English Tutor
St James School, Exeter, Devon, EX4 8NNThis job expired on 14 October 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
14 October 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
26 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 17.5 hours per week. 3.5 hours per day - Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Fixed term - Until 18th July 2025
Full-time equivalent salary
- Full Time = £24,704
Pay scale
- NJC Devon - Scale Point 8
What skills and experience we're looking for
Job Description:
- To teach English knowledge and skills to individuals and small groups, across a range of ability and ages.
- To enable pupils to make good progress in English by providing suitable tasks that offer both support and challenge.
- To track pupils’ acquisition of specific knowledge and skills.
- To liaise with teaching staff about pupils’ strengths and areas for development.
- To provide individual/small group tutoring sessions for assigned pupils, focusing on specific knowledge and skills.
- To liaise with teachers and the head of department to identify specific gaps for specific pupils and groups.
- To track pupils’ progress and acquisition of the agreed knowledge and skills.
- To utilise the department’s schemes of learning and resources to plan sessions.
- To provide tuition that is appropriate for the individual’s needs and attainment level.
- To use your expertise to support and prepare students for exams.
- To assess any barriers to the students’ progress in English.
- To maintain up-to-date knowledge of the curriculum content.
- To use relevant tutoring methods and materials.
- To deliver video tutorials and facilitate online forums (if required).
- To regularly liaise with teaching staff to provide feedback on pupil progress.
- To keep pupil records and progress reports of individual students securely filed.
- To meet the necessary health and safety requirements for working with children and ensure professional conduct at all times, and in line with school policies.
- To utilise department resources to deliver tutoring sessions to students according to their educational needs and with reference to prior attainment, SEN and EAL as required, striving to ensure equal opportunities for all and no gaps in achievement between particular groups.
- To be familiar with, fully support and reinforce the aims, ethos, policies and procedures of the school with students, staff, parents and other stakeholders where and when appropriate.
- To safeguard children.
What the school offers its staff
St James is a school with an ambitious curriculum, disruption-free classrooms and great learning. Our mission is to empower our students to use their education to become their best selves, to thrive in fulfilling careers and to lead great lives.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Ted Wragg Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and operate in accordance with the Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. All appointments will be subject to a number of safeguarding checks including an enhanced DBS check.
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About St James School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 979 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- St James School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@stjamesexeter.co.uk
St James is a thriving, diverse and ambitious community with 980 pupils. We are an 11-16 mixed comprehensive school that is consistently one of the highest performing in the area. We perform so well because from the moment they join us, we ask our pupils to work hard and be kind. These two behaviours epitomise what we think is important for both pupils and staff alike.
Our school is situated in the East of Exeter on a new, purpose-built site which means we benefit from excellent facilities, including an art and photography suite with gallery, an amphitheatre, a drama studio and a theatre with full rigged lighting and raked seating, a 4G full sized pitch, a greenhouse, allotments and significant school fields.
At St James, we value teachers’ time which is why we have a sensible marking policy for classwork meaning that you are not routinely expected to handwrite feedback to pupils. Additionally, we have an automated system for homework which is planned, set and checked for you. All this saves you time so that you can focus on getting to know your pupils and planning the very best lessons for them. Across EBACC subjects, we have a common curriculum with fully resourced schemes that you simply need to refine for your classes’ needs.
Our classrooms are disruption free as our behaviour system removes pupils who do not follow our lesson expectations. All sanctions are centralised so that you can simply get on with your job: teaching.
We ensure that our students are outward facing and enjoy a full range of experiences and opportunities whilst they are at St James. We help develop open minded, receptive and kind people, who embrace new ideas and change and who enjoy life and want to explore it by experiencing new things. The arts are core to our curriculum and are the beating heart of our school. All students partake in the arts and are given the opportunity to take the full range of arts qualifications at KS4.
More than 70% of our pupils complete the English Baccalaureate, and, as a result, we see our students invited to join elite post-16 programs, such as the Exeter Maths School and the Reach Academy.
At the core of our ambitious learning culture is a broad, knowledge-rich curriculum, which is cohesive, cumulative and effectively sequenced. Our common curriculum is academic, rigorous and challenging, and designed with long-term memory in mind; students’ knowledge, skills and understanding are cemented by frequent and systematic revisiting.
Our curriculum aims not only to provide students with the knowledge and skills to obtain optimum GCSE outcomes but also to develop a love for subjects, acquiring knowledge and skills which set them up for future studies. Through a curriculum which, for us, encompasses every aspect of school life, we are developing our community of young people to have deep agency with their learning: they are curious about the world around them and proud to be learning with us.
We are committed to providing the very best environment for professional growth, believing that this is key to fostering an innovative and a progressive atmosphere. Our colleagues are incredibly committed and passionate about all that they do and are rewarded with bespoke CPD provision, in-house career progression opportunities, together with a relentless focus on staff wellbeing. If you are reflective in your approach and have a desire to be part of a highly successful school improvement team then this is the school for you.
Like Dylan Wiliam, we believe ‘every teacher needs to improve, not because they are not good enough, but because they can be even better’. That’s why our teachers receive weekly coaching sessions so that they can reflect on and refine their practice. We don’t carry our formal, graded lesson observations as we believe our focus should be on helping teachers improve, rather than prove their practice.
Ofsted judged us to be a strong Good in our inspection in 2018. Our results in 2019 saw our students sustain the high level of performance of recent years. Headline figures show that 65% of students left with a grade 9-4 in English & Maths (a ‘standard’ pass) and 42% with a grade 9-5 in English & Maths. 77% of students achieved a 4 or above in English, and 62% a 5 or above, whilst in Maths 70% achieved a 4 or above, and 48% a 5 or above. The school’s strong performance in the Ebacc has also continued.
We value kindness at St James and work to be kind in all of our interactions and engender the same in our students. So, if you like to work hard and be kind and you like your pupils to do the same, St James School is the place for you.
The Governing Body:
The Local Governing Body operates with full delegated authority from the Ted Wragg Multi Academy Trust and is directly accountable to the Trust. The governors understand well their statutory duties to hold leaders to account as well as setting the strategic direction of the academy and ensuring the academy has a sound financial footing. Their commitment is absolute, believing in social justice they bring a rich background of experience beyond education. They are led by a chair determined for the academy to be a first choice for parents and where every child is given the opportunity to fulfil their potential.
Arranging a visit to St James School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@stjamesexeter.co.uk.
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