Geography Teacher
Alperton Community School, Wembley, Middlesex, HA0 4JE80 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Easter Term Start
Closing date
2 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
31 October 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Geography
Working pattern
- Full time: Teachers Terms and Conditions
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS to UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Role
Geography is a very popular subject at Alperton Community School. All students study Geography until the end of Year 9. There are 15 GCSE classes in Year 10 and Year 11. The number of students opting to study Geography at A Level has significantly increased over the last two years. This is an exceptional opportunity.
It will offer the successful candidate a friendly, highly supportive and committed working environment within a culture of success and professional growth. The school offers excellent support for NQTs in their induction year.
The Person
The successful candidate will be an excellent classroom teacher who can inspire and excite students about their learning and possess recent, relevant, teaching and leadership experience. You will have an innovative approach to creating a Geography curriculum that is inclusive to all students and makes good use of ICT. A sound knowledge and understanding of best practice in the accurate assessment of student work is essential.
What the school offers its staff
The Benefits
Continuing Professional Development
Employee Assistance Programme
Cashback Health Benefits
Cycle to Work Scheme
Pension Scheme
Flexible working opportunities
Further details about the role
Please note: applicants may be interviewed before the closing date and we reserve the right to appoint before the deadline.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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About Alperton Community School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1948 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Alperton Community School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@alperton.brent.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 02089022038
We are a large, mixed, 11-18 academy with over 350 students in our sixth form. Due to our increased popularity as a school, we expanded our roll in 2018. Alperton Community School is an inclusive school with a student intake that reflects a wonderfully diverse and vibrant local community. Our students are very well behaved, work hard and are ambitious to succeed. Our most recent Ofsted inspection in July 2021 graded our school as Good "Pupils like coming to school and they enjoy their lessons"; "Pupils can focus because they feel safe"; "Leaders’ expectations of all pupils are high"; "Pupils behave well in school. They focus on their learning in lessons. Pupils follow teachers’ instructions and listen to one another".
Student progress at GCSE and A Level has been above national averages for many years with disadvantaged students performing well above national averages. Our progress 8 score has been consistently “above average”. We also see high numbers of our students’ progress to Oxbridge and Russell Group Universities. Student attendance and the percentage of students who remain in education, employment or training are also well above national averages.
Recent awards include the 2022 Pearson “Making a Difference” Award; the school was recently shortlisted for the TES School of the Year and won the TES Maths Team of the Year. We are also one of only four schools in the country to hold the Platinum Professional Development Mark.
This is an exceptional opportunity. It will offer the successful candidate a friendly, highly supportive and committed working environment within a culture of success and professional growth. The school offers excellent support for ECTs in their induction year.
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