Geography Teacher
Outwood Academy Carlton, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S71 3EWThis job expired on 18 June 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
18 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
30 May 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Geography
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): 32.5 hours a week, Monday - Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650 - £49,084
Pay scale
- MPS - UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and inspiring classroom practitioner with a real passion for Geography. We offer an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and motivated team and you must possess the skills and determination to make a significant difference to the lives of our students and share our single goal of ‘students first’. Applications are invited from both newly qualified and experienced professionals.
What the school offers its staff
Humanities at Outwood Academy Carlton
We are a faculty of 8, consisting of 4 History and 4 Geography teachers. We are passionate about the subjects we teach and always put our students first. The Humanities team is situated in the same block, allowing the team to work closely together. We have state of the art smart boards in each of our rooms and access to a central computing area. At Outwood Academy Carlton you will find an extremely supportive and close faculty, who are excited to welcome a new colleague to our team.
Geography:
Geography helps you make sense of the world around you. As a team our goal is to create students who have a curiosity for the world around them and want to make it a better place. As Michael Palin said "geography students hold the key to the world's problems". We love our subject and are keen to develop the geographers of the future.
At KS3 we study a 3 year curriculum, we cover a wide range of exciting and engaging topics such as Why is our World Amazing, How diverse is Africa, to local issues such as Should the council build MU2 and MU3. Fieldwork is extremely important to our department, we are in the process of introducing a range of new field visits and local studies to our curriculum. At GCSE we follow AQA. The units we cover arePaper 1: Natural Hazards, Living World (Hot Deserts), Coasts and Rivers; Paper 2: Urban, Economic Change; Resource Management and Water; Paper 3: Pre-Release and Fieldwork.
Outwood Grange Academies Trust provides a high-quality learning and cultural environment that inspires and motivates children. Whether you are ambitious for progression or determined to be an outstanding classroom teacher, Outwood is the place or you. Leadership development, succession planning and capacity building are major priorities for the Trust as this enables us to facilitate rapid progression for those who want to advance either in the classroom or at a leadership level.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Outwood Grange Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.
Additional documents
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About Outwood Academy Carlton
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1130 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Outwood Academy Carlton website
- Email address
- v.ashton@carlton.outwood.com
- Phone number
- 01226 728494
Outwood Academy Carlton is an Ofsted Good rated, 11- 16 academy based in the friendly, attractive village of Carlton in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The Academy became part of the Outwood Family of Schools in 2016.
In October 2024, Ofsted noted that “students are taught to be ‘good human beings’ as part of the ethos at Outwood Academy Carlton” and that they “have a strong moral code and behave well in and outside of lessons”, including contributing to the wider community. Ofsted also noted that “leaders are determined that all students should succeed and be well prepared for life through a curriculum that develops their knowledge, skills and character”. Furthermore, Ofsted acknowledges that students who regularly attend school make strong progress as a result of the school’s rapid improvement.
We believe that learning should be both enjoyable and enriching. We are innovators with a knowledge-rich curriculum, designed to personalise learning for every student, helping them to reach their potential.
With a holistic view of education, we value vocational, practical, creative and academic excellence equally, creating an environment where every student can shine.
We have won numerous awards as a school and we have been accredited with the prestigious IQM Award, in addition to being an IQM Centre of Excellence, which highlights that inclusion at all levels is of paramount importance to us. We are also delighted to have been awarded the United Against Bullying Bronze Award from the Anti-Bullying Alliance of the National Children’s Bureau which demonstrates our commitment to stopping bullying and improving the wellbeing of our students. We are also very proud to have been awarded Bronze Status by the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health Award.
We work hard to ensure we reduce workload on staff, allowing more time in the classroom to put our vision of students first, raising standards and transforming lives into practice.
Outwood Academy Carlton is situated in North East Barnsley and is easily accessible from South and West Yorkshire, with Wakefield, Sheffield, Doncaster, Huddersfield and Pontefract all within commuting distance. We are just 5 miles from the M1.
Arranging a visit to Outwood Academy Carlton
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email v.ashton@carlton.outwood.com.
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