive culture where all children are respected, supported, and encouraged to participate.
* Ensure classroom staff understand individual student needs, strategies, and support requirements.
* Support appropriate transitions between specialist and mainstream learning environments.
### Safeguarding, Wellbeing and Behaviour
* Ensure safeguarding and child protection procedures are consistently followed.
* Promote a safe, caring, respectful, and positive Early Years environment.
* Monitor student wellbeing, attendance, behaviour, and emotional development.
* Ensure staff maintain appropriate professional boundaries and supervision at all times.
* Work with safeguarding staff and senior leadership when concerns arise.
* Promote positive behaviour strategies appropriate to young children and individual developmental needs.
### Parent Engagement
* Develop positive and professional relationships with parents and families.
* Ensure clear and regular communication regarding student progress, routines, expectations, events, and concerns.
* Lead parent meetings, informa
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Head of Early Years
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Fields of Expertise: Elementary, Kindergarten,
Salary: Negotiable
Details: # GFH Alia National School
## Job Description – Head of Early Years
**Position:** Head of Early Years
**Department:** Early Years
**Reports to:** Executive Director / Senior School Leadership
**Location:** GFH Alia National School, Bahrain
**Employment Type:** Full-Time
### Role Purpose
The Head of Early Years is responsible for the leadership, development, and day-to-day management of the Early Years provision at GFH Alia National School.
The role ensures that Nursery, KG1, and KG2 provide a safe, nurturing, inclusive, and academically strong learning environment where every child is known, supported, and given the opportunity to progress.
The Head of Early Years will lead teaching and learning, staff performance, curriculum implementation, student wellbeing, parent engagement, inclusion, and continuous improvement across the Early Years department.
### Key Responsibilities
**Leadership and Management**
* Provide clear leadership and direction for Nursery, KG1, and KG2.
* Lead the Early Years teaching team, assistants, shadow teachers, and relevant support staff.
* Establish high expectations for teaching quality, professionalism, safeguarding, behaviour, and student care.
* Ensure the Early Years department operates in line with the school’s vision, policies, and strategic priorities.
* Support staff induction, mentoring, coaching, and professional development.
* Conduct regular classroom observations, learning walks, and staff performance reviews.
* Monitor staffing needs, classroom organisation, resources, schedules, and daily operations.
* Participate actively in school leadership meetings and contribute to whole-school development.
### Teaching and Learning
* Lead the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a high-quality Early Years curriculum.
* Ensure learning experiences are developmentally appropriate, engaging, purposeful, and inclusive.
* Promote strong foundations in literacy, numeracy, communication, language development, personal and social development, physical development, and creative learning.
* Ensure teachers use differentiated teaching approaches to meet individual student needs.
* Monitor lesson planning, classroom delivery, assessment, student engagement, and progress.
* Promote learning through play, exploration, practical activities, inquiry, and structured teaching.
* Support teachers in developing effective classroom environments and learning centres.
* Ensure appropriate transition and school-readiness preparation for students progressing into Grade 1.
### Assessment and Student Progress
* Oversee Early Years assessment, observation, tracking, and reporting systems.
* Monitor student progress and identify children requiring additional support or intervention.
* Review assessment data regularly with teachers and support teams.
* Ensure teachers maintain accurate student records and evidence of progress.
* Coordinate appropriate interventions for students who are not meeting developmental or academic expectations.
* Ensure parents receive clear and meaningful information regarding their child’s development and progress.
### Inclusion and Additional Needs
GFH Alia National School is an inclusive school, and the Head of Early Years plays a key role in ensuring children with additional needs are meaningfully included within the Early Years environment.
The Head of Early Years will:
* Work closely with the Lead SENCO, Special Education team, therapists, teachers, and shadow staff.
* Ensure appropriate classroom accommodations and differentiation are implemented.
* Support the implementation of Individual Education Plans and student support plans.
* Participate in student case reviews and multidisciplinary meetings where required.
* Monitor the effectiveness of support provided to students with additional needs.
* Promote an inclusive culture where all children are respected, supported, and encouraged to participate.
* Ensure classroom staff understand individual student needs, strategies, and support requirements.
* Support appropriate transitions between specialist and mainstream learning environments.
### Safeguarding, Wellbeing and Behaviour
* Ensure safeguarding and child protection procedures are consistently followed.
* Promote a safe, caring, respectful, and positive Early Years environment.
* Monitor student wellbeing, attendance, behaviour, and emotional development.
* Ensure staff maintain appropriate professional boundaries and supervision at all times.
* Work with safeguarding staff and senior leadership when concerns arise.
* Promote positive behaviour strategies appropriate to young children and individual developmental needs.
### Parent Engagement
* Develop positive and professional relationships with parents and families.
* Ensure clear and regular communication regarding student progress, routines, expectations, events, and concerns.
* Lead parent meetings, informa
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