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Head of English

Weaverham High School, Northwich, Cheshire, CW8 3HT

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• Start date details

  Wednesday 23rd April 2025

• Closing date

  25 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  12 November 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,650.00 - £49,084.00 Annually (Actual) Plus TLR 1B £11978

Head of English job summary

The Governors of Weaverham High School are looking to appoint Head of English to start Wednesday 23rd April 2025. The successful applicant will be reliable, able to work on his or her own initiative as well as being able to work as part of a team.

WEAVERHAM HIGH SCHOOL Lime Avenue, Weaverham. Cheshire. CW8 3HT |

Please visit our website to find out more about our school values, approach to teaching, support for our staff and of course information about our English curriculum

Enrichment is a key part of our department offer with regular theatre trips, visits and residential opportunities related to the curriculum. The department offers internal writing competitions, we reward reading progress using Accelerated Reader and have had brilliant success in regional and national reading competitions.

The department has a well-resourced curriculum across the key stages with established routines around assessment, revision and home-learning. Every classroom is well-equipped with interactive screens, access to class-sets of chromebooks and google classroom is an established part of our curriculum delivery. Our classes are taught entirely in mixed-ability groupings in each year which aligns with our Challenge for All agenda.

Currently, the department comprises of co-ordinators for key stages 3 and 4 as well as an intervention co-ordinator. The whole-school literacy coordinator, STEAM coordinator and SENDCo are all English teachers along with the Deputy Headteacher. In addition to this, the team has several examiners for Eduqas which is our chosen GCSE specification. We benefit from LSAs who work primarily within English who support in the classroom and facilitate interventions outside of the classroom.

You will be joining and leading the team at an exciting time with the GCSE results in 2024 being our best yet. Pupil outcomes were significantly above national in both attainment and progress. The English department at Weaverham High School consists of experienced and highly skilled teachers who are both full-time and part-time with many holding various Teaching and Learning Responsibilities within the department or school-wide. We have access to a fully staffed and stocked library and reading is an integral part of our department and curriculum.

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 Weaverham High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1165 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Weaverham High School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/weaverham-high-school-northwich (opens in new tab)

Our vision is clear, we want Weaverham High School to be a vibrant, thriving and successful school where every member of our community feels valued, safe and supported to ensure they surpass their potential. We celebrate uniqueness and see individuals. We understand that our pupils have hopes and dreams, challenges and barriers and it is our privilege to celebrate their worth and their potential. We want every child to enjoy their own journey of discovery, acquire a thirst for knowledge, creativity and imagination and develop a love for their learning. We want pupils to leave our school not just with qualifications showing their academic success, but also with the capacity to think clearly and deeply, a desire to act with integrity and to show kindness and empathy to others, and with the character and leadership experience they need to thrive in the world. We will work tirelessly to ensure individual barriers are overcome so pupils are challenged and supported in equal measure. Our desire is to nurture talent, ability and ambition with energy, creativity, determination, relentless kindness and high expectations. When we combine such a desire with our ethos of Safe.Ready.Respect you will thrive in our care. 

We have a clear and ambitious vision for school improvement that is woven into the 6 strands that define the Weaverham offer. This offer is underpinned by an’ Ethic Of Excellence’ 5, where the following principles guide our strategy to ensure we are the best we can be:

Study examples of excellence

Build a culture of critique (be kind, be specific, be helpful/listen, reflect, review)

Require multiple revisions

Provide opportunities for public presentation

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