Principal of Primary and Early Years

ICS Milan is a very special place to learn and a very special place to work. Their truly unique educational offering integrates the very best teaching practices with an innovative design approach to learning. They provide a caring, supportive and secure environment, where children and young people, passionate and curious about the world around them, learn, grow and develop in a creative and stimulating way. Students and teachers work collaboratively; asking questions and challenging the accepted norm in order to find concrete solutions to complex problems. Enquiry based teaching, computational thinking and research-based learning form the bedrock of their pedagogy. It is this pedagogy which runs as a continuum through their curriculum: from their youngest learners, who follow the EYFS framework, through the primary IPC and Cambridge Primary Programme and onto the IB MYP. Their curriculum enables students to gain a breadth and depth of knowledge and to flourish intellectually, physically, emotionally and ethically.

Within a safe, caring and supportive environment each student’s uniqueness is nurtured and celebrated. At ICS Milan, every student’s wellbeing, happiness and social development is as important as the achievement of academic goals. By providing interesting and varied learning opportunities they aim to instil in their students a natural desire to discover and learn so that they gain a knowledge of the world in which they live and an appreciation of a global culture. 

ICS Milan teaches creativity, responsibility, respect, diversity, compassion and shared values. Students are invited to develop a sound knowledge base and to reflect on and reassess their surroundings from a variety of perspectives. The school’s teaching approach stimulates each developmental and learning phase of every child by placing respect for others and ourselves at its centre. It also encourages students to develop interconnection between the different areas of knowledge. 

ICS Milan is recognised as Scuola Paritaria: the school adopts the national recommendations for the curriculum issued by the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR), allowing the students to achieve the same qualifications as a state school. The school works closely with an expert consultant and former Italian Head Teacher to ensure that they fully meet the requirements. Their Italian and non-Italian teachers plan and teach collaboratively to offer the highest standard of blended learning to their students. 

Since 2017 ICS Milan has been a proud member of the Globeducate network and has five sister ICS schools in London, Paris, Nice, Côte d’Azur and Rome. Globeducate operates in more than 55 international schools in Europe, North America and Asia, with more than 25.000 students from over 60 different countries. This membership allows their students to participate in international exchanges and events organised by the Globeducate schools group.

The Executive Principal is seeking to appoint a Principal of Primary and Early Years who is an experienced, compassionate and dynamic leader. The appointed person will have a growth mindset, an innovative approach to education and able to develop open and trusting relationships with their team and the school community. The expectation is that they will provide stability, embed outstanding practice and continually improve the quality of teaching and learning throughout the early years and primary settings.