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Head of Design

Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B73 5PT

This job expired on 23 April 2021 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 September 2021

• Closing date

  23 April 2021 at 9:30am

• Date listed

  1 April 2021

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Design and technology
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Teachers’ Main Pay Range or Upper Pay Range
• Additional allowances:

  TLR 2B (£4,785)

Head of Design job summary

We are looking for a passionate, innovative and dedicated Design Technology subject specialist to lead our Design team across Textiles, Food and Nutrition and Design Technology. We are looking for someone who enjoys sharing their enthusiasm as well as their knowledge with students; someone with excellent subject knowledge, awareness of current developments in the field and a drive to seek and develop new curriculum opportunities.

We offer extremely motivated and high achieving students, supportive colleagues and a wide range of opportunities for professional development. This is a really happy environment in which teaching and support staff work together to provide students with a high quality, broad and balanced education.

Commitment to safeguarding

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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About Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1220 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@suttcold.bham.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01213541479
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sutton-coldfield-grammar-school-for-girls (opens in new tab)

At Sutton Girls, our focus is on providing high quality teaching and learning, personal development and wellbeing within a supportive, aspirational environment. Students are highly motivated, have a thirst for knowledge and a desire to learn. Whilst we have a long history of excellent GCSE and A-level results, we provide students with so much more than mastery of examination syllabuses. Students are encouraged to embrace challenges, apply their knowledge, and build their resilience and independence.

Our students are drawn from across the city of Birmingham, with many travelling long distances to be a part of Sutton Girls. There are over 1100 students in the school, including 270 students in our Sixth Form. We continue to be oversubscribed at Year 7 with six form entry throughout Years 7 to 11; many students also choose to join the school in Year 12. We are fortunate to have great facilities which are well-maintained; these include recently refurbished science laboratories, new classroom block and multi-purpose social space, sports hall and library.

This is an ideal school for you if you want to enjoy teaching your subject, be asked thought provoking questions by students and have time to discuss pedagogy with colleagues. Here you will be treated as a professional; there is a supportive SLT, a peer observation programme rather than formal lesson observations and a regular staff forum. You do not need previous experience of a grammar school setting (either as a teacher or a student). Our staff have a range of teaching backgrounds with many coming from co-educational and/or comprehensive settings.

The strength of the Sutton Girls community has been evident in the way we are communicating and supporting each other through these very unusual times. We have fantastic results (August 2020: 82% of GCSE grades were 7-9 and 55% were grades 8/9, at A-level 85% of grades were A*/B and 55% A*/A) and we continue to reflect on ways we can improve. Teaching and learning sessions are embedded into our staff meetings, we routinely look to develop our current practice. We put growth mind set strategies and Character Development into our day to day activities and seek ways to maintain and develop staff and student well-being.

It was fantastic to welcome the students back to the classroom in September, and then again in March, when we put a great deal of planning into the full re-opening of the School to make sure all students and staff feel safe in their environment. Throughout the lockdowns, we continued to review schemes of work and develop our use of digital technology, particularly Microsoft Teams, to enable us to support teaching and learning remotely. We do this with realistic expectations of the progress students will be able to make whilst working independently and are mindful of the challenges of working from home for teachers, students and families. We continue to promote a love of learning, a positive and resilient approach and a strong sense of community, whether students are in school or learning from home.

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To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@suttcold.bham.sch.uk.

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